Today we spent the morning getting to know each other. After sharing a little about ourselves and what our interests are, we looked at Ms. Readmore's class. Together we tried to figure out the names of Ms. Readmore's students and what organizational problems they may have. We then took a questionnaire entitled: "How organized are you?" The questionnaire and results will be sent home on Wednesday. We discussed how organizing doesn't just mean that you are neat and tidy, but that you know where things are, you're responsible for your own things, and you can easily find things you need.
This afternoon we talked about priorities and what it means to fill our day with important items first. We worked through a visual representation in which a vase (representing our time) was filled with rubber duckies. Then we added marbles, and we finally added water to make the vase entirely full. We discussed how we would not have been able to fill the vase with as many rubber duckies (important things we need to do) if we had started with the marbles (things we want to make time for) or water (things we don't necessarily want to make time for but would enjoy doing if we had time). The students made their own list of what rubber duckies, marbles, and water they have in their own lives.
We organized the supply closet and discussed how organizing things ourselves helps us remember where things are. We also tested our brain power with brain teasers in which we had to determine where all of the unorganized student's laundry fell on the stairs from a word problem.
Tomorrow we will dig into organizing binders and planners as we continue to get to know one another!
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