Organizing Craze!

Lately, I've been organizing like crazy in my classroom and at home. One of the biggest problems that I have is organizing my planning time and all of the copies of papers that I make for the week. I came up with a lovely filing system so that I can keep those crazy papers from being in an unorganized mess on my desk! My Title One and RTI students have book boxes to keep their materials organized and I had a few extra so I put them to work! Check them out below.

I used my cute neon book boxes and labeled them with each day of the week and one with a "To Copy" label. Then I add simple manila folders for each of my groups (you can use for each subject). I also added a few folders in the "To Copy" box to keep those papers organized! Now during my 45 minute planning period I have one task that I do everyday. Monday is create and find day where I create or find worksheets or activities for my lessons for the following week. Tuesday is planning day and Wednesday is my library day (I also work in the library so this is the day that I spend in there). Thursday miscopy day and Friday is when I organize and put all my copied worksheets in there proper folders. This has done wonders for my time management and organization! Then my week is all planned and organized, so I can just walk over and grab the folder that I need for my lesson instead of searching through a pile of papers on my desk! 

Happy Friday!

Melissa

New in School!

This is my first post, so I am super excited to share a few things in my classroom. I'm currently a Title One/RTI Aide and I love my job! It's sort of my transition job from college to a classroom teaching position, and it has given me some amazing experiences to share with fellow teachers. First off, I share my classroom with another Title One/RTI Aide, who I like to think of as my partner in crime! We tried to keep a lot of the same things that are in the classroom so that the transition from the regular classroom to our small groups. I love my calendar bulletin board! It's fun and cute, and it is also a job for one student a day to do. They feel like a vital part of the classroom, especially if it's a Kindergartener who does calendar that day! Also, the schedule that hangs right next to the calendar allows my students as well as other teachers know where I am throughout the day if I'm not in my classroom. This is something that is super helpful for Title teachers/aides to have so that students and teachers can see when they will or will not be at their desks! This is held in a scheduling pocket chart and I just wrote each time on different colored construction paper to make it fun and colorful!

The border and the calendar set is from www.reallygoodstuff.com! I get a lot of my stuff from there! The pocket charts are from www.orientaltrading.com! My super cute alphabet posters above the calendar are from Dollar Tree! I love that place!

Enjoy!

-Mrs. Morel