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For certain, over each of the 4 Quarter breaks my district calendar has scheduled. Throughout the school year I change the Classroom rug seating chart various times throughout the school year. I still continue to use color groups simultaneously so that arrangement looks like this:
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This works well because it has students chatting with a partner who is not too far away from their literacy ability level. This seating arrangement is ideal for Partner Talk during shared reading or writing! I have students in Row 2 and Row 4 turn to the person directly behind them to answer the questions I present to the group. Print out and glue to strips for a quick, easy alternative. Here is an alternate to the hats I pictured above with flowers and bees. This avoids the ol' Blind Leading the Blind scenario. This way, there is always a structure to the pairings. For example, Triangles (low) and Circles (focus) will be bees and Rectangles (high) and Squares (medium) will be flowers. I selectively choose who is allowed to be a bee and who is allowed to be a flower based on the homogenous ability (shape) groups shown in the prior post found here. These adorable adjustable hats can be made out of any theme : frog and lilly pad, owl and tree, frog and insect, baby animal to adult animal, etc. No two bees may end up together nor two flowers. You guessed it the flowers must pair up with the bees. Like the foam partner sticks, students get one minute to find a partner and sit down together. After each child has pulled a stick I give the class 1 minute to find their partner and sit together. If you can get all three of the above you'll be good to go when it comes to partner talk.Ĭovers! Yet another way to sort Kindergarten students into pairs is with thematic hats! To assign RANDOM partners, I hold the cup up above the head of each child so they can't see inside the cup and have them select a stick. The matching stick is the same color and has the same sticker as well. Each foam popsicle stick has a sticker on the end. Partner Talk - Select a partner by matching the sticker To them the slightest change is like a whole new ballgame.īesides the trusty, "Turn to face your partner" trick, there are other ways to group children for partner talk that don't involve the carpet seating chart. Here are the contents of the other cup, my Chargers cup. I like to keep things different for my kinders. Yet another version of talking stick is plastic microphones from a local dollar store or the dollar bins at Target. After a few seconds I ring the bell and that is their cue to pass the talking stick. This ensures that children are also listening to their classmate. The rule is that only the child holding the talking stick may speak. The cup contains 12 sticks one for each pair of kids. I chose to add a parrot sticker on purpose because parrots talk a lot! A monkey stick will do the trick too! These popsicle sticks have stickers on the end and they are all the same. Talking Stick - Structured Language Practice The idea came from a book called, " Structured Language Practice." In our district, we nicknamed all the wonderful strategies in the book as "slips." (More on that later) Once I have students in the second and fourth row facing their partner, I pass out "Talking Sticks." They are pictured below. The importance of the seating chart on the classroom rug plays a big role in classroom management here. It is the best place for strategic partner talk in Kindergarten, First Grade, and Second Grade. The classroom rug is a learning environment within a learning environment. Here is another name recognition freebie: I use it in my homework packet the first two weeks of Kindergarten. With the sale discounts you'll be able to get them ALL. Ideal for Homework or Classwork the first month of Kindergarten or Preschool.Įvery product above is featured at less than $4.00. This activity is great for teaching students to recognize the letters in their name as well as the correct order of the letters. Great for Homework or Classwork.Ĭompletely Editable for names from 3 letters Just take your class list to the computer and directly input the names. This file is also completely editable to accommodate names from 3 letters long to 11 letters long.