Daily 5

Can I just say I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE the Daily 5?! I mean like seriously love it! It's super easy to do (i.e. little planning) and completely fabulous! I only have time for 3 rounds during my guided reading time, but completely love it! I did have a little trouble in the beginning because I felt like I wasn't doing anything with all the teaching of the behaviors, but I am now a believer! My students refer to the I-Charts and I guide them back to the I-charts when there are inappropriate behaviors.  I am letting my firsties choose their own rounds, which was super difficult for this control freak, but they are doing awesome with it! I have to keep my eye on the little stinkers because they would totally spend all 3 rounds at Working on Words if possible! :-)

 I found these AWESOME daily 5 cards on Teachers pay teachers here by Andrea Daigle. They are free and I LOVE them! The Listen to Reading isn't on here because they are still building up enough stamina to be able to do it for a center. Behind those awesome purple smileys are little pictures of my firsties.  I have velcro circles on these posters and on their browsing boxes.  The pictures stay on the browsing boxes unless they are doing Daily 5 rotations.  (My awesome co-worker thought of the velcro idea! Check out her blog!)

Here is one of my cuties doing Working on Writing! 

Two of my fab firsties doing Read to Self! 

These two sweeties are doing Read to Someone using my awesome new whisper phones thanks to Donors Choose. (Notice that they are sitting EEKK! This has taken A LOT of practice!)

So here are a few things I have found that I love for Daily 5 (mostly from the millions of blogs I follow or my fav...Pinterest)!

This is an awesome resource I found from Crazy For First Grade.  I used all the pages to reinforce the kids reading the I-charts.

This chart from What the Teacher Wants! is a lifesaver!!!!! I love it! In fact, her entire post about Daily 5 is fabulous! 

These awesome stamina graphs are also from What the Teacher Wants! The kids LOVED coloring in the minutes we were able to get to each day! 

I am so loving Daily 5 and how little planning it takes! Keep your eyes peeled for my Working on Words post coming soon! :-) I'll share all the activities/materials I have in my Working on Words area and hopefully get some new ideas from you! :-)