Yes, she is in third.
They actually have a required color coding system: green folder and notebook for science, yellow folder and notebook for word study, blue for social studies, etc. We have to provide all these supplies in the specified colors at the beginning of the year (which I don't mind doing). Honestly there is just a lot of it. They have 4 colors of subject folders, plus a composition book for a reading journal and a homework folder. There is also a math textbook and their reading book. And a homework agenda. And their "pencil box" of supplies.
So for example, the teacher will say during reading groups "Get out your reading journal" and when she can't find the journal in 2 seconds she gets upset. I think the journal is supposed to be in a hanging file labeled "Reading". But in my observation of her "crate", it is more than likely just stuffed in there somewhere.
The other problem comes at pack up time at the end of the day, when they are pulling out their homework for the night. She often has trouble finding things because she is in a rush to get packed up. She really doesn't have to be in a rush because there is nowhere she needs to be in a hurry, but she rushes anyway and gets flustered.
Beth, mom to older DD (8/01) and younger DD (10/06) and always missing Leah (4/22 - 5/1/05)