Because I choose to have tables instead of student desks, we need to find a place to store our math workbooks; BEE books; poetry binders; and notebooks for writing, word work, reading, science, and social studies. We store them in bins. The bins each have a matching label so students can easily identify where a a notebook belongs.
Bin and Notebook Labels – 
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Hi, Thanks so much for sharing! I am wondering about the items labeled “Social Studies”, etc. Do these get passed out to students? Just wondering how to manage when all of them need to get these materials at once and avoiding the crowd that would stand around trying to get them. I am excited to use flexible seating this year, just trying to make sure my management is tight and how to manage a space for student books and what that space looks like are my biggest questions.
I dismiss students from our meeting area one at a time or possibly 2-3 at a time. Sometimes as I’m finishing directions/lesson I have one student place the notebooks out on the floor face up, scattered around the room and then dismiss the entire group. It works! =) OH…and sometimes if we’re doing it after we come back to the room, I have them lined up outside the classroom by number order (the notebooks) and as students come in the room, they grab their notebook.