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TIPS FOR ORGANIZING
ATTENDANCE, SEATING CHARTS,
LUNCH COUNT, AND OTHER PAPERWORK
Attendance/Lunch Count Board
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a filing cabinet right inside your classroom
door. On it, put the students' names written on 3 inch x 3 inch
construction paper squares. Put magnets on the back of the squares. Make
the boys' squares one color and the girls' another. If you don't like
the construction paper squares, try using craft sticks instead. You
could also use clothes pins so you could clip a note or reminder for the
student to it. Beside the names, use masking tape to divide a space into
two squares. Then post this question at the top, "Are you eating a
school lunch?" As soon as the kids walk through the door, they put
their name in the appropriate square. In this way, you can take
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| If you
don't want to use a filing cabinet, use small nails
to hang up a square of carpet on a board titled
"Morning Board." Buy the calendar pieces
that have the numbers on the front of each piece.
Laminate the squares, then put a small piece of Velcro
on the back of each one. As the students walk
past it as they come in the room, they take down
their ticket and place it in the appropriate
container sitting right below (buying lunch, brought
lunch). The first one finished with the first
activity of the morning can put them back. There a
variety of calendar squares, so you change them each
month to go with the season or holiday.
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Ideas for Seating
Charts
Attendance Podium
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a podium to keep all of your attendance materials,
such as attendance sheets and seating charts. This is
especially helpful if you have more than one class of
students. You could also use a different colored
2-pocket folder for each class in the podium. Keep
items for each class in the appropriate folder. Such
items include papers to return, reminders of overdue
library books, make-up work for absentees, seating
chart, and class roster.
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Class Notebook
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large 3-ring binder with enough individual pocket
folders for each student. These are made for
notebooks and have a pocket on both sides. Attach
a colored tab to each folder and insert a student's
name. Each student has a pocket folder for holding
all correspondence, medicine approvals, field trip
permissions, excused absences, copies of notes to
parents, he latest copy of the student's report
card, etc. This keeps all the paper work from
accumulating on your desk or in the drawers. You can
also put one extra pocket folder for all your
receipts for items you buy through the year for
income tax purposes.
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