Daily 5!

My kindergarten classroom uses Daily 5 every day and they do two rounds of it, with the students rotating through the different stations with their groups (based on their ability level). Most days, I get to do guided reading with at least one group, sometimes two. If the students aren't at guided reading, they do Writer's Workshop or take a game from a shelf. There are many games; most work on recognizing and writing words with the same beginning, middle or end sound. Some are putting together words based on pictures. The students are pretty self sufficient during Daily 5, but if they don't have an adult walking around and monitoring they can get off task pretty quickly. The routine for Daily 5 is spelled out really well, the students just sometimes don't always know what they need to be doing. It does flow really nicely though, and works well for the classroom!