Greetings friends! I am still recovering from my surgery this
week and it hasn’t been as easy as I had hoped. Anywho, I asked some friends to
guest blog for me this week to help a sistah out. Have a great week friends!
Love and virtual hugs, Crystal.
week and it hasn’t been as easy as I had hoped. Anywho, I asked some friends to
guest blog for me this week to help a sistah out. Have a great week friends!
Love and virtual hugs, Crystal.
Hiya Peeps
Shuna here from Pocket Full of Kinders
I am so happy to be guest blogging for Crystal!
By no means is this my orginal idea! I read somewhere about this idea and decided to try it and boy did it work.
Have you often thought that your classroom looks like this
And wished it looked like this
Well this little tidbit might help
This game is called Mystery Trash. You have the students stand and tell them that you have ___________ pieces of mystery trash, I usally pick 2 pieces, and that it is their job to find it. You tell the students that they must be dectectives and find the mystery trash but they can't push, talk, run or take something from some one else.
IN order to ensure that my kiddos really clean I tend to look around and pick the smallest most minute piece of trash on my floor and trash and that is the least obvious place. After I have mentally decided what items will be my mystery trash I remind the kiddos of the rules.
I set a time limit and have the kids go for it! Prepare yourself they will be scrambling all over the floor looking for that piece of mystery trash. If I see someone breaking the rules I automatically make them go back to their seat and they can no longer play. This breaks their little hearts to see all of their friends crawling around on the floor and they can't
* What is it about kinders and crawling? I don't know about your kiddos but mine never WALK!
They run, scoot, crawl, hop, Jump, ugh but thats another story*
Once all the trash is cleaned up I have the students to stand, throw all their trash away and I annouce who picked up my mystery trash and where it was located.
I usually give the students who found the mystery trash a sticker or a small treat
MY kids love this game and it is a fun way for them clean up
While I was typing this I just remembered where I saw this idea! Duh, it was on Teacher Tipster but I am too lazy to scroll back to the top of this post to change it.
Here is the vid
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My kiddos love love love cut and paste sheets!
I have a ton of book order forms so I thought that I would put them to use
The kiddos used a book order form and cut out words that they could read
*You can get this sheet for free along with some other magazine work printables here
After finishing all that cutting we had a big mess on our hands. There was paper and crap everywhere
Here is an example of mystery trash game in action
Note the time on the clock
Note the time!
Sparkling Clean!
Jennifer White says
I am loving the cut out sheet!
Jennifer
First Grade Blue Skies
Julie Gleason says
Thank you very much for opening this back up!
You are very kind!!!!
masmith4 says
We do "Secret Scrap" in my classroom, and the kids BEG me every day before dismissal to do it!!! Greatest trick EVER!!!!!!! :o)