![]() They’d eat anything if it meant avoiding “TIDY UP TIME”. Suddenly they feel this is a more than appropriate time to sit with an army of fellow shirkers or problem solvers. Others suddenly remember, that long forgotten bruised & black banana at the snack table, which they had prolonged eating all morning, due to being far too busy. Little bodies reluctantly start to LOOK busy, some take themselves off to the toilet, for that all important wee that’s suddenly become urgent, I’m going to pee my pants urge!! The busy children are now expected to STOP what they have been enthralled with and start to get the room back to some sort of order!! To stop their playing and return to normality and the real world. The adult shakes her tambourine or perhaps a certain tune starts playing which represents it’s “tidy up time” the adult call or in some settings sadly shouts across the heads of a sea of busy engaged, absorbed bodies. Let’s reflect! Have you ever sat back and watched a group of 3 and 4-year-olds embark on a tidy up mission prior to lunch or the end of the day? The room has been well and truly used and resources have been mixed up and transported into far reaching corners of your setting, it’s nearly time for the session to end and you need to get the room ‘TIDY’. A question was asked: “How do we ensure that children tidy up properly at the end of each session?” “How can we prevent boxes of resources becoming a mixed up array of random stuff?” “How can we save endless hours at the end of each term, sorting the boxes into some sort of order and back to normality?”
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