Daily 5 stations first grade

Hi again friends…. I just wanted to take a couple of minutes and update you on our Daily 5 journey. Things are going smashingly well during Daily 5!! I am sooooooo happy! We have already hit our 20 minutes of Read to Self stamina…Can I get a WOOT WOOT! I wanted to show you the … Daily 5 Update…Lots of Pics! Read More »

Daily 5 anchor chart.

KINDERWORLD: The Daily 5 in Action

If you’ve read my blog before, you probably know that I use a Daily 5 structure to organize our reading time. I love the freedom, choice, and time spent reading/writing it offers my students. One of the most common questions/comments is “My students can’t handle choice. I’m doing Daily 5 just without the choice. My...

Hi All. Time for Part 2 of my three part series breaking down The Daily 5. In Part 2, we'll take a look at what you need to get started and the first days of The Daily 5, also known as "the launch."

We're sharing how we set up for Daily 5 rotations! Come check out our pictures and grab FREE resources! Expectations Posters Here's our take on the Daily 5 expectation posters! We keep these posters hanging in the room all year. In the beginning of the year, we continually refer to the posters as kiddos learn the rules and expectations of the Daily 5 routines. After Winter Break, we like to refer back to the posters. After a busy holiday season and a bit of time out of school, the review is…

In my school, we use daily 5 for reading instruction. I set up daily 5 a little bit different. I teach third grade and there is just so much to fit in! When I was trying to fit in all daily 5 rotations a day I was not getting to the important stuff and I was not having enough time with my students. So, I do one rotation a day for 20-30 minutes. The students do each rotations for daily 5 once a week and they meet with me once a week.

Take a look at how I set up my class and organize my stations for a successful start to Daily 5 in kindergarten.

Daily 5 anchor charts

It begins with a description of a Daily 5 classroom and makes me smile. The teacher is working with a single student or a group of students. Students know where classroom resources are and move comfortably and independently around the room. #daily5 #daily5kindergarten #daily5firstgrade #daily5secondgrade #daily5schedule #daily5organization

Each Monday we collaborate with our building's new and Dual Language staff members for a professional development session based on what they highlight as their needs and/or desires for learning! This week we focused on Daily 5 ideas as all of our staff are currently working hard to get their stations and guided reading up and running! The teachers who attending the session came up with a variety of wonderful ideas and activities that could potentially be used throughout the year in these…

Daily 5 Literacy Stations!!!! Holy email, you all have a ton of questions, and while I’d love to claim that I’m an expert, I can really only tell you how...

I started Daily 5 in 2011 and I feel like I am now comfortable enough to blog about it and how I started out. When I first started Daily 5 I was completely lost, I had no idea where to start or what to do. But then I discovered Pinterest, Oh My Word! I was in Education Heaven! I found the Daily 5 for Dummies compiled by Jayne Haenel. Click the picture to grab your copy. It has instructions for the first 20 days of the daily 5 with CAFE instructions also. It's an awesome resource and it has…

This is my 5th year using The Daily 5 in my classroom. Launching The Daily 5 is what I look forward to the most each fall. In this post I am going to explain how I manage The Daily 5 in my 2nd grade classroom. (The I-Chart templates are from Mrs. Jones' Creation Station.) 1. Read to Self Read to Self is the first activity I introduce to my students. I purchased my book bins from Really Good Stuff. They aren't the cheapest option, but they are well worth the money. I allow my students to have…

A Kindergarten/First Grade blog

Yesterday's organization linky party from Mrs. Patton's Patch was on literacy centers. As yesterday was a crazy day (make that Crazy with a capital C!) as Mondays tend to be, I'm a day late. :) Actually, I'm a day late and a little off topic, since I don't use literacy centers in my classroom. Centers just DON'T work for me and my kiddos. I use the Daily 3, an adapted version of the Daily 5. My Daily 3 are Read to Self, Work on Writing, and Word Work. Since I am required to use a basal…

Save time by incorporating a Grading Station into your math center routine in your elementary classroom! When students complete a math center with a recording page, they can take finished work to the grading station. They get to be the “teacher” and check their own work! This is a huge time-saver for me and also helps my students to be accountable! Read more to learn about how I set-up my Grading Station Tub for math centers, how I use this as assessment, and grab the grading station…