my daughter just started kindergarten and a mass quantity of projects and schoolwork is coming home...problem? i feel guilty throwing her "prized" work away!! do you save or toss? or only pick a few special things to keep?????
2006-11-04 05:26:47 · 19 answers · asked by ? 4 in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Grade-Schooler
I keep most of my daughters papers. My friend gave me a great idea.When she has a nice size pile of "papers",she uses her binding machine, you can get one for like $30.00 at most office supply stores. She binds them with a cover page. They are easy to store that way and your child can look at the book anytime!
Good luck!
2006-11-04 23:30:21 · answer #1 · answered by momof3 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
My mom *ALWAYS* saved my two older sisters school work. My advice is, if you are planning on having more kids in school, keep all the work from the elders so that the younger children can use them as reference tools when the time comes for them to do the work as well. Also, there may be times later in your childs education when they may want to include their early work to show how much they have grown up. My mom saved most of my sisters work until they were out of highschool, but started throwing it away as i passed the grades that the work was from. I am the youngest child in my family. I would say saving most of her stuff in big storage bins would be the best thing to do.
2006-11-04 05:32:58 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
My mom has saved all my stuff. Save the stuff from kindergarden, because it only happens once. After the child gets in 5, 6, and 7th grade there are reading logs and things that are weekly. Throw that junk away, because when the child is an adult they won't want to see it again. Just weed out any messy or crumpled papers, and put the stuff in a plastic box to go into a closet or atic. Let them decide what they want to keep in highschool.
2006-11-04 05:32:18 · answer #3 · answered by No Name 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I scrapbook. I take a picture of the artwork my kids do, and make a fabulous (simple) layout in their albums for each year of school. Now I'm getting into having 100%'s and A+ papers. .. I can't take pics of every math test or cursive writting ditto. .. I don't know what I'm gonna do.
But kindergarten has some CUTE artwork. Take pics of it and put it in an album. You'll have it forever, you can journal about it ("Katie loves kitties, so it's only natural that she'd make the thanksgiving turkey look more like a cat than a bird!") etc. Keeps the life in it. Happy scrapping!!!
2006-11-04 06:00:26 · answer #4 · answered by misskenjr 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
At some point you will have to prioritize. Especially if you have many children in the future. Having been through this (our kids all went to French lycées and brought home enormous amounts of stuff year after year, and it's years later and we are still loath to dispose of much of it but they don't want it either . . .) I strongly advise you to do some triage now: have a primary folder of the best representative stuff that you know you will want to keep because it expresses originality and a box for the kind of stuff where they just fill in the blanks, connect the dots, and paste things.
Our youngest got involved in ceramics and our mantle still has more than a dozen pieces. Which still makes her feel good now she's in her second year of postgraduate medical school.
2006-11-04 05:35:51 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
By the time my kids were in 2nd grade I had saved certain special things and those special things filled up 2 black garbage bags. SERIOUSLY. I hated throwing them away but I dug through and found 5 each that I could incorporate into a their scrap books. If you're finding yourself packed to the brim with these papers get some magnets for your fridge and allow your child to pick one they are proud of and you pick one too. Hang it on the fridge for a week and then trade it out. After your child has "showcased" her best work, she wont be upset about it going in the trash. It works for me and it shows them that I'm proud of their hard work.
2006-11-04 05:31:20 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'll be 21 next month. My mom still has boxes of special projects I did when I was younger. She kept things like books I made, poems, etc. With my papers, She kept a few from each grade. My kids haven't started school yet so i can only give the example of what my mom has done.
2006-11-04 05:30:29 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
We have a bin in their rooms that they put their school work in when they come home. About once a quarter I empty out the bin and decide which things I really want to keep and trash the rest. Also, sometimes I scan things into the computer or take a photo of it.
2006-11-04 11:01:45 · answer #8 · answered by momma2mingbu 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have 2 children, one of which is in the 1st grade this year. I do save some of their work, mainly my youngest. I pick what I think is the cutest or that she put the most work into. I dont have tons of stuff just enough to fill a couple of folders.
2006-11-04 06:37:58 · answer #9 · answered by pyxiegyrl 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I pick a few and then the rest goes in the bottom of the garbage pail. You think you have a mass now, wait a couple more years and you'll be up to your knees if you keep it all.
Also you can give some to grandparents or aunts
2006-11-04 12:28:56 · answer #10 · answered by Marge Simpson 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋