Every year I seem to want to find some
way to change up my classroom. This year I added camping chairs to my room. I’ve
been using them during our silent reading time. I’ll admit, at first I was
really skeptical. Best case scenario - the kids will love reading in them and
take care of them. Worst case scenario – it won’t work and my family will have
a new set of chairs for ballgames! I figured that I couldn’t lose and bought 6
chairs from WalMart for $6 a piece at the end of the summer. I really thought
that the chairs would be heading home before mid-September. However, the kids
LOVE them and have taken really good care of them. It has been 6 months now and
believe it or not, there have been ZERO accidents with them – and they are all
still in one piece! I was certain that at least one of the kiddos would fall
out of them (I know that I’ve done that myself at ball games J).
However, I think that we’ve avoided
accidents by discussing the ground rules for the chairs before we ever used
them. Rules for using the camping chairs:
·
They may be used
for READING only
·
Absolutely no
leaning
·
You may not use
one near someone else (you have to have your own space)
·
You have to carry
it to your destination (no dragging them across the floor)
·
They must be
folded correctly and placed back in the crate
Like anything else in the elementary
classroom, the rules must be discussed and demonstrated several times. They are
definitely going to be a part of my classroom for years to come!
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