51 Frugal Uses For Your Pocket Chart
51 Frugal Uses For Your Pocket Chart
If you are anything like me, you try to find ways to re-purpose anything you can in your homeschool to maximize your dollar as well as reduce waste. Around here we call this frugal living, and just plain being wise with our finances. I bought our first pocket chart over 7 years ago and it has held up like new. No kidding. I have used it from preschool to now teaching middle school (our oldest enters into 8th grade this summer). I wanted to share with you a list of ways we have used our pocket charts through the years and I really think it will bless you. If you’ve been on the fence on whether you should spend the $$ on a pocket chart or two, I really think this list will help you decide.
These are the two pocket charts we currently own that I made this list based off of:
Scholastic’s Monthly Calendar Pocket Chart and the Daily Schedule Pocket Chart.
1. Tic tac toe
2. Menu Planner
3. Learning state capitals
4. Calendar for classroom and/or household
5. Teaching spelling words
6. Sight word chart for beginning readers
7. Teaching digraphs to beginning readers
8. Teaching blends to beginning readers
9. Great for a chore chart
10. Daily schedule
11. Skip counting
12. Learning the alphabet
13. Learning to count
14. Playing memory games
15. Use as a motivation chart
16. Scripture memorization
17. Multiplication facts
18. Division facts
19. Teaching days of the week
20. Teaching fractions
21. Equivalency charts
22. Scavenger hunt clue holder
23. Flash card holder
24. Weather chart
25. Teaching long and short vowels
26. Teaching dipthongs
27. Teaching homonyms
28. Teaching antonyms
29. Teaching synonyms
30. Teaching nouns
31. Teaching verbs
32. Teaching adjectives
33. Addition facts
34. Subtraction facts
35. Teaching patterns
36. Teaching colors
37. Teaching shapes
38. Teaching phonics
39. Teaching vowels vs. consonants
40. Learning a foreign language
41. Sentence structure
42. Story sequencing
43. Opposites vs. similiar
44. Teaching similies
45. Teaching music notes & symbols
46. Learning the Scientific Elements chart
47. Creative story telling
48. Algebraic equations
49. Basic measurements
50. Word scrambles
51. Teaching about money and place value
I honestly could go on and on and on… But I think you get the picture. I really think this is a great and very minimal investment into your homeschool. It is even great for those who are not homeschoolers as well to reinforce what your child(ren) may be learning at school. I hope this post will help someone who is wondering if a pocket chart is the right fit for their homeschool! Here’s to being frugal!
Tell me how you used the pocket chart to study the states and capitals. We are working on them right now. I don’t have a regular pocket chart, but we do have a large pocket calendar that we don’t really need as a calendar. It has 35 pockets.
So many great uses! I have several pocket charts around and haven’t used them since leaving public school teaching ~ I’m going to have to whip them out and use them with my own kids!
Just went by the Dollar Tree today, and was able to pick up a few pocket charts at a dollar a piece! They have 8 rows that are about 13.5″ long and 2″ tall. I don’t expect the dollar store charts to last as long as your Scholastic charts have, but I’m excited give this a go!
Katina,
That is amazing! I am excited to hear all of the various uses you get out of your new pocket charts! Enjoy!