As the end of the school year nears, I want to share with you a system for cleaning my classroom at the end of the school year. It will save your sanity and keep those little learners busy on those last few days of school.
Who Should Help with the End of the Year Clean Up?
Steps to Classroom Clean Up
Keep a List of What Comes Next
How Do I Get The Class to Help?
For each job completed, I give a reward. The small jobs like checking for working markers or erasing the word family charts, I may give a mini marshmallow. The BIG jobs like sorting sight word cards or cleaning shelves may get a bigger prize. I am up front about various rewards to encourage hard workers.
Tips I Have Learned Over Time
Once an area is done… I close it for the year. THE END. It is no longer an option. As we clean, more and more of the room gets closed down. It is truly a beautiful thing. Also keep in mind that many, if not all, of these tasks have learning elements. Like organizing number cards 1-100, or sorting addition and subtraction cards.
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End of the Year Slideshow | Scrapbook | Movie$6.00
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Ocean Math Activities$4.00
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Oceans of Fun$7.00
What a great idea!!
Blessings,
Jessica Stanford
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I'd love more ideas on this! It seems I have lots of stuff everywhere !!
DO you have a specific list of what you clean?
For some reason, the kids love to clean!! It's great to get their help 🙂
❤Teri
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Thanks for the idea!! The thought of packing up my entire classroom right now is not appealing to me AT ALL!!
Cindy
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This is a super idea! I am moving to a new classroom so I have a lot of clean up to do. Today I had the little darlin's help me with organizing the classroom library –you know how books throughout the year get put in the wrong place, etc. It also gave us a chance to talk about all the different genres of books too!
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I do something similar. I do the same thing with puzzles and games. If anything is missing they write on a post it what it is just in case we find it hiding behind something.
I also have them help me organize my guided reading library and as they return books from their book boxes.
I really like the idea of having the kids help clean. I did most of the work myself, with the help of a teacher friend who was already done. However while watching a movie on Tuesday I did have one of my can't-sit-still-without-going-crazy kids label all of the tables and chairs for me. That was one task done that I was not looking forward to doing… and last week sometime I chose 3 friends to sort coins so that I could put math kits back together.
You've got this down pat!! Great ideas – especially the one about starting with puzzles and games. 🙂 Renee