Using Daily 5 for Language Arts has been a common practice here in Coppell ISD for quite some time. Last year, Kasey Kemp, a TCE 2nd/3rd grade math/science educator, and her partner- Meredith Garnier decided it would be pretty awesome to do Daily 5 for math after seeing the success that their ELA counterparts were having with it. So they sat down with Diana Saylak, CISD math coach, and came up with the components of Daily 5 for math. I had the opportunity to go see Kasey's class recently and was highly impressed to see how independent her learners were working and how much time Kasey has to pull small groups. In fact, she was reteaching a concept to two learners while I was there.
She initially got it started the same way most educators start Daily 5 for ELA- with a TON of modeling and practicing. Usually the rotations are the same for a week or two depending on the work required within each of the stations.
This is how she determines who is in each rotation. Her learners move their picture to the correct station.
She keeps most of the organizational material in these buckets.
One of the rotations allows her learners to design a quilt square that has a certain number of predetermined shapes.
These gentlemen were building a 3D structure where they were going to have to find the area, perimeter, and even volume.
Then fill out this sheet with their structure.
This learner was working on responding to some questions on Edmodo after watching a blended learning video.
You know, I love a good anchor chart!
If you have any questions about 2nd grade's Daily 5 rotations, feel free to email Kasey and ask!
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