For my 2nd and 3rd sessions of class we need to use the technology lab; this means, we need to practice lining up quietly and safely; yes safely, many of us seem to have on hyper throttle shoes! This means I get the wonderful opportunity to reach into my lining up strategies bag and pull out some wonderful ways to line up!
Here are some I use:
- Lining up by the amount of syllables in their first or last names
- Lining up by even and odd amount of letters in first or last names
- Lining up by their favorite ice cream topping
- Lining up by the amount of vowels in their first or last names
- Lining up by their birthday month
- Lining up by the amount of people in their family
- Lining up by their shoe size
- Lining up by their eye color
- Lining up after they have told me the answer to a math fact
- Lining up after they have told me a synonym or antonym to a word I give them
- Lining up after they tell me 3 verbs, nouns, adjectives, etc.
- Lining up after they spell a spelling word
- Lining up after they tell me 5, 10, 100 more than the number I give them
- Lining up after they tell me a city in WI
- Lining up after they tell me a set of homophones
- Lining up after they tell me two rhyming words with the word I give them.
- Lining up after they tell me an asking, telling, command, or an expression sentence
- Lining up after they tell me a fact family statement or a turn around fact and its answer
- Lining up after they tell me a double fact and its answer
