Getting organized?

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I'm going to be honest and say I'm not sure what I need at the moment wether it be suggestions or what? Maybe just a vent. Hmmm

Thursday evening J should be getting ready for bed, if not already in bed. He's not, he has decided he needs to pull out all his pencils and papers from his room. My older son asks him what he is doing and he is told he is filing. What!! !???? I go into the lounge room to tell him to pack up and go to bed. J tells me that his books and pencils at school are missing and his teacher has said that it's his fault because he is disorganized. J tells me he thinks it's not his fault and that someone must be taking his stuff. He tells me I need to talk to his teacher. By this time it's now 9.45pm and he has stuff every where. My older son tells me, because of what his teacher said this is most likely why J is now "filing" his things at home.

I went in to talk to his teacher yesterday. I told her what had happened at home and what time it was before I could get him to bed. She laughs. She then apologized for laughing and said but it is kind of funny and at least he is now trying to get organized. I explain to his teacher that J doesn't get a rest full sleep as it is, he is up and down all night doing stretching exercises. The teacher tells me, that some of J's books have now magically been found by J now that she kicked up a song and dance, some are still missing though. Apparently she has given J at least 2 replacement books for one subject over the course of the last few months. I told her that his miss placing books was a problem last year as well and I was unsure as to what last years teacher did about it if anything.

Something needs to be done, I'm not sure what. I just know putting it all back on J is not the answer.

My son is an organizational mess, so we play administrative assistants for him. In elementary school we went through his back pack with him every night; now we do it once a week. It's just support we believe he needs. He's outgrown pieces of it; writing this I've realized I used to have to check his pencil supplies daily, too, but no longer; so it's not like you keep them from learning when you help. Beats a bedtime panic