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Medulla Elementary School
Lakeland, FL
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Flexible Seating to Focus Students
Funded Jun 25, 2024
Thank you for the wonderful donation of the stools and the wobble discs. My fourth graders were pleased and excited when they first began using this alternative seating. Six months later they are still enthusiastic and want to use them.
My students enjoy utilizing the wobble discs at their seats and on the floor. They can wiggle their feet and wobble to help them stay engaged. The students look so comfortable and relaxed while they use a wobble disc and read. They love to choose which stool they like the most and either sit at the small group table or use them at their desks. Sometimes they even use both at the same time!
Without your generous donation, this could not have been possible for my students. In the future, I would like to implement a variety of flexible, seating for my students to stay engaged and enjoy learning.”
With gratitude,
Ms. Shipley
This classroom project was brought to life by Bezos Family Foundation and 4 other donors.

The main goal for flexible seating in my classroom is to accommodate my students' learning styles and give them the freedom to choose how and where they sit while being engaged in learning. I have already seen the benefits and advantages of providing the students with seating choices using other types of alternative seating. I watched as several of my students who typically tapped their pencils, hummed, looked around the room, and disturbed others during assignments and assessments transform into focused, engaged, and eager learners. My students will be able to choose from a plethora of flexible seating, allowing them to choose what fits their learning style best. The wobble stools will mostly be used at my small group table for the students to work out their wiggles while I remediate or challenge their phonics, fluency, comprehension, and writing in skill based groups. If they choose, they may also replace their chair with a wobble stool during whole group lessons. Whether students read books independently or with a partner, practice their fluency skills, or work on an assignment or group project, they may decide to have fun sitting and even rocking on a colorful surf writing lap desk. Finally, the wobble cushions (stability discs) will be available for the students to use around the room to complete assignments, read books, play learning based games on a tablet, or to sit and wiggle out their energy at low tables with laptops and tablets. They will be trained how to safely use the flexible seating and have visual reminders of the procedures for using them. I am confident that when the students pick where they want to work they will become more focused and independent.

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