I have neglected my simple little blog for way too long. It has been a very busy and crazy first month of school. I have a few pictures to post to show you what we have been doing.
We had so much fun making shapes in shaving cream. The room smelled so clean!!!!!!
A few pictures of our work stations:
Rolling playdough snakes to make color words and letters.
Sorting letters by straight, curves and both, and also by capitals and lowercase - this is an activity from Lakeshore
These wonderful stuffed letters were my amazing find at a garage sale this summer. I got the whole set for a few dollars. I ran colored pictures on card stock, laminated and voila an instant workstation that my kiddos have been loving!
Rainbow writing. This has also been a well-loved work station. They love to use the markers! I need to find a different way to bind the books together next year though! The books are too thick to stay together with the staples. I either need to bind with combs, which I don't want to do, or find longer staples!!
Of course the ever popular listening center with a response to literature sheet to go along with the story. This is Chicka Chicka Boom Boom.
My poetry notebook workstation. This workstation is one that I am very proud of. Each student has a poetry notebook three-ringed binder. Every Monday we introduce 2, or if I am ambitious 3, new poems. Then when it is there turn to go to the station they listen to me reading the poems in order that they are in their notebook. When the tape is over they do the directions that are at the bottom of the poem such as circling the capital and lower case letters and they of course illustrate the poems. Keeps my kiddos engaged for the duration of workstation time! Yeah!
Stamping names in playdough.. I have the letter stampers from Lakeshore - they are well worth the cost!
At the pocket chart workstation students were sorting letters into capitals and lowercase. After they sorted they had a response sheet that went along with the center. They were writing the letters that they sorted!
Computers - who doesn't love the computer workstation! It was so amazing to show my kinders how to use the Starfall website on my amazing new document camera. Let me tell you I am loving that little device!
This was the activity that my students did with my assistant in a small group. They chose a card from the stack, identified the letter, found it on their sheet and colored the apple. I honestly can not remember where I got this apple sheet, but I do know that it was from one of you wonderful bloggers. If it is yours please let me know and I will give you credit and link it to your blog!!!!!
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