Ready to give more options than just a chair in your classroom? Here are smart tips to offer seating alternatives in a kindergarten classroom.
How can a teacher create student work spaces without using name tags? Here is how I make mobile work spaces for students and introduce the variety of work spaces in our kindergarten classroom. When I wanted an alternative seating solution I needed a way to teach my new students how to choose their own work…
There’s so much to be said for offering choice in the classroom. Here is an additional way to offer choice to students using alternative seating in kindergarten. Yes, you can totally do this in kindergarten and it doesn’t matter when you start. I’ve started it on day one and also after the year was already…
You asked about how we have alternative seating setup and I’ve answered lots of alternative seating questions! One I haven’t covered was where to put all of the students’ things… you know, their stuff. Because we have pencil boxes, workbooks, writing notebooks or journals, etc. Here is how I went about storing and organizing student…
More than once I’ve been asked with my classroom of alternative seating options, “Where do your students do a whole group activity?” So let me share where and how we complete a whole group activity in kindergarten. Before I lay out what we do – and it’s really rather simple – let me remind you…
Before the last three weeks of school, I spent almost an entire weekend in my classroom… with a plan. The plan was to be brave, be bold and try something different. The last two years, I really hadn’t changed much in layout with my classroom because it was working well and in general, very smoothly….
Someone asked me how I roll out alternative seating at the beginning of the school year. Great question! Let me share my top tips on introducing and implementing alternative seating starting the first day of school. Let me also remind you that when I first started because I got rid of my teacher desk, that I…
Now, I’ve never had an administration member, parent or support person walk into my room and say astonishedly, “Your kids are under the tables!” But, they very well could. It may happen someday. Perhaps. Normally, when a person who doesn’t spend all day in our learning environment with us – may be surprised to walk…