I typically post my centers for a Center Saturday post, but this week we didn’t have centers!
We had a 3 day week, so I didn’t put out work centers for my students to work on.
Instead, I thought I would use this short week to begin our choice board in our Daily 5 journey.
(We have taught and modeled each element in the Daily 5 for about 2 months now. We have also built stamina. My students have already been able to choose between Reading to Self and Reading to Others for a set amount of time.)
Here is a shot at my choice board. I have 4 slots of each station
1. Read to self
2. Read to someone
3. Teacher (with me)
4. Listening to Reading
5. Word Work
6. Learning (with my aid)
7. Writing
My students put a little name tag with their picture on the station they are at. I can’t show you them since they have my students names and pictures on them.
I try to put most stations at a specific color table… hence the colors and matching baskets. That is the color table they can go to.
Students do not have to go to a table to Read to Self or Read to Someone.
Here are some of the activities we worked on with the Daily 5 this week.
I focused on the book, There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Bat by Lucille Colandro.
I used this book (I have 3 copies)
and a B&W reader I created for our book boxes. I am also going to be using this reader with my group on Monday. We are working on the Practice and Read Again strategy.
I downloaded this book onto my Storia App from Scholastic for the iPads for our listening station using my scholastic dollars.
I also had a few different pumpkin books on tape for my students to listen to.
We also did some writing about the story which my class rocked! They did so great writing and drawing relevant pictures! I was so proud.
For word work, we put together puzzles with words and we did sentence scrambles.
(We did a few more activities but I don’t have pictures of them.)
We still have a few kinks to work out with our system.
I have a few friends that struggle with finishing activities and get distracted.
(Like most 5 year old do!)
Are you using a choice board with your students yet?
What do your students struggle with the most?
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How did you buy the book with scholastic dollars? Are those the same as bonus points? I have the app and lots of bonus points and would love more books!
I go into my store at scholastic, shop for ebooks, and they have an option for a price or points. If I have enough points, i choose that option.
We have a choice board.. They have 1 must do first then 2 other choices. The choices aren't my problem. ITs the creating and explaining and planning each and every week new centers. I get frustrated that it takes way too much time both explaining and planning. I sometimes feel like I spend more time planning centers than I do my lessons which I need to spend more time on the lessons than centers… and I do use a lot of TPT stuff that is print and laminate but that takes time too … so its frustrating.
I make so much stuff it is almost sad (obviously!) but I have been doing this for years! I think the first year is always the hardest, but when you get to this time next year, you will be SO GLAD you have so many things ready! I love opening my files to GOOD stuff that is already prepped and ready! I hope it gets easier. Does it help when I post these activities for you?
I have been teaching for 12 years so I have a ton of stuff. Its just all the changes Kindergarten has gone through in the last 5-8 years. Especially now. Its very frustrating but thats another issue. Your posts are very helpful
Thank you Mary!!! I figured out how to buy a couple of books with points!!!!
SO glad to hear! WOO HOO free ebooks!
Thank so much for your great resources, Mary. I have started my Daily 5 journey this year and it is slow going. I love it, but we've only done Read to Self and now we are starting on building Stamina for Word Work and Work on Writing. My school adopted Imagine It (Open Court) so it's hard to do that "with fidelity" and practice Daily 5 all in a 3.5 hour day. As for 'centers' I try to keep the general format of the activities the same so I don't have to explain new activities each week.The sight words change but they are still writing them on whiteboards, rolling and graphing them, word search, tracing, wikki sticks, pokey pins etc. I throw in some theme stuff every once in a while to keep it fresh, but I can't prepare new centers every week and expect to keep my sanity (or my husband!)
I just came across this post in search of how to be effective in using Daily 5 in Kindergarten next year. This year, I have been coming up with centers, and it is a LOT of work, but I am liking how you did it, so I will probably be doing something similar! 🙂
Erin
Very Perry Classroom