Save the Trees! {a bright idea}

Hey yall!

 

I am currently immensely enjoying my Spring Break.

 

After we get back from our glorious break, we only have 28 days of school left!

Seriously?!?! 28???

The end of the year will be here in a flash.

 

As we get closer to the end of the year, supplies seem to dwindle.

We're down to our last box of pencils, we've been out of lined paper for weeks, and you can forget about glue sticks....not even one in sight.

 

Another thing I'm almost out of? Printer paper.

Each teacher got a ream of paper at the beginning of the year and I'm down to my very last pack.

 

As if running low on paper isn't enough, the copy nazi printer police office has laid down the law.

Only 200 copies can be made for the entire 9 weeks and all copies must first be approved.

 

Yikes.

 

So what's a teacher to do???

 

I had to find a bright idea, yall!

 

 

Hopefully, my bright ideas will be helpful for yall, too!

 

 

 

It seems that center and station activities require a ton of paper. Each one includes a recording sheet for students to record their work. However, there is no way I can print off a recording sheet for every single student for every single center.

Just not gonna happen.

 

So instead of printing off a recording sheet for every student, I only print off 5.
Laminate those suckers and throw a few dry erase markers in and you're done.

My favorite way to say paper is by printing multiple copies of a sheet.
This saves you at least half the amount of paper! Even more, if you print 4 to a sheet.

Here's how you print multiple copies:
1. Choose the page that you want to make smaller copies of. Say I want to make copies of this place value center recording sheet. Go to that page and take note of the page number (in this case, page 12).

2. When you go to print, choose the page number that you want to make smaller. Type in the page number twice, with a comma in between.

3. Click on the button that says "Multiple." Change the amount to whatever you wish-I usually make it 2 pages per sheet. Be sure to click the button at the bottom that says "Auto-rotate pages within each sheet."

 

That's it! Click print and you're done.

 

Note: if you are trying to print off a document that has only 1 page, it won't allow you to type in the page numbers to print. Unfortunately, this prevents you from printing multiple pages :(

 

 

Now, I know these are super simple tips, but for some reason it took me until this year to utilize them! They honestly have saved me a ton of paper, though :)

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