Planner Printing: more tips!

If you haven't seen it yet, go check out my first post about my planner that I created to use as a combination home management binder / life planner / teacher planner. It gives a ton of details about what pages I have inside, and how I set it up, including products and ideas that I used for binding and accessorizing. Click on the picture below to go...

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Teacher Tuesday: behavior management (part 1)

On today's edition of Teacher Tuesday, I want to introduce you to part of my behavior management system. Before we get into it, though, I want to tell you a little bit about my experience last year. Last year was my first year in my current position. I had been on extended maternity leave and worked at an international school in South Korea before...

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Mommy Monday: visual calendar and chore chart for toddlers

Welcome back to Mommy Monday! Today I want to show you something that I made recently for my girls who are currently 2.5 years old. You see, my girls already have a fairly complicated schedule for their age. They visit their dad a couple of times a week, and during the school year they go to their nanny's house while I'm working. And one of my...

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Get connected to discounts, freebies, and updates!

I just launched my facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/caldwellorganizedchaos?ref_type=bookmark This will be a great way for me to post updates on new products in my TeachersPayTeachers store, and offer special discounts and freebies for my followers. It's also a great way for us to connect- ask...

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Teacher Tuesday: color coding!

I have always been a huge fan of rainbows. Exhibit A: Yep. That's my 7-year-old self in all my glory. That shirt was my favorite. Later on my favorite shirt was a rainbow tie-dye shirt. I had that thing from middle school all the way through college. So when it comes to organizing and decorating my room, nobody should be surprised that I love...

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Mommy Monday: it's the little things

If you're keeping track, this blog is aiming to share organizational ideas about both teaching and mothering/homemaking. So in an effort to keep myself on track, I've decided to implement "Mommy Mondays" for ideas about mothering/homemaking. That means the teaching ideas will be on- you guessed it- "Teacher Tuesdays". So here we go with our first-ever...

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Linky Party: five favorite pins of July

I'm linking up- a little late- with Mrs. Miracle's linky party! Click on the image above to see her post and all the others from music teachers around the web! Here are my 5 favorite (teaching related) pins from July: #1: arts celebration This may be a little random but I saw it at the perfect time. The art teacher at my school wants...

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Planner tour

**note: see my updated planner for the 2015-2016 school year here!** As long as I'm starting a blog about organizing chaos, let's start with the mother ship, shall we?!? Behold, my all-encompassing and yet still surprisingly slim and cute planner! I started using the Arc system from Staples about a year ago and I love it. It has the little black...

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Organized Chaos

Welcome to my first post on my new blog! Here's what I am planning for this blog... Ideas, tips, and tricks for organizing your classroom, teaching, and life as an elementary music teacher (or other kinds of teachers too- we can all learn from each other!) Ideas, tips, and tricks for staying sane...

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