Center Saturday

Welcome to

This is my weekly center post dedicated to my favorite time of the day…

center time!

This week my

{one term for my amazing students…}

have been learning about

-letter l blends like bl, cl, fl, gl, and sl

-subtraction

-life cycles

and so much more!

Here is a peek at my 6 weekly work centers:

Let’s break down these centers a little more.

All my stations are color coded on my blog and in my classroom.

Yellow- Math- Our math station featured these bunny notepads that I re purposed as a fun math practice activity.

{After all, the appeal of a station is the most important aspect of the station for young ones.

Content is what WE want…

so we have to combine the two ideas.}

Here is how I made this activity.

I took the pack of 50 notepad sheets and divided them into 5 piles of 10 sheets each. Then I took a different color marker for each of the 5 piles and wrote one subtraction problem on each sheet. {Meaning, each child would get one problem on each of the 10 sheets AND they would be color coded.}

I also added counting “dots” to the bottom of some of the piles, but not all of them.

{Since Easter can be early or late this helps me differentiate to my kinders ability levels at these different times.}

I laminated, hole punched, and binder ringed the like colored notepads.

Each student can pick one set of bunnies and complete the subtraction problems.

http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Eggcellent-Secret-Code-Words-607562

My orange center is for writing.

{Sometimes this means independent writing, while other times it is dedicated for handwriting, but this week it is for writing words}

This week we completed some sight word eggs using our Eggcellent Code Breaker Sheet.

This is a great and engaging way to get your students review numbers and letters, handwriting, and the idea that letters make words. I also require my students to read to me their sight word creations, which adds another skill to work towards.

{You can pick up this activity by clicking here.}

http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Sight-Word-Stations-Primer8-1214219

Reading center is red…

red for reading…

it just makes sense!

Since we were working so hard on our

Sight Word Stations,

it makes sense for us to tie in with this

Read, Make, Write sheet from my Primer Week 8 set, which covers the words;

with, saw, this, who, pretty, please.

My students read their sight word, cut and paste the letters provided to create it, then they write it.

Before they can be checked off for this station, they also have to read me each sight word. I ask them the words out of order to make sure they are reading the words and not memorizing the order.

{Sight Word Station Primer Week 8 is here, and the whole Primer Bundle is here.}

The purple center is for phonics.

Since we are covering the “l” blends this week,

I grab this cut and sort from The Mailbox as a great review.

This center was simple and to the point.

I have two unit centers each week. This unit center is dedicated to watching our potato roots grow and change.

We have been watching and documenting these potato’s roots since March and they are pretty awesome. Each week we draw a picture of the potato and write a sentence about how it has changed.

Since a potato usually grows in the ground, most of my

have never seen anything like this.

It is gross and awesome at the same time.

Best yet, my kids are busy predicting what is going to happen. They thing the potato is rottening.

They have no discovered that each eye of the potato is actually a SEED.

{St. Patrick’s Day paddy Potato Project is FREE here.}

Another unit center was for an Easter Chick art project my kiddos could complete independently. I left all the materials and directions at this center. I pre-cut the strips for the legs, triangle feet, and diamond beak. {The beak gets folded in half, so it looks like a triangle.

My students had to trace and cut out the oval egg shape. Then they had to trace their hand prints and cut the out for the wings. Next, they had to glue down the wings and both feet. Last, they add the beak and feet as well as add any details to the chick.

In honor of all things centers, I am going to open up my blog to let other join in for a linky party dedicated to centers.

If you have a center post {past or present} you want to share to showcase your