Drowning in Paper?

Some days I feel like I might be swallowed up in a sea of papers. Here is a quick tip to organize the madness.

  

I used my handy Scholastic points to order a set of teacher binder clips. I love using my points for books on tape, but I splurged on these clips. Scholastic Book Clubs is down for the summer - but I will link when they are back up! (I also found this set of binder clips on LTM's Learning Depot).  I use these clips to organize the paper into manageable stacks.  I find the SEND HOME and TO BE GRADED clips to be the most useful for me. No more am I searching for the papers I need to take home and look through.

These clips helped tremendously, but I still had a few stacks left. Washi tape to the rescue! I added Washi tape to my own binder clips and made clips for papers that are already copied and for papers I am pulling to use next week. I only keep the originals in these clips for reference when I am planning. More on where I keep the student copies in another post.