Mailboxes

In the second grade class that I was in, my cooperating teacher had a mailbox system. The mailboxes are individual slots where each student had their own slot with his or her name out to the side. When the teacher hands back papers or students are finished with an assignment that doesn't need to be graded, they know once the teacher says, "put it in your mailbox" to go and put the papers in to go home. The mailboxes save a lot of space because the students sit at tables and don't have a place to put their papers. When I have my own classroom, I want to implement the use of mailboxes because it makes for a great way to store papers to go home. It is also an easy way to pass back papers to students.

I am attaching a picture of what they are. This isn't from the class I was in, but it gives you an idea of what they look like.