Organizational Skills
for Home
=> Sort through all their clothes and take inventory of
what they have, what can be given away and what they might need. Set up
a daily or weekly "clothes wearing" and laundry day system.
=> Sort through all their toys and take inventory of
what they have, what can be given away and what they might need. Set up
a toy storage area and a toy rotation system if needed.
=> Sort through all their desk/school items and take
inventory of what they have and make a list of what'll they will need
for the upcoming school year.
=> School Papers: Decide what school papers and/or art
work will be kept and where. These types of papers are considered
mementos. Set up a box or file for each child. I recommend placing an
under bed storage unit for these papers to be placed into...easy and
convenient. Also designate a place for your children to place paper work
that the teacher has sent home for you to read or review.
=> Its
helpful to assign a bin, basket or shelf exclusively for school
correspondence and lesson information that is near the hub of activity
before school. In our house, its a 1 wide x 1 deep x 9 high shelf
near the kitchen. Items in this cubby have changed from elementary
school through high school. The basic items that always remain in this
area are the school lunch menus, lunch slips for ordering weekly lunches
and the school calendar. During the time of year when school pictures
arrive, but before find their final home, the pictures stay in this
bin. It makes them easy to find when family is visiting and we want to
share the photos. Items such as newspaper articles, awards or
certificates go into this area for staging. They stay there until I put
them into their scrapbooks. If a concert, play or field trip is coming
up, the notices go into this bin. They stay there until the event is
over and we can recycle the paper.
-- Ellen Kambol, FSII
of Windy
Hill Associates
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=> Set up a desk top stand with hanging folders
that might be labeled:
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Homework
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Permission Slips
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Parties/Directions
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Events
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School Calendar/Menus
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| => Place a
tickler file, dated filing system, in your stand for date related
materials. This is a valuable tool you will wonder how you've lived with
out! |
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Organizational Skills
for School
Young Children:
=> Designate an area for young children to store their
"outer wear", such as coats, hats, etc and a shelf or cubbie to place
their "extra" stuff or book bag in, thereby freeing up space at their
desk.
Teachers:
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=> Set up a desk top stand with hanging folders
that might be labeled:
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| => Place a
tickler
file, dated filing system, in your stand for date related materials.
This is a valuable tool you will wonder how you've lived with out! |
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