We have three center times each day. In the morning we have our literacy block centers (storytelling center, listening center, literacy center, writing center, art center, computer center). In the afternoon we have our math block centers (three math tables and the block building center). At the end of the day we have our content centers (dramatic play, blocks, science center, sand/water center, free drawing art center). Here are some pictures of just a few things we did this week!
We do a lot of sorting. Sometimes we tell them how to sort objects, but more often we give them objects and see what they do with them. This student took out the cubes and sorted by color. However, when I asked him to tell me what he was doing, he told me that he was "making them all two, see, one, two." He was referring how how his cubes were stacked in rows of two. So he was paying attention not only to the color of the cubes but the height and rows of the cubes. Fantastic!
Learning to button with button boards!
Writers at work! They select their own medium to write on (there is an adjacent table out of the picture's view covered with different kinds of paper...construction paper, storyboard paper, chart paper, booklets, etc.) and practice writing. They write their name, letters we work on, letters they want to try out, and/or draw pictures of whatever they like. It is a popular center!
We read the book, We Like Fruit and then practiced reading the sentences (interchanging the 'fruit' word to make new sentences). Here is a picture of a student doing it in centers!
On this table we keep our big books, which the students love to review during center time!
We brought out the tinker toys on Friday in the blocks area! A big hit!!
Sorting shapes into book pockets! She is doing a great job!
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