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Are you a teacher who wants to secure your pupils’ items when they mingle with other kids in the nursery or kindergarten classes? Well, you ought to know that missing or lost items are fairly a common problem shared by most parents as well as pre-primary education teachers like you.  For sure, you are oriented by the school administrators or supervisors that it is not actually your responsibility to safeguard the children’s lost items. However, it would be very kind of a teacher like you to share your knowledge on safekeeping of the kids’ items to their parents during parent-teacher meetings and other similar events. Also, the kids’ teacher would prove her self as a responsible and caring mentor when she is able to secure the things of the kids even if it’s not really her responsibility to do so.

The question now is, “How would I reduce the number of lost items like P.E uniforms and water bottles in my classroom?” One of the techniques in keeping the items of the kids where they should be and be found by the kids who own such items is using name labels. Name labels can be put to various items like lunchboxes, toy boxes, and even in book shelves. They bear the name of each student to indicate that all the items in that box belong to that specific pupil. For the child to be correctly identified by all teachers and personnel inside the school, the parents can be advised to put iron on name labels on their clothing.

Adults like us often get stressed when we lose an item or two, especially when it is very important to us. You might not realize it, but kids also get stressed when they lose their things. While scolding the child in a light manner can be of big help to let him realize that that toy or book he lost was significant, it would not do any better to physically punish the child, or scold him real hard. This would only lead to more stress and stirring some sort of hatred in the mind and heart of the child, which you surely don’t want him to have. To avoid circumstances like this, it’s better if you teach the child on how to identify his belongings through the use of name labels. All you have to do is to tell the child that whatever item bears his name via iron-on name labels belongs to him. You can give the child an extra instruction, like, if he sees an item that is on the floor and no one’s picking it up, he can look at the label and give the item to the person accordingly.

Iron-on name labels on clothing can also be used by parents if they go the mall or any public place. You, as the teacher, can give a tip to the parents about this simple technique so their children can be identified rightly. Iron-on clothing labels can be attached to almost all kinds of fabric. They can be put to uniforms, cardigans, jackets and other clothes.

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