How to Prepare for Next School Year

Color and Decorate Black and White Station Games and Materials  The students love to color with markers (they don’t get to use them very often in class) and help out around the classroom. 

Organize New Station Materials into Plastic Bags  I often have a growing pile of new station activity materials that I threw in the file cabinet throughout the year for easy storage and access. During the last days of the year, I take this pile of games and task cards, laminate them, and organize them in my math station storage area. 

3. Organize, Store, and Label Manipulative With the students’ help, I use the last few days of school to reassemble student sets of manipulatives, like the numbered tiles for the tiling tasks, and reorganize them into their labeled tubs and plastic shoeboxes.

4. Inventory School Supplies Like many other teachers, I always buy a lot of school supplies during the back-to-school sales. Before I leave for summer, I count the remaining items like my specially-colored folders, spirals, and composition notebook

Prepare Activities and Materials for the First Week of School Raise your hand if you are restricted to how many copies you can make each year? Me too! Since I typically have copies left during the last month, I use my remaining copies or copy center budget to prep some of the materials that I need for the first week of school and for those first introductory parent events.

Create a Substitute Box At the end of the school year, I always have several stacks of papers that I did not use during the year (I always copy more than I need for each week just in case I need an extra assignment or two).

Refill My Puzzle Box and  Enrichment Station At the same time that I am using up my copies, I replenish my puzzle box and prep it for next school year. I also begin gathering materials for the first math menu so that after it is introduced to the students, the materials are ready to go.

Decide On My Focus for the  New Year As part of my own professional development, I always decided on my new focus at the end of the school year. This gives me an opportunity to pack a box of books and materials that I want to take home and review over the summer in order to hit the ground running when I return in August.

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