Pencil wars classroom

Have you heard about "Pencil Wars" or the "Great Pencil Challenge" to keep your classroom stocked with pencils? Forget those! I have the EASIEST method for you to keep pencils available, ready, and sharpened for the week and this system will work ALL YEAR with an added incentive. I promise you will have pencils left at the end of the school year and wonder why you never did this before! This will work for all grade levels but focuses on the elementary level. #pencilclassroommanagement

When I was a kid, I loved school supplies. I mean really LOVED them. Crisp white sheets of paper, bright markers, a brand new pink eraser, binders, notebooks, index cards. What could be better? It's secretly why I became a teacher. (You too? We should start a club!) I still love school supplies. Well, most of them. I seem to have developed a love/hate relationship with the King of all school supplies. That's right... the Number 2 Pencil. My classroom is perpetually littered with them. It's…

Winning the Pencil war

Every teacher understands the frustration of pencils. You want your kids to do their work, but you want them to have their own supplies. There are always those kids that don't have pencils though. Unfortunately, with my kids, pencils during the first semester disappeared all the time. I tried multiple things. Leave a shoe, take a pencil for you definitely didn't work for me because I didn't have time to keep up with it. Kids would take pencils out of the classroom constantly. I found that I…

Anyone struggling with missing pencils? Here is a plan to help your students NEVER LOSE A PENCIL AGAIN! Try this out! It's a super simple, yet effective classroom management strategy that works across grade levels. Try it out with your elementary students today! {lost pencils, pencil management, Kindergarten, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, first, second, third, fourth, fifth graders, Grade, Year 1, 2, 3, 4, 5} #mrmault

Pencil War

This year, I have had a pencil dilemma. This is my 21st year of teaching and I have never had this problem. I have always just put out pencils in the supply buckets at each table. I would put out new pencils as we needed them, but it wasn't very often. Each year, I always had a surplus of pencils left. Luckily, I had a lot of extra pencils left from last year, because this year, the pencils in my room have been disappearing. I teach two different blocks of students. I'm not exactly sure…

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