Hello, teachers! Has the whirlwind of the school year begun for you yet?
Never fear, we here at The Classroom Creative have lined up hundreds of ideas to help you stay organized, creative, and effective this coming school year. Over the next few weeks, we are focusing on all things…
First, we begin with the most important part of setting up the school year: classroom organization. With over 2 million hits on google for this topic alone, we know teachers are starving for ideas.
We’ve honed some of the most inexpensive and easiest classroom organization ideas to implement this school year.
and remember, be kind to your fellow bloggers…
This first post is LOADED with TONS of Free Printables!
Control the pencil chaos with these Pencil Cups via sixth grade teacher extraordinarie Jill @ Controlling My Chaos
{You may want to visit our “how to manage classroom pencils ideas” post too!}
Centers materials/Busy Bags via No Small Potatoes
Organize your read-alouds by month. Genius. via Fern Smith’s Classroom Ideas
Perfectly organized teacher tool box via our shop
Also in RED and LIME!
No-stress fire drill list via Teaching My Friends
“Turn in Work Here” bin idea with free printable
Use duct tape to make plastic ziploc baggies reinforced like The Organized Classroom
Manage those pesky borders via Finally in First
Complete your calendar area with our Days of the Weeks via HERE
Color-code your construction or scrap paper via I Love My 3 Sons
Makeup Folder System via My Life in the Middle
For those readers who return their library books early or late grab this freebie HERE
Organize books, take home folders, or classwork with these personalized file holders from Kindergarten Kindergarten
Front folders for unfinished work via 2nd Grade Sandcastle
Display your student’s indoor recess creations via this idea!
Organize crayons and markers by color with this great idea from Play-Based Classroom
Personalize your students lockers via TCC
A Must for Every Teacher’s Desk via Adventures in Teaching
Binder clip labels! Stars, Animal Prints, or Watercolor! Click the image below for our sampler pack!
Board Supplies Organizing via PreKinders
Keep the kids on task with TCC’s Classroom Jobs!
A boatload of organizational tips from Mrs. G’s classroom via The Fancy Frugal Life
Organize your centers with our editable center labels
Get ready for those new students through out the school year with this idea from Two Things in Common
Book Hospital via The Daily Cafe
Reminders Board made from a dry erase board via Ms. Noble’s Class
Organize your Libraries with our editable library labels via The Classroom Creative
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Happy organizing,
Nicolette & Karen
Great ideas! Thanks – going to use a couple of them.
Thank you for these great ideas! I am definately going to incorporate them into my classroom.
There are some really great organizational ideas on here. I appreciate that you also shared one of mine! I will be trying some of these out.
I use something similar to the new student bags except i use it for birthdays in my class. I fill a bag for each child and some extras. This way i can just pull a bag out and voila. A special day is made.
Love your ideas! I’m inspired to plan the organization of my future classroom!
Thank you, Sue!
Great ideas, thank you for sharing!
Thanks so much for including my fire drill student list. 🙂
I love so many of these other ideas, too!
What an amazing collection of ideas! I love love love them! Thank-you! 🙂
I realize this is a post from a year ago, but I really like the Reminder Board that is labeled as from Ms. Noble’s Class. When I click on it though I am taken to the book repair site with the Daily Cafe. Searching the web has proved fruitless. Any directions to the correct site? Thanks, love YOUR site 🙂
We searched the misdirected link, Elysia, and Ms. Noble’s site is out of bandwith. We’ve corrected the post to reflect that. Thanks for letting us know!
Nicolette
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Classroom Assistant can never be to organized. Love this site thank you!
I’m a budding early childhood educator who needs help with classroom organization. Thanks to the awesome ideas on this site, I’ll be ahead of the power curve when I get to set up my first classroom:) Thank you!!
Glad we could help! Stay connect we are currently rounding up more classroom resources.
Great post! Been reading a lot about setting up a classroom. Thanks for the info here!
Great post! Love all the information on staying organized and setting up a class room. Tried to visit Too Things In Common. Can not get their link to connect
I love all the organization ideas. So very helpful. I love the custom labels also. Love the read along by months. Now that my classroom library is all set up, I needed a way to keep track of my books. I found this really terrific web app that replaces the cumbersome task of using a spreadsheet or word document for keeping track of books and textbooks. It’s called My Teacher’s Library and with it I can catalog all of my books, keep track of who has my books and when they are due to be returned, and it also creates a unique label for each book. Now there is no question as to whose book it is. I used an inexpensive barcode scanner to scan the ISBN number from the barcode or you could enter it manually. Immediately the book details were returned and stored in my account. I can use my smartphone or tablet to check books in and out, and I can customize emails to remind students/teachers when the book is due or overdue. I can also add documents and assign other resources (like lesson plans) to each book’s detail page, which is such a timesaver. Their website is https://myteacherslibrary.com.