1. Blow a train whistle and warn the children that the clean-up engine will be arriving at the station in five minutes.2. After five minutes have passed, blow the whistle again and say, "All aboard!"3. Begin chugging around the room and invite the children to be cars on your train.4. Stop at a center and ask the group to clean up that area so that the train can go to the next stop.5. Continue making stops around the room until the whole room is clean.6. If the centers are too small for the whole group to clean up, ask the engineer to select volunteers or assign children to different centers as the train chugs around the room.More to doAssign a different child each day to be the engineer. Provide him with an engineer hat to wear for the day or at clean-up time. It is the engineer's job to lead the train around the room and ensure that the centers are cleaned satisfactorily.
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