Fun Friday...Ode to Teeny!

Hello!  Let me preface this post by saying this idea for Fun Friday was inspired by Teeny {I don't like to call her by her actual name b/c Teeny sounds cuter} over at A Teeny Tiny Teacher.  Her blog is great and also hilarious so you should def. follow her if you don't already!  You can read about how she does Fun Friday by clicking here.

When I saw Teeny's post on Fun Friday last year, I knew I wanted to do it!  We work our first graders so hard all week long that a Friday break is in order!  I began doing Fun Friday last year but I didn't have a board.  I wanted to make one but never found the time.  Here is what I did {in case you don't have time to make a board right now}:

• Selected a few areas that my students could visit {games, puzzles, whiteboard, computers, etc} 
• Wrote them on the board and decided how many students could visit that area
• Wrote corresponding numbers underneath {as shown below}

Computers
1.
2.
3.
4.

• Drew kids' names and had them tell me where they wanted to visit
• Wrote kids names next to the numbers
• Sent them off to have fun

It worked fine but sometimes I'd have limited time and I hated to spend time writing everything out.  Can you guess what was #1 on my summer to-do list!?  That's right.  I made my Fun Friday board! 

Here it is in all it's glory:

Ahead of time, I will decide which areas are open and how many students I want at each area.  I will put the craft sticks in as a visual to show my kids.  As I draw student names, they tell me where they'd like to go and I remove a stick from that area.  When all craft sticks are removed from an area, they will know to select a different spot.  *NOTE: I do not let my students switch spots during FF.  It would defeat the purpose of the board.  Plus, FF is typically only 20 minutes or so.

xo

Megan