Managing Literacy/Math Work Stations

I’ve had several questions about how I manage my Literacy Work Stations lately, so I thought I would explain with some pictures: I used Debbie Diller’s LWS signs from the back of her LWS book.  I shrunk them down to about 1/3 of their size (3x5ish) and laminated them.  I then put them into the [...]

Sticks

This is how I choose names so that everyone gets a chance to find something in our Morning Messages (and whenever else they are needed).  I take each child’s picture on the 1st day of school, laminate it, and then punch them out with one of my Stampin’ Up! circle punches.  I tape them on [...]

My New Bookcase!

Okay, so the bookcase itself isn’t new and neither are the books on it, but the way it is set up sure is!  My school is currently an IB (International Baccalaureate) candidate school, so we think in terms of the six IB themes instead of our old themes.  I used to have them filed by [...]

Moving things around…

I’ve recently moved some things around in my classroom to make room for new things on the walls.  I’ve moved my name wall and our anchor charts.  Here are some pictures showing what they look like now: I’m excited because I was able to free up some space on our front board so that I [...]

Clean Shelf

In order to get the space cleaned off to store my Math Work Station tubs, I had to do some cleaning.  I moved a wire two shelf shelf off the counter as well as all my Science materials (I found a better place for them). The wire shelf had all my buckets of Reading A-Z [...]

Math Work Station Storage

Here is how I store my Math Work Station tubs.  I have a pocket chart where each tub number is listed along with 1-2 students’ names.  They find what number tub they are working with that day and then find it along this shelf.  Because the tubs get put back in a different order each [...]

Math Work Stations Organization

I’m in a mood to organize things lately…I like to start getting things cleaned up near the end of the year so that my new year will be uncluttered and happy!  Ask me how that’s going the 2nd week of January!!   I came up with a way to organize my Math Work Station materials [...]

New Student Checklist

Here is a checklist I use when a new student enrolls in my classroom.  I also use it at the beginning of the year so that I can see what things I need to label.  At the beginning of the year, I do not print one of these for each student, I just use it [...]

Organizing Supplies

I had a question about what goes in the shelves that I keep at the end of each of the tables: In the top part of the shelf, we store our paper baskets and crayon baskets.  The crayon basket sits inside the paper basket. The second part of the shelf down, we store our binders. [...]

Literacy Work Station closet

I thought I might give you a before and after look at my Literacy Work Station closet.  For some reason (I think I was possessed that day) the Friday before Spring Break I decided it would be a great time to clean out my Literacy Work Stations closet.  I got rid of a few things [...]