Color code books in the desk

When you look inside a students' desk it's easy to get overwhelmed. For me it drives me nuts sometimes to see all of the JUNK and disorganization in there. It's a jungle. Soooooo, when a teacher says its time to take out a math book there's no wonder kids say "Which one is that?" or "The red one?" Use a colored marker to mark the ends of the books with a different color. Now when your kids look inside of their desks for "the red math book" or "green social studies book" they can find it so much more easily!!