The Seating

When Nancer was here visiting, we got into some school talk.  Sketchnoting during read aloud time?  Chart Making with Roz Linder's book?  Global Read Aloud?

We have about one month left of summer vacation, so this seems about right.  Today I woke up thinking about flexible seating, where kids have access to yoga balls and comfy chairs around the room. Flexible seating makes me feel some kind of way.

Around this time in July, I'm always tempted to start looking for new cool chairs for the Thirdlanders. It doesn't make sense because flexible seating causes nothing but problems for me, year after year.

Last year I had 4 yoga balls in my room and there were 4 kids who figured out how to own those yoga balls 80% of the time.  So then we had to talk about that and sort out who gets to use the yoga balls.  Annoying as all get out.

I googled Why Flexible Seating Didn't Work in My Classroom and read several essays about what a time suck flexible seating can be, what with the territoriality and the bouncing and the sticking the pencils into chairs where pencils shouldn't go.  I'm familiar with all of it.  So am I finally ready to ditch the idea of flexible seating?  Last year I bought these square cushions and everyone has one. Isn't that enough?

I might get a couple of standing tables. Maybe Husbandman can make one for me. He used to be a carpenter.