A great summer project for the kids is to go through last year's saved papers. Get out all the saved drawings, completed homework, and other school papers. With your help they can learn valuable lessons in sorting and decision-making. Plus, it is a way to acknowledge the increase in skills through the year.
You'll need at a minimum, a recycle pile and a save pile. Discuss at the beginning with your child some guidelines for deciding which items to keep. For example, the child may want to keep all papers with animals on them and you may want to keep the sentimental ones. Whatever criteria are chosen, use that as a decision-making aid through the sort.
For oversized or bulky art projects it may work best to take digital photos of the items. You may be able to scan artwork and keep the scanned images rather than the oversize art pages. While there maybe too many masterpieces to frame, matting some artwork maybe the thing.
With school starting within weeks, we know there will be many more papers that represent new adventures in learning. Let's be ready by sifting through the old paper.
Do you have suggestions for managing the school papers in the year ahead? We would like to hear your ideas.
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