4 Corners Strategy and How I use it

Another GREAT cooperative learning strategy that I use for my first graders is the four corners strategy. This is another one that gets the kiddos up and moving. This can be done with so many different subjects and lessons. The way 4 corners is set up is you make a statement and then the students move to one of the corners. The corners can be labeled strongly agree, agree, disagree, and strongly disagree. But as I said it can be modified to assign certain answers to each corner. You can do it as a get to know you activity in the first week of school or ask questions and have the students move to the correct answer. You can post signs in each corner with numbers 1-4 or the letters A-D. I usually begin everyone question with what is your favorite color to start it off. What you do is you ask a question with 4 possible answers. So for example, what’s your favorite color blue, pink, red, yellow. You point to the corners as you say the answers and the students move to the corner of their choosing. You can also just do this activity with 2 answer by just splitting the room in half and saying move to this side if you like blue better than pink, and this side if you like pick better than blue. As you can see it’s pretty flexible and can be done with any questions you would like to ask. I love doing this on the first day of school to get to know what the kids like and don’t like.