Work Diary #2

One of the main reasons I wanted to start recording the work I do, is to have a log for NEXT year. I seem to get annual amnesia. How did I have students keep their stuff organized? What is the paper flow system? I have created and forgotten, hundreds of routines, activities, and other bits of instruction of the years.

The thing I am struggling with most this year is keeping the classroom clean. I have classroom jobs, but I don't make them a daily routine with fidelity. So, yesterday, I spent 3 hours cleaning the classroom. 

When I moved into my current classroom, one of the things I lamented was that there were no cubbies. So, I borrowed a class set of milk crates from the cafeteria to make individual cubbies. I tried to make a bookshelf of them, and ended up not liking how much space they took up. So, the next iteration was for the individual cubbies to be a the students' table spot.


WHAT. A. MISTAKE!!! I went through ONE child's cubby and recovered pencils, whiteboards, and the lost scepter of Narnia. So, yesterday, I moved all of the student cubbies to line the back counter. I had too many students for them to fit in one nice line, so I had to put several cubbies in front of my cupboards.

BONUS: Too many times kids go into the cupboards, find something cool that they want to play with, and I don't have the heart to say no about little things that don't matter. However, now that the student cubbies are blocking the cupboards, they won't be able to go pilfering.




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