Last year, I taught math in the morning and loved it. Students line up to switch classrooms for math with math journal and pencil boxes in hand.
This year my favorite teacher down the hall and I switch a handful of students to better differentiate our groups. I like to use earning choice time as a whole-class-incentive to keep our transitions quick throughout the day (to earn more time to play) and to help students follow the multi-step end of day procedures efficiently. They can choose from things like Legos, blocks, house, games, dress-up, and the rest of the goodies I have stashed away. What is choice time? I stash a set of 4-5 choice activities behind the folder icon on our agenda that are like a surprise each day. If a student successfully follows through with the steps and the alarm for math hasn’t gone off on my cell phone yet then they have a few precious moments to have choice time.