I Teach K and Center Round-Up!

Have you made plans to attend the National Kindergarten Conference this summer?!  This conference is one of the best professional development opportunities out there for Kindergarten teachers because all of the sessions are targeted directly to US!  This is the 4th year I will be attending this conference and the 2nd year I am presenting.  This year I will be presenting TWO sessions.  Both are sessions that I am super passionate and excited about!

On Tuesday, July 8th at 1:00, I will be speaking about morning routines and how to start the day with a positive attitude (both you and your students :).  I will share with you about our morning routines, morning meetings, daily news and daily calendar time.  I hope that you can come and see this session – I am very excited about it!

My second session is immediately following my first on Tuesday, July 8th at 2:45.  I will discussing different ways to set up centers in your classroom – whether you are a daily 5 type teacher, a workstation or a literacy center type teacher, I will share with you ideas for management and super fun centers that your students will stay engaged with while you work with individuals or small groups of students.

Register NOW for early bird savings! (Last year my session sold out, so get it quick!)

 

I hope that I see you there!

Now on to centers….

My Daily 5 Rotations that I blogged about earlier are going GREAT.  Last week, I  made a few switches on how I rotate students through the activities, and I will share that with you when I feel it is SET….

Here is what I have in my Daily 5 Word Work Drawers last week and will finish up with this week…

This recording sheet is from a work work packet that I’m working on! Stay tuned!

and math centers…a mix of America centers and silly cat centers…

These activities came from:

 

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Seuss Week!

Here’s what is in my math and literacy center drawers for Seuss week!

Math Centers:

We’re still practicing with combining two numbers to find the sum.

Here the children will spin the spinner and fill in the missing number.

Here the children will practice subtraction.

The children will practice counting coins by 1s, 5s, and 10s.

And counting teen numbers, filling in 10 frames, and tallying! Phew! big job at this center!

Literacy Centers:

I decided to use my Lakeshore blend manipulatives with this center instead of rolling the dice.

Here the children will pull a picture out of a pocket and write the word and a word that rhymes with it.  I hadn’t finished the pockets while I was at school, but here’s a picture of them!

When you make them, it really isn’t necessary to glue them, but it helps.  Just make sure when you cut them out of the lamination you leave a bit of plastic around the edges.  I actually laminated mine twice for “safety.”  I’m sure I’ll still end up taping the ends because we all know some little ones are not gentle with our supplies

At this center, the kids will roll an onset dice and a rhyme dice to make a real or nonsense word.

Here the children are sorting short e word family words.

And last, but not least, an old favorite! Reading, stamping and writing sight words.

Here’s our plan for this week:

Tuesday – Silly Socks Day

Wednesday – Wacky Wednesday

Thursday – Crazy hat day

Friday – RED Day* and Green Eggs and Ham!

*This is a special even that we hold every month or so at our school, this time it falls on Dr. Seuss’s birthday! We are having a storyteller come into to “storytell” to all the students and then parents are invited back to the classroom to read with their kiddos! The children LOVE it, and it’s a great way to promote reading.  We give away lots of prizes too!  Everyone wears red that day, so I figured it would be a great day to make some “thing 1 and thing 2” hats as well. 

Our reading specialists have also made a very special reading room that we can take our kiddos to throughout the week and there are stop, flop and read stations throughout the hallways.  I’ll snap some pics this week and show them to you!

We’re still finishing up our American symbols studies – I’ll try to be back later in the week with some more pictures.

Happy Seuss week!

Do you have anything special planned?

Math and Literacy Centers

Here are our math and literacy centers for the next 2 weeks!

This is my “Lift the Flap” literacy center – the children lift the flap and try to decode the word based on the letter boxes.  I have made a word list for them to help them out a bit!

 

This is from Donna G.’s Dr. Seuss pack:

We are still working on our America unit (continuing next week!) so there are some America themed centers.  This one focuses on contractions and is from Deanna J’s America Pack.

Fun with real and “Dr. Seuss” words! The children roll the three letter cubes with the vowel in the middle, blend the word and determine if it is a real or nonsense word.

The kids LOVE this version of sight word writing! They spin to determine the word, and then spin again to determine what “tool” they will use – markers, colored pencils, or a fancy pencil!

 

This is my America Ending Sound Sort.  The children sort the words based on their ending sound and then write the word in the corresponding spot.

This is at the listening center:

Math Centers:

Dr. Seuss probability:

(Here she is sorting after she has pulled the hats out 10 times to see why one color was pulled out the most!)

Roll, subtract, and color (this one is from Kim A’s Dr. Seuss pack)

Standard and non-standard measuring:

More practice with time to the hour and half-hour.  The cards are all flipped over – on the other side are digital and analog clocks to play memory with

Dr. Seuss odd and even. (Sorry not a great shot!)

 

Spin and Graph! (From Kim A’s pack)