The expectations for early elementary students have continued to increase over the years. This often leaves teachers looking for ways to fit additional academic skill practice into the daily routine. Teaching with centers is a great way to add engaging and meaningful review to your classroom all year long! 7 Benefits of Teaching with Centers There are many reasons why teachers decide to use centers in their classrooms. No matter their inspiration for teaching with centers, they all ... continue reading...
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August Centers for Kindergarten & First Grade
Are you already thinking about what activities to use when school is back in session? I know I am! Honestly, the first few weeks can be tough since students need time to adjust to the classroom and learning environment. The activities selected need to show students how much fun their classroom is while also supporting the learning needs of all students. Thankfully, August centers for Kindergarten & First Grade will be engaging and educational! Students will be so excited to start a new ... continue reading...
21 Kindergarten Math Centers to Practice Numbers to 10
21 Kindergarten math centers to practice numbers to 10. Digital, black & white, and color options that match up to the Common Core Standards. Kindergarten Math Centers Research says that in order to develop a strong understanding of quantity, and how to manipulate quantities, children need plenty of counting opportunities. Eventually, counting needs to become automatic. (DREME Network) I've created 21 math centers that support counting and cardinality. Within these centers, students ... continue reading...
Centers for Kindergarten | Math and Literacy Activities
These centers for kindergarten are perfect for Spring! Printable and easy to prep centers for students to practice math and literacy skills. Centers for Kindergarten Center time in kindergarten is a time for students to develop and practice various math and ELA skills. We want center activities to be engaging and serve as an independent activity for students. During literacy and math centers, teachers are typically working in small groups. This should be a time, teachers can focus on their ... continue reading...
Math Centers for Numbers to 100
Learning how to work with numbers can be stressful to students. Often, this is due to how many numbers there are and all of the different skills to learn. However, math is everywhere in life, so it is vital for students to have a strong understanding. To build this understanding in a stress-free environment, the Number to 100 Math Centers will be incredibly beneficial! These centers will help ensure that when working on numbers to 100, students are supported through enjoyable yet rigorous ... continue reading...
The Best Digital Literacy Centers for Kindergarten & 1st Grade
Digital literacy centers for kindergarten and 1st grade to practice ELA skills. Students practice word families, blends, rhyming, syllables, digraphs, vowel sounds, and more! Digital Literacy Centers for Kindergarten Easy and quick-prep digital literacy centers are here! You can easily infuse technology into your classroom or use these centers during distance learning. These engaging ELA activities are available as PowerPoints. This way, you can access the center activities on a ... continue reading...
Fall Digital Centers for Kindergarten and First Grade
ELA Digital centers that are perfect for the Fall season. Students practice rhyming, syllables, beginning sounds, word families, letter recognition, and more! Digital Centers Kids love using technology and are easily engaged while using it. As teachers, we want to incorporate that excitement into their learning. Use these centers to infuse technology into your classroom and practice math and literacy skills, all at the same time! These NO PREP, digital resources can be used in ... continue reading...
Letter Identification and Concepts of Print Digital Centers
Letters are hard to learn! First, there are 26 different ones to know. On top of that, there are 2 versions of each letter in the form of uppercase and lowercase! Second, those letters all have an individual sound. This means that students have to be able to look at a letter and understand the sound it makes. Third, students must learn how all those sounds blend to create words. Of course, there are always exceptions and rules for students to learn as they progress through school. ... continue reading...
Beginning Sounds Digital Centers
Teachers spend hours creating lessons students will love. They know that students understand the material deeper when they show engagement in the lesson. However, there are some topics that students may grow bored of learning. Or, the topic is so challenging that the stress negatively impacts learning. Thankfully, teachers know they can add in special elements, such as technology, to help overcome any obstacles! For instance, the Beginning Sounds Digital Centers bring exciting ways to practice ... continue reading...
Math Centers for Kindergarten to Practice Numbers to 100
Engaging math centers for you to easily target and differentiate math standards for your kindergarten students. Math Centers for Kindergarten Several kindergarten math standards focus on numbers to 100. Students, of course, need to know how to count and write numbers. They also need to be able to count on from a given number and represent numbers using math manipulatives. These digital and printable math centers can help you provide practice for students to master numeral-focused ... continue reading...
27 Math Centers to Practice Numbers to 30 in Kindergarten
Numbers to 30 digital and printable math centers! Numeral writing, counting mats, geoboard number cards, centers, response sheets, and even more! Numbers to 30 Centers It is important to have students practicing relevant skills during centers. Center activities should be a practice of the skill you are currently teaching or skills that you've taught that need a little extra review. All in all, you want students to be independent during center time so you can work with small groups. ... continue reading...
Walruses, Literacy Centers and Guided Reading, oh, my!
We made these adorable walruses from my Arctic Animals unit today. I love how they all turned out so unique. Our penguins are still fishing on our bulletin board so the herd of walruses won't be hung up until next week when we use them to decorate our polar bears and walruses venn diagram. I will post a pic next week when they are all hanging. So, I've had some questions about how I do Literacy Centers.This is a picture of my Literacy Center board. The pirates on ... continue reading...
How to Start Teaching Writer’s Workshop in Kindergarten & First Grade
Do you struggle with how to get started? Writer's Workshop in kindergarten and first grade classrooms is one of the most powerful components. In Writing Workshop in kindergarten and first grade, students are encoding words that come from their thoughts and feelings, which is a much easier skill than decoding. Successful writers become successful readers! So, how do you get started? The answer is simple. Just jump right in!! I usually start at the beginning of the ... continue reading...
What are the Other Kids Doing? {FREEBIE} Literacy Centers and Guided Reading
As I'm traveling and presenting this is a question I get A LOT! What are the Other Kids Doing while I teach small groups? So I thought I'd spend a week or two going through some of the things that my kids are doing while I teach small groups. Let's start with the basics. As I'm teaching small groups my kids are working at centers. This is my center rotation board. It helps me manage where my students are working each day. The first row of pirates shows the name of my groups. I ... continue reading...
Valentine’s Day Centers! Love, Tweet Love!
The Littles LOVE these center activities! They are a great way to reinforce the skills we've been working on and the kids don't even realize they are actually working! :) Key to My Heart For this center they have to match the key to the heart it belongs to by making sums of 10. I always made a sums to 20 version for my Littles who need to be pushed a little more. Monster Measurement This Littles measure the monsters using the heart rulers. Then, they record their measurements ... continue reading...
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