Best Bathroom Trick Ever!

Oh, the bathroom! The bane of every teacher's existence. 

Never in the history of the world has a teacher ever said, 

"I love sending kids to the bathroom!". 

I recently sorted out a super simple trick for
sending kids to the bathroom one by one.
We all know that letting them travel
in packs is never a good idea!
So I bring you a...

Everything my students need is kept in 

these handy dandy caddys 

which I've blogged about here. 

This week I added a craft stick into the caddy 

with each students' name on it. 

When the kids need to go to the bathroom 

the girls put their stick in 

the pink cup and the boys in the green cup. 

Only one stick is allowed in each cup at a time. 

If your genders' cup is full the bathroom is closed. 

Don't forget to take your stick back to your seat.

Although the kids are great at policing each other about this.

 Here the boys' room is closed and the girls room is open. 

When the bathroom is empty is looks like this!

I make my kids give me the sign language symbol for bathroom to go. 

And of course 150 days into the school year 

and they still ask to go at all the wrong times, 

but we are working on it!

And if all else fails do this!