Thursday, April 21, 2016

How do you keep your room tidy?

Ahhh the age old question!! 


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It is really important children value what is available to them in their learning space. I often talk about showing others who visit how much we love our learning space. Values teaching is great here. 


Top tips
- make time to teach how to clean up. Sadly this is not taught to many of our students at home.
- allow time for the students to clean up and own the mess
- have discussions about respect and what it looks like at school and at home
- play the clean up song (of your choice) Must be on the mat as the song ends not during the song. 
- have high expectations that it will be done, otherwise you will be spending hours at the end of everyday cleaning up others mess
- When it becomes a real issue reflect on your stations - do they have too much on them, stop action stations. Some words you may need to share could be....
"I'm sorry, you have been given so many chances to show respect for our learning spaces. Have a look around. Is this ok?  Tomorrow we are won't be having Action Stations until we have cleaned up. Who can write a message for the cleaners to let them know they don't need to clean up your mess tonight?"

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