Happy Friday! No Five For Friday this week for me because it’s my very first time posting on The Primary Chalkboard! I am super honored and blessed to be a part of such an amazing group of teacher bloggers over on the Chalkboard. The “Chalkies” are a second family to me! Make sure to head over to the Primary Chalkboard and follow us for great tips, ideas, and other fun!
Today I am going to share my pencil management system. It’s fairly simple, it saves my sanity and helps my little ‘staches with some responsibility!
My pencil management system starts on Monday morning (sometimes Friday afternoons) when I sharpen a bunch of pencils. I use the world’s best pencil sharpener from Classroom Friendly Supplies to sharpen my pencils. This little device means no blisters on my fingers…no sore arms…no cuss words…just beautifully sharp pencils.
Our pencils are stored in a plastic 3 drawer organizer. There is a drawer for sharp pencils, broken pencils and erasers.
Sharp pencils!
Broken pencils!
I don’t sharpen pencils during the week. We have a drawer full of sharp pencils. If we break a pencil, we place it in the broken drawer and get a new sharp pencil. If we need an eraser, we get one from the eraser drawer.
We have 5 buckets of pencils around our room. Since we don’t have seats this year, we just have them sitting around. I keep 10 or so pencils in the buckets at all times.
This system helps keep me from sharpening pencils during the week so it’s a time saver and the ‘staches are responsible for solving their problem of a broken pencil!
Here’s another tip: “Hire” a 3rd, 4th or 5th grader from your school to come to your classroom Friday afternoon to sharpen pencils. You could even arrange a deal with a teacher who has a student who might need some extra attention and TLC to be your pencil sharpener!
How do you manage your pencils?
