Organize Your Theme Papers 2 Ways
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I’ve been organizing a bit on my week off {sorry, had to mention it, hehe} and thought I’d share with you. Since I started teaching, I’ve been organizing my theme papers in binders.
I have one binder for each school month {some bigger than others}. In each binder I keep themes that I teach or touch upon during that month.
In my March binder, for example, I have worksheets for St. Patrick’s Day, Women’s History and spring… all copies I’ve acquired through blog stalking or from Scholastic printables. Right now I have the themes separated with paper/binder clips. Eventually I’d like to buy dividers and separate the themes that way.
This method of organizing has worked really well for me. However, this year I don’t have room for all my binders at school, so I keep them at home. I also have way more papers for each theme than I could ever actually do… obviously curriculum comes first, and we just fit themed fun in whenever we can.
So I decided I needed a space-saving and easy way to keep my favorites of the theme activities organized at school:
I plan on popping two of these {medium size} into my desk drawer, and then my favorite theme papers will be right at my fingertips! And my other papers will still be at home in the binders, for safekeeping, or if I ever want to change things up.
What are these boxes, you ask? They are open top file boxes from The Container Store.
Do you have a Container Store near you? If not, you should totally get one. Because it.is.fabulous. I could spend hours and hundreds of dollars in that store!!!
Anywho, the boxes come in a few different sizes, they hold hanging file folders, and they are cheap {$4.99-6.99 each… ON SALE right now for less}.
I bought a pack of 20 hanging file folders at Target for about $7… not too bad. I labeled the folders by theme, pulled my favorite activities from my stockpile of goodies, and popped them in the folders:
One box will be September through January themes, and this box will be my February through June themes. I’m not finished yet, but I get antsy when I want to share something with you guys!
I hope this post makes sense, because I rewrote parts of it several times! I also hope that one, the other, or both of these ideas can help you out in some way! Let me know 🙂
