It's officially summer time and I haven't a clue how I'm going to use up all my time. There is the obvious: blogging, reading, creating, crafting, traveling, and baking. I know it sounds like a lot but I don't think time wise it will take a lot. Well a birdie told me I'm staying in second grade! This makes me very happy. I love my team teacher, I love second graders, and feel like I may have a clue what I'm doing next year since I've already done it once :) YAY!
Now, I am going to give you a peek into my filing cabinets. When I first moved into my classroom I had two filing cabinets JAM packed with stuff. Guess what? None of it was mine. It took me forever to go through it all and decide how I wanted to organize paperwork and use my filing cabinets. Well the verdict? I strongly dislike filing papers into a filing cabinet. Rifling through manilla folders all bent up is not fun when you can't find the one paper you need. However, going to the correct tab in your three ring binder and flipping through the pages like a book is an easy peasy delight. (i'm not sure peasy is a word - you get my gist). That will be another post for another time. So after contemplating and c contemplating I decided to dedicate one entire filing cabinet to math. Math stations, math literature, math posters/charts, etc. How did I organize all the math stuff? I created file tab dividers for every topic (enVision Math's version of chapters) and every SINGLE lesson. I printed my labels cut them up and put them in file tab dividers and into the correct file folder. This has revolutionized my organization, accessing my resources, and seeing where I could use some resources. In my other filing cabinet I have one drawer dedicated to my student files. Any important papers or items helpful for parent conferences etc go into the students numbered folder. Another drawer is my Language drawer. It is organized just like my math drawers. I created labels to go with every language concept we teach in the order we teach it. All my language stations, chart, craftivities, etc. go in the appropriate folder. Having every file labeled with the skill makes it easy to file things quickly as well. Then for my last 2 drawers I have my spelling units organized just like math and language. I also typed up a word list for every chapter and printed them on color card stock and laminated them. This is very helpful for spelling stations and practicing. Here are some pictures I have. The captions give you an annotated version.
Again, another topic folder tab in orange. You can see all the green folders with their own labeled tabs. |
This is the tab behind the above orange tab. It is labeled: 14.1 Building Numbers in the 1,000s |
6 comments:
Such great organization of your file cabinet. I'm jealous!
Yearn to Learn Blog
I absolutely love how you have your math organized in your file cabinet! I am pinning this so I can organize mine the same way! Thank you so much for sharing. :)
Lisa
Learning Is Something to Treasure
wow! you are organized ;) love your red filing cabinet!
Miss Elementary
Great job being organized!! I am your newest follower. I would love to have you stop by my blog sometime.
April
Wolfelicious
Love your organization. I am looking forward to getting organized this summer. I am your newest follower.
Alyce
Mrs. Bartel’s School Family
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