One of the best things in world is the ability for us to share our awesome materials with the world! I admit, however, that I am a Pin-aholic, blog-aholic, TpT-aholic and a Teachers Notebook-aholic. What does this mean? Well, it means that I see so many incredible resources that I spend a lot of time and money printing , laminating, and organizing these materials. I prefer to store them in a manner that affords me the luxury of using them multiple times. The best method I have found is utilzing paper protectors and laminating things that are more suitable for lamination. For example, I store all of the songs, visual discrimation, and magnet pages, grid pages, and coutning pages in page protectors. When our daughter uses them I let her use a dry erase marker, dry erase crayons, or we place them on a cookie tray and she uses her magnets.
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| Magnet pages are stored in sheet protectors and then used in a cookie sheet with magets. |
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Grid Games and Counting Mats are also stored in sheet protectors so they can be reused.
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| Prewriting practice pages and Same or Different pages are also stored in sheet protectors. She uses a dry erase crayon to "write" or circle the same/different picture. |
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Other items, such as games and puzzles, get laminated and I store all the small pieces in a CLOSEABLE self-adhesive CD sleeve.
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| Couting Mats that call for the child to place a certain number of items depending on the numeral shown are laminated. The counters are stored in a self-adhesive CD holder and the numerals all have velcro. |
Why do I use CLOSEABLE CD sleeves? Because I place everything for a month or theme in a HANGING binder :) All of these binders are then placed in order by month in a file drawer!
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| I also use the self-adhesive CD holders to store miscellaneous items like vocabulary cards and small puzzle cards. |
Lastly, I use resealable 6x9 envelopes to store larger puzzle pieces and larger cards that won't fit in the CD holder.
I hope some of these ideas help you! I would love to hear about some of the ways you store your Tot Packs and PreK Packs :)
