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Posted: Jan 08 2009 at 1:00pm | IP Logged Quote happymama
Is your classroom off-limits?

Our classrooms keep getting "trashed" by young friends who are understandably interested in what's on the shelves. Today I actually locked one of the rooms before visitors came.
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Most definitely off-limits. Occasionally I will bring out things that we have used for school, one at a time, if a particular interest is there, but not wholesale rummaging through school stuff...I have a hard enough time keeping it organized with just us using it! :-)
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Posted: Jan 08 2009 at 3:13pm | IP Logged Quote Sarah M
We don't have any specific "classroom", but I go around the house and pick up whatever I don't want to get torn apart/played with roughly, and lock it up in my bedroom till our guests leave. I just can't expect my friends' kids to respect our school things (microscope, montessori works, abacus, etc) with the same careful behavior that I expect of my own children, so locking it up when they are here just seems the most practical.
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Oh, yes. Ours is downstairs so it's easier to keep off-limits.

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Most definitely. I know the older kids get interested in the books we have, but I've had make it off limits when a big group comes over. If it's one family, it's not a big deal. I just wish I had doors to close it up completely.

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