Desks of a Feather

It isn't really a wonder that the desks in my classroom shift every class. But how much they move over six class periods is astonishing. I mean, I've had an entire row shift by over a foot. It makes me think of birds and how social they are, how they flock together on telephone lines and in trees. Truly, students in my classroom aren't too unlike birds - their desks become an extension of their active bodies, and students are just "flocking" together, trying to be closer and bend around all the rules and requirements of a traditional classroom. And at the end of the day, I get to reset the desks and wait to see how far they move the next day.