Do Students Get Bored?
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Colleagues are frequently concerned about students who've had one or more years experience with the Daily 5. Will they be bored? Will their learning become stagnant within the familiar framework?
Daily 5 is a reliable menu of anticipated activities. Students who have had experience with the Daily 5 will need a brief review of the procedures and expectations of independent behaviors, then will be ready to dive into their self-selected books and to write more, with greater stamina, because they have a previous understanding of the urgency and purpose behind the Daily 5 activities.
We love this quote by Lucy Calkins, "It is significant to realize that the most creative environments in our society are not the ever-changing ones. The artist's studio, the researcher's laboratory, the scholar's library are each deliberately kept simple so as to support the complexities of the work-in-progress. They are deliberately kept predictable so the unpredictable can happen. 1983, p32. Lessons from a Child. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann.
We believe the predictable structure of the Daily 5 produces the right environment for tremendous learning and growth to occur, whether students are embarking on it for the first time, or for the fifth year in a row.
