There are five buckets that every classroom must have to help it run smoother and stay organized! These five buckets help me keep my students organized, help make sure they know where everything goes, and help you keep your classroom clean! There are affiliate links in this post, but these are all things that I do use in my classroom! I love these buckets!
Book bins are a must in every classroom! The magazine boxes from IKEA are perfect for students to store their independent reading books in for their silent reading time! I have the students decorate the outside of them with their numbers or names so that way they always know how to find them. Depending on their books the boxes will hold up all year. If they don't I have used the colorful duct tape to tape up the bottom of them to make sure they hold up! I love these green buckets, also from IKEA to store my classroom library. They are perfect to hold a ton of books and are easy for my students to pull in and out to look through. Plus, with their price point it is easy to use them for my whole library and they have held up now for three years!
Having bins for notebooks is a great way to help students keep clutter out of their desk, and help keep their notebooks in good condition all year. This also allows you to keep track of the notebooks, and grade them without them cluttering your desk. These bins are awesome, and held up well throughout the year. I found them at Michaels last summer and LOVE them!!
These sterlite drawers are perfect for students to turn in their homework. They are the perfect size for papers to fit in, and they stack so well on each other in case you need more than one at a time. I found these one here from Amazon, but I bought mine at Walmart. You can also pick them up at Target of course, every teacher's favorite store. I love these bins because I can easily flip through the papers then and make sure that I have all of the homework that was to be turned in.
These sliding drawers are amazing for so many different things! I love using them for my word work activities! They were perfect to have all of the different things that my students could work on. I also loved using these to store my weekly lesson plans in. This way I could make all of my copies, have everything in them and ready for the week.
These bins from the Dollar Tree are amazing! I LOVE them because they are perfect for my classroom colors! I also love that there are so many different sizes for the many different things that we use in math. There are perfect containers for dice, clocks, worksheets, decks of card, money and so much more!
I am thinking about buying individual books bins for students. I usually use gallon-sized ziploc bags that get set into plastic tubs. Those work fine, but I think book bins would be more durable.
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