How I Organize My Math Curriculum Binders

If you have been a reader for any amount of time, you know that I love my binders!! When Indiana decided to adopt the CCSS, I started organizing my math binders to match those standards. There were so many CCSS resources out there, that I had no problem finding organization tools. I even did a post about several resources that could be used.

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Taming that Paper Pile

For years, I would end up with a pile of ungraded papers that was a mile high.  This year I finally found what works for me!

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How I Organize My Daily Work

As most of you know, I teach two different grades. I need a way to keep all my papers organized and I think I finally found the way!

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How I Store and Organize My Task Cards

I've posted a couple of different ways that I have stored my task cards. You can find those posts  HERE and HERE. I hope this is the last time that I change things around.  I've had it like like this since the end of last school year and it seems to be working. Fingers crossed....

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How I Organize My Informational Text Chapter Books

As you probably know by now, I don't teaching reading or ELA so I don't really have an organized library. I just have chapter books that the students can check out on a shelves. I do have quite a collection of non-fiction books and I finally took the time to get them organized. I wanted the students to be able to find the books they were looking for a bit easier so I made labels. I was going to put the labels on the front of the shelf that the book were on, but I soon realized that they wouldn't stay on very well because the edge was rounded.

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Class Information Center

So I found this cart down in the basement at school and knew that I wanted it in my classroom. I used it last year, but wanted to spruce it up a little bit.  I was in Michaels getting some supplies and thought I would get some contact paper to cover the ugly woodgrain on it. They only had clear, but I spotted the corkboard and thought that would be a neat idea. 

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How I Organize My Mini Anchor Charts/Posters

I make posters for everything! I hang them in the front of my room for the students to use as a reference tool.  

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How I Store the Colored Paper for INBs

 I recently shared how I store all my interactive foldable graphic organizers that I use in our notebooks. Doing all those organizers means that I need a lot of colored paper. I try to buy paper whenever I see it on sale. I can get pastel paper from my district, but I like to have a variety of colors (probably stems from my years of scrapbooking, LOL!)

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How I store my Interactive Notebook Contents

I've done interactive notebooks for awhile now, but have just recently gotten my graphic organizers organized! I've been putting my graphic organizers into sleeves that fit into a binder.

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How I Store and Organize My Math Games

I've already posted how I organize my task cards (several times, LOL!), but I wanted to share how I organize and store my math games.  So many teachers have these drawer sets that they use for different purposes and I chose to put my math games in them.  The one on the left is from Michaels and the larger one on the right is from AC Moore.

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How I Store a Class Set of Colored Pencils

I found THIS post by All Things Pink and Crafty and knew that is how I wanted to reorganize my colored pencils.  I often need the students to just use a few colors on a project we are completing and it was taking too long for my students to find the color they needed when they were mixed together. Separating the pencils by color meant that I could just give each color to a student and have them quickly passed out the needed colored pencil. It has saved us a lot of time.

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How I Store Student Data Folders and Weekly Reports

I think most of us have to keep student data folders nowadays. Our district also wants us to give out weekly reports to the students. I keep both of them in these storage crates from Ikea. They are the perfect size to fit into the space that I have and stack very nicely.

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How I Organize My Task Cards - 2nd edition

Back in July, I blogged about THIS organizational system. I quickly realized that system was not going to work. I had too many sets of task cards and not enough room for them all. I was off again in search of the perfect way to store my cards.  After shopping at many stores, I found what I hope to be the perfect solution (although I've already had to reorganize it and condense some of the drawers).

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How I Display Student Work

There are two places that I display student work. 

The first spot is in my classroom.  Several years ago, I got these clipboards in a scrapbooking kit at Joanne's. They are perfect to hold two student papers.

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How I Organize My Task Cards

One thing that I would like to implement more of this coming school year is task cards. I've started making some of my own, but have also gotten several from all the wonderful sellers on TpT.

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How I Store My Student's Science Journals

My students have journals for math, science and social studies. They keep the math and SS journals with them, but I store the science journals in the classroom.  

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How I Store Classroom Computers

I had been looking for a new way to store my computers that I got from Donors Choose (the lovely pink one was my donation, the girls always want that one!).  I had inherited several of these wonderful wooden organizers from my mother who had retired from teaching and they were the perfect size to fit the netbooks.  I found THIS pin last summer and decided to use it to organize the cords.

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How I Display and Store My Standards Posters

I fell in LOVE with THIS pin last summer and just had to do it in my classroom. Since we have to display our standards, this was the perfect solution.  The black background is a sheet from Walmart that I cut up and taped to the filing cabinets.  The border is MagnaBorders from Learning Resources. I put magnets on the back of the posters and they work wonderfully!

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How I Deal with No Name Papers

It's a short and sweet post this week.  I got tired of trying to figure out who owned the no name papers, so I set up this tray.  I told the students that if they didn't get a paper back when we passed them out on Mondays, they better look in the tray!

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How I Deal with Make-Up Work

I'm in an elementary school that is semi-departmentalized so I have two sets of students that happen to be different grade levels (very small school).  I needed a way to organize the student's make-up work since I couldn't just leave it on their desks. I came up with this idea.

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