Clean Up

In this assignment, you will do individual and group clean up to put the classroom back in order for next school year.

Individual (All Students):

• Student File

  • Take your work off the walls of the classroom and remove your student file 

  • Once done with your portfolio, your papers go home or recycling

  • Folders, nametags, and plastic tags get organized back in the classroom

• Journal

  • Reusable cover pages get organized into piles for future use

  • Your papers go home or recycling

  • Personal binders go home or get donated to class, loaned binders stay here

• Plants

  • Seedlings you planted go home, large plants stay (name tags off)

Projects for Anyone:

• Remove tape, wash out all water cups, and set them on towels to dry

• Organize markers (mix of colors in each yogurt container)

• Plant re-potting and cleaning up

• Clean up shelves, sinks, counters, and corners

• Clean out files and journals for absent students

• Re-distribute classroom lost and found

• Take out recycling and trash

• Erase small whiteboards and sheet protectors

• Carefully take down and organize student work and posters

  • Birds down

  • Take down DNA sculpture (paper clips in bag, peanuts in recycling)

• Stack chairs and lay tables on their sides

• Carry out potted plants and soil

Past projects:

• Take down and distribute (or recycle) nametags

• Carefully take down and organize student work and posters

  • Essential Outcomes carefully taken down and tape removed

Clean Up Extension 1: Student Work Samples

Find, scan, and organize exemplary work from students for each of the following:

• At least two samples from each of our 10 essential outcomes

• A complete and thorough journal for each of our 4 units

• At least four completely filled-in journal cover pages showing growth in all 10 essential outcomes and overall scores. 

• At least two samples of assignments done since Spring Break that show growth or mastery 

Clean Up Extension 2: Classroom Supplies

Inventory and organize classroom supplies including the following: 

• Binders for journals

• Hanging files and file folders

• Art supply boxes

• Plant supplies 

Clean Up Extension 3: Classroom Walls

Take down, clean and organize materials on classroom walls including the following: 

• Student work samples

• Essential outcomes and student data

• Whiteboards

• Cabinets