School Supplies a la France!

Never before have we had to pay so much attention to the school supplies list (aka liste de fourniture)! We've spent hundreds on precise notebooks, fountain pens, peculiar pen erasers, dividers with tabs, folders, agendas, paper, books for conjugation, geometry tools, and the lists go on and on! Every day there were more items to find. It became a running joke here about what someone was going to need today. Watching how these are put to use, though, has been extraordinary! All in the name of organization, the whole system works incredibly well to make sure students know what work is where. Phenomenal! I love it! I'm getting ideas! And, surprisingly, one thing that seems to have no language barrier for the girls is the language of organization! If they don't get the name, they get the color! One priceless skill to have (or so I'm telling myself because of the very large outlay of cash!) is organization. I'm sure we all can name at least one person whose organizational skills we envy. Even when the truly paperless day comes and everything is electronically kept, the ability to organize won't be negated. How can you keep track electronically if you couldn't do it with paper? I wish you could see it--here are a couple of photos of the very first shopping trip. And I thought we were done...Ha!