We try, but we never have done very well at getting our table clean. I figured, hey, we are the little ones, the 8th graders can handle our crumbs and juice drips...
Until.... I tried boys against girls. I assigned each a table and said, ok, lets see who can clean it the best. If anyone's table is not good, they will have to do both tables next time. They pretty much went bananas on the most dedicated 6-7 year old cleaning frenzy I had ever seen! They wiped off the chairs, pushed them all in, they did an incredible job! And, they loved it.
I did have a few kinks to work out though... First they were soaking towels, and then getting more towels to dry. Big waste. To solve it, I spray 6 half sheet towels and hand them out. They are not allowed any more. Problem 2 was they were running all around the room. To fix that one, they will get a 5 min. time out for running. No hurry just clean!
It's been a week and it really has morphed from being a competition, to just having fun working together. Some of the boys even like to help the girls out, since there's only 4 girls and 7 boys. I haven't had a losing team yet.
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