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Since this is my first year teaching 1st grade I wanted to document my journey as well as give others some ideas that may inspire them in their own classrooms!

Kids start back to school August 14th, it is only 3 1/2 weeks away and I can't believe how quickly this summer has FLOWN by! Right now my mind is just spinning with ideas for my classroom. Unfortunately I can't get into my classroom until August 5th to start setting up and getting organized. In the meantime I am getting ideas and craft projects together. 

The first thing I have done to get ready is organize my worksheets. When I taught 3rd grade I put my worksheets in folders and put them in a filing cabinet. The problem I had with that though was it wasn't very organized and it was hard to find things quickly. So, I decided that I was going to try a different organizational method. I bought a ton of sheet protectors and placed each worksheet into a sheet protector (If I had more than one copy and I would just put them all in the same protector). I then bought large binders and separated the worksheets into categories. ELA, Math, Science/Social Studies (I combined these two since I didn't have a lot - I need to find more! lol), Beginning of school, holidays, and themes (specific book themes or author themes). I had to buy several heavy duty binders but I will say I am excited about this idea because I can already see how much easier finding worksheets will be! Now, you can color code your binders which would be great and colorful but since I didn't want to pay a ton of money for colored binders I got plain white and then used sticky labels and labeled the binders. Eventually I hope to go to colored binders because they will look so much nicer, but right now this will do. 

I got really lucky. I subbed for a pre-k class at the end of the year last school year. I found out about my job while I was still working. I had a lot of teachers bring me things they no longer needed/wanted. I got tubs, worksheets, posters, pocket charts, you name it that I will need to teach 1st grade! 

I also have some crafts I have worked on and I will take pictures and post them as soon as I can!