The Pencil Battle!

As all teachers know, keeping students with sharpened pencils is a constant battle. I personally do not have a sharpener in the room because it drives me crazy. This year I am going to try the strategy of communal pencils, and one of the weekly jobs will be for a student to sharpen all of the pencils at the beginning of the day. I got this little handy organizer at Michael's. My only complaint is that I wish the cups that hold the pencils were a little taller. I was thinking of adding card stock around the top, but I thought I would wait and see how it works when the kids get here first.