How to Make a Classroom and Play School

Do you want something different to play when your friends come over? How about school! You can transform your room into a classroom, make worksheets, and be a teacher!

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You want a fun, but serious classroom. If you have an empty room in your house, you can use that, or, just use your bedroom.
If you have some stuffed animals or dolls, you can use them to be your students. You can also ask your friends.
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This can be your bed, or even a real desk. As long as it is something that you can sit at and it is bigger than the other desks in the room, it can be the teacher's desk.
First, find out the number of students coming to your classroom. A student desk can be a chair, a seat on the floor, or, a real student desk. You can also seat your students around a table. If the students are in the floor or a chair, give them a large hard cover book so they can have a surface to write on.
If you have a world or state map, you can hang that up. Just be careful not to tape it, then the paint on the wall will come off; push pins are a good idea. If you have any other educational posters, you can hang them up too.
If you or your family has a laptop, you can move it into the room. A phone is also good for fake calls to different rooms. A TV might be a good idea, along with a DVD player so you can watch a movie for recess or if you have movies about anything educational, you can watch that. You may want to ask your parents before you do this and about the movies to watch. Any movie is fine for recess, as long as you don't spend too much time on it. Twenty minutes is a good time limit. You might also want a bookshelf or something so you can put your friends coat (if they have one) lunch, backpack, graded papers, notebook, pens, pencils, and everything else they might have brought. You need to ask them to bring these things.
Search the web and print some worksheets, or make your own. You can also ask your teachers at the end of the year for extra worksheets that you can use in the future.
Make sure you have extra pens, pencils, paper, notebooks, stapler, tape, staple remover, and maybe a board with some chalk or dry erase markers and an eraser.
or Mr. '_____'s' room, with a name. Make up a fake name, or, use your real one. Make a sign in-sign out sheet so the students can go where they need to go. Make a grade book and a bad list. Punishment could be a trip to the principal's office or a call home. A grade book can be a binder.

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If I don't have desks for the students, can I seat them on the floor?
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Of course! Just make sure that there is a hard surface for them to write on. like a clipboard or a notebook.
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If I want a lower grade like grade one, can I put smaller things and not as detailed worksheets?
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Yes, that is probably a good idea. Maybe do easy questions such as "What is the name of our town?" and they could answer it.
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What if I can't print stuff?
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You don't have to have any printed materials to play school. You can use blank paper, handwritten documents, or just have imaginary workbooks and fact sheets.
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Take frequent breaks to let the kids out of the classroom. Don't let them get bored.
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Don't make punishments too hard.
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This is something fun, so if someone doesn't want to do the work, don't make them and don't punish them.
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Be prepared because if you don't have everything ready, the kids may get bored.
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