Flexible Seating in the Classroom: The World of Kinesthetic Learning!

My students need flexible seating to alleviate excessive fidgeting in a non-disruptive manner

My Students

My students walk into our classroom every day full of life and excited for what is in store for them that day. I want them to know I believe in them and they can do anything.

I teach at a Title I school in Georgia where 100 percent of our students receive free breakfast and lunch.

Many of my students receive backpack food on the weekend. Despite so many hardships, my students are eager to learn and do their best.

My Project

The scoop rocker, stability cushion, stackable stools, and lap desk will provide alternate seating necessary to alleviate excessive fidgeting in a non-disruptive manner allowing my students to quietly listen or complete independent work. These materials will not directly teach my students new skills, but they will help prime my students for learning in all content areas. For example, while I'm teaching a lesson on 2- digit addition, one of my students may be rolling around on the floor having difficulty maintaining their space. If the students had a constructive quiet way to release energy, I can continue teaching with minimum interruptions.

The donations for this project will improve my classroom by reducing the amount of behavioral issues, due to excessive movement.

With less behavioral issues, we can increase our learning and time on task. I'm looking forward to seeing my students happier and ready to learn.

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Reading / ELA - Unit 4: Lesson 16 - Astronauts {SMARTboard Activities}

Directions: To view the Notebook file choose: VIEW> ENTIRE PAGE depending on your monitor’s resolution. It is recommended NOT to save the file once you have downloaded and extracted. This way the games do not have to be re-set.

Supplemental Activities: Teacher created supplemental activities based on Journey’s First Grade reading series.

DOWNLOAD>> Unit 4: Lesson 16 - Astronauts {SMARTboard Activities}

SMARTBoad File Contains the Following Activities:

• Phonics:Long o Decoding
• Phonics:Spelling Words (Sound-by-Sound) 
• Phonics:Read the word and circle the matching picture. (Long o)
• Words to Know:Introduction
• Grammar:Question Anchor Chart
• Grammar:Circle the sentences that ask a question.
• Daily Proofreading
• Writing: Topic and supporting details.
• Grammar:Suffixes y and ful Anchor Chart
• Phonics:Sort pictures with the long o and short o middle sound.
• Phonics:Draw & Spell (Draw a picture card and spell the word with letter tiles.)
• Phonics:Find & Graph Long o Words
• Words to Know:Match sight words with clues.
• Grammar:Add correct punctuation.
• Grammar:Spin a Pattern (Take turns spinning the spinner. If you land on “ful” color a word that ends with the suffix -ful blue. If you land on “y” color a word that ends with the suffix -y red. Continue until all of the words have been colored.)
• Phonics:Hope Rode (Long o Reading Passage)
• Phonics:Name each picture and write the missing letter to complete the word.
• Words to Know:Asteroid Game ( Students take turns blasting the asteroids and naming the sight words underneath.
• Grammar:Use the words from the word bank and add the correct punctuation to complete the sentences.
• Grammar:Let the students take turns building words with the suffix -y and -ful. Decide if the word will work with the suffix. Drag the base word first, then the suffix.
• Writing:Quick Write writing prompts.
• Phonics:Unscramble your spelling words and match to the correct spelling on the astronauts.
• Phonics:Help Joe find his spaceship. Follow the long o words until you reach the spaceship. Click on the square. If it is green then the word is long o.
• Words to Know:Seek a Word
• Grammar:Spiral Review
• Phonics:Seek a Word (Spelling Words)
• Phonics:ABC Spelling Words
• Phonics:Which One Does Not Belong? (Say the pictures’ name and decide which picture does not belong)
• Words to Know:Sight Word Fill-in the Blank

1st Grade English Language Arts Georgia Standards of Excellence (ELAGSE): 

ELAGSE1RL1: Ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
ELAGSE1RF1: Demonstrate understanding of the organization and basic features of print.
a. Recognize the distinguishing features of a sentence (e.g., first word, capitalization, ending punctuation).
ELAGSE1RF2: Demonstrate understanding of spoken words, syllables, and sounds (phonemes). a. Distinguish long from short vowel sounds in spoken single-syllable words.
ELAGSE1RF3: Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding
words. 
c. Know final -e and common vowel team conventions for representing long vowel sounds.
ELAGSE1RF4: Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension. 
d. Read grade-appropriate irregularly spelled words.

Harriet Tubman {No-Prep Printables}

Contains the Following Activities:

• Color Vocabulary Cards
• Vocabulary Word Work (With vocabulary words and a blank template.)
• Reading Comprehension
• KWL Chart
• Fill-In the Blank, True, & False
• Word Search Informative Writing
• Label the Picture
• (6) Freedom Quilt Patterns
• Timeline Activity

DOWNLOAD>> Harriet Tubman {No-Prep Printables}

 1^st Grade Georgia Standards of Excellence:

ELA

ELAGSE1RL1: Ask and answer questions about key details in a text.

ELAGSE1RI10: With prompting and support, read informational texts appropriately complex for grade 1.

ELAGSE1W2: Write informative/ explanatory texts in which they name a topic, supply some facts about the topic, and provide some sense of closure.

Social Studies

SS1H1: Read about and describe the life of historical figures in American history.

a. Identify the contributions made by these figures: Benjamin Franklin (inventor/author/statesman), Thomas Jefferson (Declaration of Independence), Meriwether Lewis and William Clark with Sacagawea (exploration), Theodore Roosevelt (National Parks and the environment), George Washington Carver (science), and Ruby Bridges (civil rights).