Clutter-Free Classroom Project: Week 2

Week 2 Prompt: What is your plan for decluttering your classroom?


Ah...  What is my plan exactly?  


Clutter-Free also posted these three thoughts

• What do you plan to do with your "stuff" that you no longer want?
• What are your rules for purging?
• What have you gathered to make your decluttering task easier?

A lot of my problem is that I have a lot of stuff that no one will need.  Why do I need to keep file folders that already have student names on both sides.  What on earth can I still do with it all?


The Plan:

• ::Throw away:: old file folders, the previous teacher's bag of junk (I'm sorry, but I found a bag of his old socks.  Gross.) and paper files that I no longer need.
• ::File:: Any original copies, example projects, student copies, etc.  I tend to throw all my original copies into a file basket and keep them there until it overflows.  I have several groups of these papers.  Problem... thanks to my double move, I have no clue where some of them are!  Home? School?  Garage?
• ::Organize::  My teacher books and teaching materials.  I need to get bins or tubs for Languages Arts/Social Studies and Math/Science.  I'll admit that I'm a teaching book hoarder.  I have a box for just Language Arts and Social Studies sitting in my garage.  I went to the Teacher Created Resources Sale today about bought 10 more math practice books.  However, I know a lot of you have been teaching the same subject for years and can purge the unnecessary subjects.  I can't...  These were been my last four assignments...
• 2011-2012: 7th Grade Language Arts/ Social Studies - then transfered to 7th grade Math/Science
• 2010-2011: 7th Grade Language Arts/ Social Studies
• 2009-2010: 6th, 7th, 8th Grade Math Intervention
• 2008-2009: 6th Grade Language Arts, Math, Social Studies, Science
• Yeah, I have no clue what I'll be up to next year!
• ::Bring to Work::  There is about half my classroom that's being stored in my garage.  You'd cry if I took a picture of my garage.  I did take a picture of what's in my office at home.  It all needs to be reunited!

Reunited and it feels so good!

So that's the grand plan for now!