Organizing Fundations and a Freebie!

First of all, I have to say how grateful I am to these two teachers!


       Both of them were kind enough to give me some encouragement on this whole Fundations journey I'll be on this year.  I'm so excited that they reached out and made me feel comfortable in contacting them throughout the year when I need it!  I've been stalking their blogs this weekend...and if you're not following them yet, you should jump on over and check them out!  (You can click on their buttons above to visit their site.)
In my last post about Fundations, I showed you all of the materials we received.  Click here if you want to see them again.
So here's how I organized all of the student materials...I numbered everything.  The teachers we observed at an area district suggested that we do this so that if a piece ever came up missing, we could just flip it over and see the number and match it with the student.  The first thing I did was pull out all of the magnetic pieces, flip them over and write the same number on each piece with a silver Sharpie.  I then labeled the fabric envelope, letter board and both sides of the dry erase boards with the same number.

I was a little worried about all of these magnetic pieces so I only put the ones we will need to start the year on the letter board and I sorted the rest.

There are about 30 "extra" pieces that we won't be using during the first few weeks of school and since I need to keep it simple for my Firsties and myself, I purchased a bead organizer at Walmart to store the additional pieces in.

  So now, when we need a specific tile, I can just pull them out and pass them out to the kiddos. Hoping this works!  :)
I also had a few requests to share the letters I created as an extension of my newest favorite book, The Day the Crayons Quit! 

  

You can download them by clicking here.

Have a great day!