Teacher Resources and Classroom Management - Keeping Students Organized

Keeping my students organized

I have 1" binders that I request at open house each year. I provide the students with sections that they are to keep all their things in. In the front I store 3 plastic sheet protectors. The sheet protectors consist of: weekly behavior sheet (sent home on Mondays), Reader's Theater scripts that we perform weekly, and Weekly Newsletter. Behind the sheet protectors the students have two 3-hole folders that are labeled Home and Return to school.

The students file their papers that stay at home in the orange folder and the papers that need to be returned to school the next day in the yellow. Their school agenda with their homework, spelling list and teacher daily comments is also placed in this folder. This helps the student and parent stay organized and also saves me a lot of time from having to hunt for lost papers. There are never any loose papers hanging out in desk in my classroom. Everything has a place.
Submitted by: Michael Miller mrm4mail@email-removed