The big question in education is how can we keep students in one room, engaging our learners, and still allowing them to be well... KIDS?! Every school and every district will have different needs, but one thing I am sure that will be the same is this: no contact. So let's dive into how we can still make and manage no contact centers in Kindergarten. What Do I Call Centers? Every teacher, … [Read more...]
Centered on Learning: The Letter Uu
Let's talk about some skill building, engaging activities we can use with out students to get them excited about learning. After all, eager learners who WANT to work on skills are the students we want to have. We don't get these types of students instantly. We have to prep and plan for these types of activities to get students "centered on learning." And specifically this week, I want my … [Read more...]
Centered on Learning: Letter Ii
Let's get talking about center time and how we can get our students centered on learning activities that are cross curricular and engaging, In this case, how we can get them centered on learning: Letter Ii. Time is always my enemy. The desire to make activities cross curricular so it layers my activities and learning is real. I integrate as many of our weekly topics into skill building … [Read more...]
Centered On Learning: The Letter Gg
How can we allow our students to practice building skills and working with learning ideas in a way that is engaging, fluid, and leveled? We allow our students to have time during centers! We want to be centered on learning. Centers are often referred to by many terms by teachers and organized in many different ways. Some people refer to this time as small groups, stations, or even something … [Read more...]
10 Steps to Center Success
10 Steps to Center Success is here! FLASHBACK to my first year teaching: The thought of center time raised my blood pressure. I was flat out scared to give my children even a small bit of control in my room. It was 100% MY FEAR and 0% developmentally okay. Looking back, why did I think that 4 year olds in PreK could do this and my own 5 year olds could not? So I finally, reluctantly did … [Read more...]
Center Saturday
Hi sweet friends. We are almost done with school here in GA. In fact we have 15 days left or 3 weeks of school. What does that mean? This is one of the last for this school year. So let's to it and allow me to show you our math centers for the week while we learned about insects. We used the book The Grouchy Ladybug as a learning tool this week. My yellow table was our time … [Read more...]
Center Saturday
I hope you guys are ready for a few math center ideas we used this week as we learned about insects. The yellow table held our graphing center. I made this simple graph sheet for some insect erasers. I got these erasers {here} on amazon. And to tell you the truth, I am not loving this graphing sheet that I made about 9 years ago. So I stopped the presses and made you guys a … [Read more...]
Center Saturday
Hi Sweet, Sweet Friends! I am so glad to be bring you another edition of Center Saturday. This most is dedicated to talk about my MATH weekly work centers. We have completed all our Math Standards for the year, so now we are in complete review and cycling our curriculum to make sure we haven't forgotten anything. Our theme this week were Plants and Gardens. Our yellow table hosted our … [Read more...]
Center Saturday
This was such a fun week at school. We wrapped up St. Patrick's Day. We started talking about pets. We also covered the letter Xx. I am loving the variation of skills my students are able to practice. We introduced subtraction using manipulative. I insist on practicing BOTH addition and subtraction skills. Why? After teaching kinders for ten years and doing these skills over and … [Read more...]
Center Saturday {with a freebie}
Welcome to my weekly post dedicated to MATH CENTERS. This week, we had a blast with Dr. Seuss, Presidents' Day and US Symbols, and St. Patrick's Day to help us to to review and learn more about math. I try to mix and match our math centers to cover MANY skills for our Some of these are a remediation or review to keep our learned skills in those brains. Other skills are fun … [Read more...]
Center Saturday
Hi all! Are you ready for CENTER SATURDAY!?! This is the weekly blog post where I show you are math centers from the week and tell you all about them. The goal is to inspire your center time activities to be more fun and engaging. This past week, we had MLK Jr. day off on Monday, so it was a short week. I also new our curriculum was full because I was teaching about MLK Jr. AND I had … [Read more...]
Center Saturday
Welcome to a weekly post where I show you and tell you all about my weekly math centers. My have 5-6 math centers to practice those skills we have been learning about and building our knowledge about each week. I encourage them to work on two centers a day, hopefully allowing them to complete all their centers before Thursday. {This gives me time to review and help those who … [Read more...]
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