We are all loving our new furniture. The kids come in each day and choose their "home base" seat for the day. This way they always have a place to "land" if I ask them to go back to their home base spot. We mainly use this seating during direct instruction at the SmartBoard and times when I need to have them work with their shoulder or face partners, etc. They are allowed to "work around the room" whenever they are working independently or in partnerships/small groups. This seems to be working well for us. Here are some photos of them working around the room.