Monday, June 13, 2011

Manic Monday

In order to prevent twenty or so first graders from sharpening their pencils during instruction, we have a can of sharpened pencils available.  The students can put pencils that need sharpened in the "Please Sharpen" can, and the Super Kid sharpens them after they finish getting the calendar ready.  Of course, anyone may sharpen pencils in their free time as long as I am not teaching.  This is the first year that I have had reluctant sharpeners!  No one wanted to sharpen pencils this year!  It was their least favorite job.  How do you handle pencil sharpening during lessons?

1 comment:

Myers said...

Okay, this middle school teacher is totally stealing the sharpened pencil bucket idea. I may need a full gross of them but it is one of my greatest irritations. Thanks for the solution! Great blog.