MTSS Monday: Organization

Do you thrive on classroom chaos and find order in disorder?

Do you believe there is a place for everything and everything belongs in it's place?

I lean toward the "place for everything" mentality, especially at work.  During our last planning day, I spent 4 hours in my classroom closet getting organized (it was a disaster, I'd like to blame it on my students but they don't go in there).  I do this every 2 years or so.  Stuff piles up and I need to change the way I store it so that I can find it/get rid of things I don't use anymore (I hate clutter!).

Since I've found, created, and bought (thanks Pinterest and TPT!) multiple reading and math activities for almost every skill I teach, it made sense to put them all in Ziploc bags and group them into magazine holders.  I've been collecting the wonderful array of magazine holders in each picture from the Tar-jay dollar spot :).

Reading activities

Math activities

As you can see I labeled the front of each box and grouped my games and activities according to the labels.

This has made MTSS (formerly RTI) a lot simpler for me.  Games and activities are easy to find and already bagged and prepared to go into each groups bucket.  It literally cut my planning/prep time in half.

Tier 1-enrichment, Tier 1-practice, and Tier 2-remediation buckets containing MTSS activities.

Beyond MTSS, it's made literacy and math centers a breeze as well.  I might be married to this plan for more than 2 years (I hope)!  It took me a while to find, print, laminate, cut out, and prepare all of these activities but it was time well spent.

My go-to places to find new games and activities are:

Pinterest

Teachers Pay Teachers

Blog Hoppin'

Freebie-licious

My questions for you are:

*How do you stay organized?

*Where do you find your games and activities?

100th Day!

Today was our 100th day of school!  Unbelievable!

I've been down and out for the last 5 days due to fire ants invading my throat and stealing my voice so today was a last minute scramble to pull together activities.  I found some oldies and added a few, new pinspired goodies.

Check out a few of the 100th day projects my students created!

Projects on display in the hallway!

My students created a fair amount of UNIQUE projects this year.  I'm so impressed!

This afternoon we did a 5 center rotation.

Build a structure using 100 cups!

Writing: When I'm 100 years old....

"I will yell at people to stop all that racket!"

Roll to 100!

Writing: If I had $100....

Decorating 100 Day crowns!

This morning I got a sweet gift!  It's full of all kinds of wonderful things, the cough drops came in handy this afternoon!  The chatter teeth with the monster feet are my favorite!

Finally, I wanted to share a few of the worksheets we used today.  These worksheets are pretty common but I couldn't find them this morning when I needed them so I just threw these together.  Follow this link to grab them for free if you like them!

Super Sunday Sale

Happy Super Bowl Sunday!  

Who are you pulling for?

I'm more of a college basketball fan (GO HOOSIERS) than anything else but I was born in Maryland and have family up there so I'm rooting for the Ravens tonight!

If football isn't your thing, maybe shopping is?!?!  

TODAY ONLY I'm throwing a huge sale in my TpT store!  Use the promo code: SUPER to get 28% off everything in my store!

Here are a few products I'm currently using!

Time for Fishing: Games and Worksheets 

In this 55 page packet you will find 5 games and activities for time to the hour, the half hour, and every 5 minutes.  There are also 6 colorful posters and a build your own clock activity!

Beginning, Middle, & Ending Sound Activities

I have been using these activities to remediate several students during MTSS (formerly RTI).  They LOVE the hole punch pages :).  In this packet you will also find 5 different activities to use when teaching/remediating beginning, middle, and ending sounds.  

Happy shopping!