Mt. Pleasant Classical Academy

Last week I visited Terri, an organizational Queen, and of course admired her homeschool room with all its little boxes, drawers neatly organized — ah, it was beautiful. Everything so neat and tidy and in its place! Long time readers of my blog know that Terri helped me organize our school room. A great space that has worked well for the last 9 months or so.

Lately I’ve been feeling that we have lost time searching for pens, pencils, glue sticks, … you name it they all seem to either be someplace else or are in a tangle of messiness. And then there’s the lost time looking for papers, and wondering where to file them. I really hate wasting time searching for ‘things’.

I complained in my head about how I lacked a desk but decided that it would not deter me, somehow, someway I too would organize. So, of course I lifted ideas from Terri’s space. The first part of the plan was to obtain a two drawer file cabinet and a multi-drawer tower. Unfortunately these items do not fit under the school table, aka my desk by the guys in the family, but no, I won’t call that table my desk even if it is where all my papers and other stuff lives.
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The tower’s drawers are wide and deep and at first I tried just putting pencils in one drawer and pens in another, but realized that there was wasted space. I hate wasted space plus I had other items I wanted in these drawers.

MK and I headed to WalMart to check out drawer dividers and little boxes. Oh my! The prices were outrageous and I needed so many of these things. I asked MK to use his origami skills to make me a few little boxes. Aren’t these cute! Four little boxes to hold my black permanent markers, my colored permanent markers, blue pens and one for black pens.

These boxes hold my wet-erase pens, erasers, sticky’s, fountain pens and calligraphy pens.

The last drawer has dry erase pens, one for thin width-pens, and another box for wide width pens.

Ahh, organized Everything in its place and a place for everything!

MK then made a food chain using his origami skills to make a large fish head eating a smaller fish head, on and on and on. Great model of a food chain and such a creative kid!