Bathroom Breaks

Do your students constantly ask you to go to the bathroom? I think this happens to both regular classroom teachers and substitute teachers. Well, I have found a dynamite solution! I was subbing in a third grade classroom when I found this, so I'm not claiming this idea, only sharing. I noticed the students putting a green piece of paper in a basket every time they went to the bathroom. Finally, I asked one of them what they were doing. This is the good part: At the beginning of each week, every student gets seven slips of paper. Their names are written on each slip and each slip is good for one trip to the bathroom. Each time they want to leave the room to go to the bathroom they have to turn in one slip to the teacher's basket. I absolutely loved this teacher's idea. What a great way to teach the kids responsibility and to keep the bathroom trips down to a minimum.