First things first: I organized my posters! How happy it is to know that I actually have posters waiting for next year now as opposed to this previous year when I would be running around town trying to find things for each new holiday or subject.
Now they are all nicely organized in bags based on subject or holiday. I also threw out posters that I had grabbed from other teachers but ended up never using.
Here's a tip I learned through doing this....Well, two tips. One, save the bags when you buy posters! They come in handy for organizing in a big box. Two, tape the bottom of the box.....I picked mine up and well....it spilled a little. Not all of it but enough to cause me to waste a few minutes putting it back together and taping the bottom. Perhaps I didn't fold it correctly to begin with, but tape definitely made it more secure!
Next, I organized all my bulletin board letters and little displays in a binder. I used page protectors to slide the papers and letters into. Then I used dividers to divide it up according to subject so it will be easy to locate next year.
Then I organized my cabinets. First up, my teacher books cabinet. I organized them into nice neat piles and placed the binder for each subject (packed full of things I used this year) on top of them. It looks ready to go for curriculum planning now!
After going through my cabinets and throwing out any old things from previous teachers I have a lot of nice storage space now! I bought plastic bins (Wal-Mart has the best prices around for bins, fyi) to organize by subject and/or unit. This is the result!
I ended up with quite the pile of trash....But I don't want to hold on to things just for the sake of it so out it goes if it wasn't a use or won't be a use.
And now a nice clean, organized classroom is waiting for me in August! :-)
Isn't an organized classroom the best feeling in the world. That was serious time well spent. :)
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