An Up-the-Wall Solution
Breathes there a teacher of kindergarteners who ever had enough storage space in the classroom? When Cheryl Kooistra taught the fours and fives at Tahlequah Bible Church in Oklahoma, she endured the usual box in the comer crammed with crayons, glue, scissors, workbooks, tape, gummed stars, and novelty seals, pawing through the mishmash each week—until she finally had a better idea. She created what might be called a "storage banner"—a large piece of denim hung on the wall by a dowel rod, with pockets for each kind of item. "I sewed pockets according to the number and size of the things I needed to store," the teacher says, "a large, expandable pocket for books, and smaller patch pockets for other things we used in crafts." A long strip sewn at intervals made loops to hold scissors. Kooistra, who has since moved to California, appliqued a design or word to each pocket so the children would know what belonged inside. "This not only provided some aesthetic value and organization to the room," she says, "but it made clean-up time fun, too. The children were always eager to put things in the right pocket."
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