Keeping daily attendance and make-up work organized

Are your attendance records up to date and organized?  Do you forget to give students their make-up work or have to look for it in a stack of papers?  Well, I have a solution for you.  Get a 3 ring binder.  It can be one and a half inch  or two inches.  A one inch binder is too small too keep for an entire year.  Next, purchase some folders with pockets and labels.  Label them with your class periods.  Then print out several copies of each class’s roster and put it behind the correct label.  For attendance, put the dates across the top of the rosters.  Each day put a T if someone is tardy, an A if someone is absent, and leave blank if the student is present.  For make up work, put the name of the student on the assignment and put in the pocket folder for their class period.  When the student comes to school,  you remember to give it to the student because it is in the same location as the attendance.    This has helped me a great deal.  When students tell me they were absent, I can immediately look in the binder and check.  This has also cut down on students telling me they were not  in class when I gave out an assignment.