Flexible Seating

Home base: Everyday when you come into class, you will sit at your assigned "home base."

Home base 2: Your home base will change every two weeks. On a Monday.

Home base 3: During the beginning of class, you sit in home base. You do not move. Then, during work time, you CAN move but you do not have to give up your home base if you do not want to.

However, the idea behind flexible seating is that you DO move around depending on what works for you for different activities.

Flexible seating is NOT first come first serve.

You will be assigned a zone. Zone 1 will choose these first few weeks, then zone 2 and so forth. Then, the next two week period, zone 2 will choose first and so on.

What NOT to do

Yoga balls: No bouncing too high, no dribbling, no throwing, no laying on them or jumping towards them. No poking or prodding

Wobble chairs: No spinning around over and over. Just wobble back and forth

Bean bags: Must grab a lap desk. No laying down and sleeping

Standing desks: No drawing on desks or going overboard with the leg swing

Pillows, Blankets and Lap Desks: Put them back when you are done.

Tall tables and stools: Do not wobble back and forth. It will break them.

Consequences for not following expectations

DO NOT DO ANYTHING TO LOSE YOUR P.O.C.
(POWER OF CHOICE)

Consequences for misbehavior

• Struggle zone: I will choose your seat and it will most likely be in the struggle zone
• Review of contract with Ms. Nielsen and struggle zone
• Call home to discuss options with parent. And assign detention
• Referral and loss of flexible seating for a month

If you damage materials on purpose, you will no longer participate in flexible seating. For the whole year.

When subs are here....

It is essential that you follow through the same way you would when I was here. If you can not, you will lose all flexible seating privileges. If your name is written down, you are done.

Respect me, respect our classroom