Recent Changes

I have decided to allow my students to pick their centers instead of me assigning them their centers. This is the chart they use to pick. All the student does is change their clip every morning to a color they haven't gone to this week. Everyone is required to go to every color in the week.

Read to Self is not a choice because everyone will go to read to self during the reading block. Everyone also sees me during the reading block for their reading group. I am doing 3 rotations so everyone does read to self, the center they chose, and reading groups. I also have 4 mini lessons. This have been working wonderfully in my classroom and the students are being very responsible.

Pink- Read to Someone & Listening
Green- Word Work
Orange- Computers
Blue- Writing

At first I wasn't keeping track of which centers they chose, but I had one student who couldn't remember what happened on the previous day so all students have a simple chart that they record their selection on for each day. That way they are responsible for making sure they choose each color once that week. I collect those charts on Thursday afternoon to look over just to make sure they are using them correctly. After 3 weeks I haven't had any issues. Trusting them is very important and seems to be paying off for me.