clean up
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Pre-Holiday Classroom Cleaning Tips
Did you read that title? Do you think I’m crazy yet?! Seriously, one of the most important things that I do before leaving for winter break is to CLEAN. One year my students made ornaments with cookie sprinkles and I was finding sticky sprinkles for months – not really something that you want to do when Christmas is over. I’ll be the first one to tell you that staying to clean my classroom was always the last thing I wanted to do, but it always made coming back to school after break so much easier. The decorations were already put away, all the party frosting was cleaned off the tables,…
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Cleaning Ideas
I just realized how many posts I’ve written about cleaning the classroom. What exactly does that say about me? I know I’m a bit of a neat freak, so clearly this has spread to my classroom, which I don’t think is necessarily a bad thing. If you are looking to implement a new cleaning routine, or just looking for some tips and tricks, here are some of my previous posts for you to check out: Dealing with Preschool Stains Preschool Cleaning Tips Age Appropriate Chores Teaching Children to Clean up After Themselves
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How to get your preschoolers to clean up after themselves
Children don’t clean up after themselves, they’re impulsive and as soon as they decide that they are done with one activity they move on to the next. It’s our job to teach them to clean up their materials so that they don’t get lost or broken, so that others can find them when they want them, and so that we don’t have to walk around them all day. There are many different strategies for getting children to clean up after themselves, but the following three tips have worked the best for me; Let them see you cleaning up. Children value the actions of adults, they mimic what we do in…
