Okay. Here is one of my ideas. I probably swiped it from some source (or at least got the general idea somewhere), but developed it for my own classroom. I have an "Out of the Room" system.
Each child has their picture (laminated) with a metal ring clipped through a hole. I placed these pictures in a pocket chart.
I hung three clips with "office", "nurse" and "restroom" by my door.
If they are in the restroom, they hang their picture/tag on the hook. This does 2 things. One: It tells me who is out of the classroom at any time. Two: Only one child can hang their tag on the restroom hook at a time.
At the beginning of the year, I had a lot of students that were going to the restroom several times per day in addition to our scheduled classroom breaks, so I started having them use the tag one time, then place it in a basket on my desk. This gives them at least one emergency restroom break every day without having them leave the classroom constantly because they want to wander the halls.
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