![]() ![]() They could lay on the floor, sit on the floor, sit on a chair/ ball chair/crate, sit/kneel at a low table, stand at a shelf or stand at a table. What alternative seating options do they regularly have?Īlmost every time there was work to be done, students would have a new choice. Several questions have popped up over time that I thought may be helpful to compile for you. My philosophy really became, “sit, kneel, stand – just learn!” It was freeing for me. It soon became very normal for my kinders to be found practically all over the room and even under the tables regularly. Students used their pencil boxes for help writing their name if needed – or their workmat, or their cubbie or their name somewhere else since it was printed in a gazillion different places. ![]() We used them heavily the first month of school and then used them as needed to keep projects organized. What ended up really working for us was using art folders or workmats. And for my new students, well… they didn’t know any different. For me, it didn’t seem to feel radically different like I anticipated. The next year I started with brand new kinders. The initial excitement of the novelty of it all, turned into buzzing productivity that lasted for the rest of the year. Students came back after a weekend and the room was completely different. Then I jumped in to using flexible seating without having all of the answers and every detail figured out. So I did exactly as I write about on this blog… I thought about it. It’s part of my process – it’s what I do. When I decided to get rid of my teacher desk and I began to rearrange furniture… the whole experience snowballed into questioning why each student had to have a “seat.” I had no idea what the alternative would be, could or should be. I’ve always built choice into my year-long literacy centers and loved the results of having empowered learners. I like the idea of offering choice whenever possible. I’ve started it on day one and also after the year was already under way. Yes, you can totally do this in kindergarten and it doesn’t matter when you start. Here is an additional way to offer choice to students using alternative seating in kindergarten. There’s so much to be said for offering choice in the classroom. ![]()
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