Happy August everyone! In preparing for the new school year, please remember these simple things to help your school year get off to a great start: 1. Make a to do list and list items by importance. Scratch things off your list when finished. 2. A place for everything and everything in its place. As much as possible try to assign things a spot. My classroom even has a "lost pieces bucket. " This is a bucket where students would put game pieces to games that were already put away/not out at the time. At the end of the year, I'll go through my lost pieces bucket and store things away where they go. 3. Less is more: if you haven't used that set of ABC cards your retired teacher friend gave you two years ago, toss them. We teach in the TpT age. There are so many great resources right at our fingertips... and we can store them digitally! There is no need to lug around things you're not using. 4. Invest in a record keeping book of some sort. There are great ones
