I'm an Organizational FREAK!

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Let me just start by saying I LOVE anything to do with organization. I love to be neat, tidy, organized, and ready. You could say it's OCD. You may have seen these pictures before on my blog, but this time I'll explain my organization tips. 

So this mailbox organizes SO much! I have a small class so the 6 on the left are my students' boxes. The one on the bottom left holds file folders of everything I use weekly/monthly: clip chart sheets, speller's choice, spelling lists, and monthly writing prompts.

The middle section is broken up into the following: 

Birthday- this is where I keep birthday pencils and certificates

Star student- contains certificates and sticker

Awards- this is where I have misc. awards (like reader of the month or caught you being good), 

Forms- right now it's just "while you were absent" cards that I made on Vistaprint

CAFE- the bottom 2 contain various things I use for CAFE and my Fancy Nancy word wall such as sentence strips, checks for understanding, index card strips, sticky notes, etc.

The last section on the right is open for my students to use and they know exactly how I expect everything to be treated and handled. It includes: 

Construction paper

White paper- basically just printer paper

Loose leaf paper

Stationery- usually themed, last month I had Valentine cards, before that Christmas cards. 

Fancy paper- mostly cute paper from the Dollar Tree. 

Envelopes

Writing task cards- changed out monthly. Right now I have St. Patrick task cards that I included in my unit. 

And you'll notice EVERYTHING is labeled. I love labels. My kiddos must too because they pick, pick, pick at them! By now they know messing with my organization is a big no no. 

Again, LABELS :) These are mostly math manipulatives and have a cute little label. The middle row with the blue lids are my word work bins. All 3 bins have identical items and the students take a bin when they choose "word work" in the Daily 5. They include: dry erase crayons, stamps, markers, colored pencils, Wikki sticks, magnetic letters, and chalk. The cookie trays on the bottom are what the students grab if they are using magnetic letters. 

On top you can see my scissor bin, pencils, dry erase markers, dry erase crayons, dry erase erasers, sticky notes, index cards, writer's checklist, and editing pens/pencils.

My library bins are all labeled according to genre. The label also includes a number and the back of each book has a corresponding number. Wow my library stays so organized and clean this way :) 

On my shelf you'll see my teacher binders and papers to file, my CD player and CD's, the students' BEE binders and word study games, and on the bottom are individual book bins. 

Well, I think that's all I have to share right now. My room is so small that I've given up my shoe closet at home to store all my non-essentials like bulletin board materials and craft supplies. On Sundays I grab what I need for the week. If you have any questions about my organizational OCD please ask :)