Fall Back into A Good Routine Series: Classroom Organization
The unprecedented time of COVID-19 has thrown us all out of sync from our normal routines and old-standbys. As we try to make sense of it all, creating systems for a new normal can be a huge help. Fall is another season of change, so whether you are still working from home, preparing for school in-person, online, or a hybrid... we have organizing solutions for you to help implement, modify and revamp your work space that can help motivate you to be productive and engaged.
Looking at all this change as an opportunity for growth and new ideas can actually be fun! In this series we will focus on three areas of organization for working and learning:
Dorm Room Organization
Classroom Organization
Office Organization
This second edition of our Fall Back into a Good Routine Series focuses on Classroom Organization.
Whether your children are participating in remote learning, in-person learning, or a hybrid model, the environments in which they learn will be key to success. We will outline some creative and effective solutions to set you and your family up for success for this upcoming school year. Warm, well-run classrooms begin with good organization of materials and space. The attractiveness and appeal of learning areas, storage of materials and supplies, and visual tools greatly impact a child's ability to engage with the space. Many educators consider the physical environment to be "another teacher." And in that sense it can motivate children, enhance learning, and reduce behavioral problems, environment really is an extra teacher.
The first step is to define areas that can be utilized in the classroom or at home, then make a list of supplies that will be needed for each area, lastly determine how you want to display or store those items.
Here are some suggested areas of learning to focus on:
News Desk
Supplies Zone
Cozy Corner
Math/Writing Center
Project/Craft Area
Multi-media Space
News Desk
The news desk will help you manage the calendar, assignments and projects, school-wide events, holidays, upcoming celebrations, weather, temperature, and community and world news. You can also use this space to list daily or weekly learning targets, classwork and homework. Designate a section for your students or children to share either personal or classroom-related updates. Utilize different tools for tracking daily/weekly/monthly assignments and tasks.
Cheeky Checkbox Notepad
3.5"W x 8.5"H to-do list that cheers you on as you move through your tasks. How great is that?
Desktop Calendar Pad
Use our desktop calendar pad to organize, plan and record all of life's projects. It features a lined note space for you to write down all of your notes and to-dos. Pad includes 36 monthly pages.
Garden Party Weekly Notepad
The Weekly Desk Pad includes 52 tear-off sheets to help you map out your week for a whole year. It's the perfect size to keep on your desk as a mouse pad and see your week at a glance.
Notebook Paper Notepad
5.5"W x 8.5"H notepad with a fun illustration of a torn out sheet of notebook paper! 50 sheets
Supplies Zone
The supplies zone is sure to save your sanity. Here is where you provide pencils, pens, highlighters, sharpeners, staplers, scissors, hole punchers, rulers, paper, glue, tape, paperclips, tissue, paper towels, hand sanitizer, a trash can, and general tools.
Time Timer & Time Timer Dry Erase Board
Keep track of your tasks and time using the Time Timer and Time Timer Dry Erase Board. The Time Timer MOD® is a 60-minute visual timer that's portable and easy to use anywhere—from your desk to the kitchen counter. Keeps your work on track by limiting time on each activity. It features an on/off switch for the audible alert, for any time you need to hear the beep or prefer silence and no audible ticking.
Marble Pen Pot
Show your pens the good life with the Marble Pen Pot. With a stylish marble print and a modern shape, even your beaten-up ruler will look like it’s lounging in luxury.
Drawer Organizers
Durable clear plastic trays for your desk drawers. Measure your desk drawers and find the perfect solution to hold all of your office/desk supplies!
Marble & Rose Gold Tape Dispenser
Keep your desk on point and get your homework done! We're all about ensuring that our desk matches our sass.
Marble & Rose Gold Stapler
Keep those papers organized and staple in style with our super chic marble and rose gold detailed stapler. Match your tape dispenser with this stapler. There’s also a matching Marble Pen Holder that will complete the trio!
Bookmark Pen
The combination of the slim design, handy clip and high quality pen refill makes it a perfect tool to bookmark any study book, crossword or novel. Also useful for taking notes and doing crosswords puzzles.
Rifle Paper Co. Pencils
Make your writing assignments enjoyable with these Rifle Paper Co. Pencils! Our floral writing pencil set includes a total of 12 pencils, 3 of each design. These come pre-sharpened and ready to use.
Cozy Corner
During this crazy, uncertain time we all need a place to snuggle up, to reflect, to feel safe and to decompress. Making a spot that invites quiet and solitude will be a welcome addition to any classroom or home work environment. This can be a spot to read, to journal, to listen to music, and/or to practice mindfulness techniques or meditation. (More on this for adults too in our next newsletter that will focus on office organization). If possible, provide some earphones to help filter out classroom or household noise. Use study carrels or decorative screens to block visual distractions. Most importantly make the area feel inviting with comfortable seating and even stuffed study buddies.
Pins Organic Cotton Pillow
Shop our collection of organic and eco-friendly pillows for the best selection in minimal design.
Pins is our modern take on polka dots. The simple pattern will make a nice accent. The original hand drawn design is screen printed with non-toxic ink on 100% natural unbleached organic cotton. This design will look great on your couch, bed, or chair and can easily coordinate with your other pillows. 18" x 18"
Beantown
Buffalo Check Blanket
All blankets are delivered rolled, tied with jute twine, and a letter is placed inside that explains Beantown Blankets mission to give one blanket away to someone in need for every blanket purchased. Deluxe fleece throw blanket on the face side with durable 210 denier, black oxford waterproof on the back. Folds into itself and has attached carrying straps. Super soft, ultra thermal and machine washable.
Noted Reed Diffusers
Noted diffusers are made with VOC-free carrier oil, phthalate-free, quality grade perfume, and responsibly harvested rattan reeds. Once the reeds are inserted into the bottle, the mixture is carried up the reeds, thanks to the carrier oil, just the perfume oil is diffused into the air. Voilà!
Orb Portable USB Diffuser
The portable Orb™ Diffuser is specially designed to be spill-proof, making it ideal for the office, the car or at home, and provides intermittent (blue LED light) or continuous (green LED light) diffusion for up to 4.5 hours using a USB cable. Includes three essential oil wicks.
Math/Writing Center
The subject center can really be quite simple- a table and chair that is a clean slate/uncluttered surface area. If possible you can keep all of the resources, print materials and manipulatives that you may need from time to time in close proximity to grab as needed. You can also post anchor charts, letter and number lines, word walls nearby for easy reference.
Acrylic Slim File Box
Organize your papers and subjects using this Acrylic Slim File Box. It fits hanging file folders to keep your most important papers at your fingertips.
Hanging File Folders
Our bright white file folders keep your work space sleek and inspiring; a perfect complement to our Acrylic File Box to organize all of your school subjects. Set of 10.
Rainbow Page Markers
Rainbow Page Markers will brighten up any dull or dreary notepad, ensuring you never lose your page again.
Project/Craft Area
The project/craft area can be used as a discovery zone and can house all the fun materials like manipulatives, games, puzzles, crafts, instruments and so on... all the things that spark creativity and imagination. Including a spot to display artwork and projects is a great way for children to feel that they are a part of their environment and to take pride in their explorations and ideas.
Stash Multi Room Organizer
One of our best selling items! Stashionable: A fashionable way to stash your stuff. Let's face it, with kids comes clutter. Tackle that mess and give all those objects a new home with STASH. It looks good in any room of the house, either hanging on the wall or sitting on a counter top, organizing everything in easy-to-find compartments. It’s great for organizing any room in the house; sits on counter top or hangs on the wall with pre-drilled holes.
Kitchen Bins
Create a makers space for crafting and keep all of your supplies organized using Kitchen Binz. Check out our plethora of sizes.
Large Tool Box
Gather all of your art supplies and bring them with you using the Large Tool Box.
Multi-Media Space
The multi-media space is a space to house any tech that you need- a computer, laptop, tablet, charging station, headphones, etc. A quick multimedia definition is any electronic application used to teach lessons or to further educate students on a particular topic. It is a presentation of material that uses both words and pictures in a combination of test, voice, picture or video. The use of multimedia in the classroom allows educational ideas and material to be presented in a more artistic, inspired and engaging way. Helping your students or children engage in this process will be essential to their learning in our tech driven society, but even more so during Covid-19 with the online and hybrid learning platforms taking shape.
Cable Tags
Save time getting distracted by what’s plugged in where. These Cable Tags are fully adjustable to fit cable sizes up to 1cm thick. Bobino cable tag is designed to write on with any ballpoint pen. Ink can be erased for re-use. This way you can also identify each cable by putting the same color on both beginning and end.
Desk Cable Clip
Keep your cords close by using the Desk Cable Clip. Bobino desk cable clip keeps your cables organized and easy-to-reach on your desk. As it simply clips to the edge of your desk, it occupies very little space and doesn’t need to be glued on the surface. It can host three cables that are secured inside the slots.
Cord Wrap
With Bobino cord wrap it becomes easy to organize and store your cables and cords.
Use small for earbuds and headphone cords; they will never be tangled again. Medium fits USB computer cables; shorten and lengthen them to fit your needs and wrap completely for easy storage and travel. Large Bobino is ideal for longer or thicker USB cords such as laptop chargers, small extension cords for clocks, baby phones, cameras, lamps and other low voltage devices
Smart Charger
2-Port High-Speed USB Charger With SMART CHARGER, the magic is all in the details. It has dual USB-A ports to charge two devices at once, Smart-IC Technology to guarantee your devices are charging at their maximum speed, and sophisticated protection measures to ensure safety for you and your devices. SMART CHARGER’s small and compact design with foldable pins makes it pocket-sized, perfect for travel and those tricky to reach power sockets. Charge two devices simultaneously.
The most important thing to remember is that you can utilize even the smallest space effectively. You can set up a learning zone in a bookcase, on a shelf, on a bulletin board, or on a small desk or table. Be sure to maximize your space- backs of doors, above cabinets and under furniture are great places to maximize storage. And you don’t have to create all of our suggested learning areas, start with whichever area(s) will help you the most and see what happens. As you get organized to go back to school (whether in person or at home), it’s important to have all of your systems in place so you can have a successful start to the year. Let us know if there’s any way we can help!
