As I was pondering things I could do differently to help me keep things in order I came up with two plans involving my students. The first change was to my clean up procedure. This year I assigned each seat at my color coated tables a specific job that they will maintain for the year. I know a lot of teachers rotate jobs but I figured if they're doing the job the whole year clean up should go smoothly. I have four seats at each table and came up with these four jobs:
(**Photos coming soon!**)
1. Pencil Exchanger- These students take the 4 pencils from their pencil basket and exchange them for new pencils from my sharpened pencils cups.
2. Portfolio Collector-These students returns the table's portfolio to the labeled shelf.
3. Supply Collector- These students return the supplies to the supply shelf.
4. Floor Inspector- These students make sure that there's nothing on the floor and any scraps from the table are put away.
I attempted to use a mission impossible song slip during clean up time but students would run when they knew the song was coming to an end so I went back to my 5,4,3,2,1 countdown. I really like the idea of a song I think perhaps I just need to find a slightly longer song.
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