They way we work.

In the art room I know that lots of people think that we,The Art teachers have the messes rooms ever. Paint and water and crayons everywhere. Hahah sometimes this is true, some days and classes are just messy then others. The truth is that you have to be super organized when you work as an art teacher or as a special area teacher. You see over 100 students a day and over 500 students in a week. Hey most people don' t see that many people in a month. Parents don't realized that we see their child plus everyone else child and we are using paint, crayons, paper, glue scissors  and whatever else you can think of all in 45mins. Oh and we have to be cleaned up before the next class arrives in the next five minutes. So we have to be pretty organized to make sure we know what goes where and that the students know what's going on. So here is how we do it at the Palm.

 Students come in and on the table are caddies with general materials like pencils, pens, markers, color pencils scissors and glue. The students like this and I do too because everything you need is right there. I usually try to have all the pencils sharpen, but if not I just sharpen them during class or have some helpers do it.

 Here are the drawers that are in the room for each class from Kindergarten to 3rd grade. When they put their name on their work, they also put the teacher's name or code and the date. Sometimes students or teacher put the wrong work in the wrong drawer, it happens. This helps also at the end of class for students to know where to put the work and it is out of the way so the next class doesn't touch it.

 Each table has a color coded folder which I laminated at the district media center ( I love that place). It has the teacher name so the students know which drawer to put them in after we are done with class.

 So because of the lack of extra pull out drawers. I have given my upper grades, 4th and 5th grade their own personal folders, Thanks sharing tree this would not be possible with out you. They are located on the counter and every thing is labeled.