Spotlight on 1st Grade Centers
We love CENTERS at our school! Here is a spotlight on one of our 1st Grade classrooms! We have the BEST teachers ever!
In Mrs. Dunmeyer’s 1st grade centers, she has used a very wide variety of centers activities. Her class has 13 different centers activities that the students rotate between. Some of the students’ favorite centers include:
– Banger! (apick-up-sticks game using Fry’s Word Phrases) – Doggy Drop (students throw a dog stuffed animal onto a $1 shower curtain covered in words. The students must read the word that the dog falls onto in order to score points.) – Monster Mash (students use cute flower-covered fly swatters to swat “word monsters.” They must read the word first!) – Monster Munch (students read and sort words by “feeding” them to monsters (bags). Each monster has a taste for a specific word type, such as -igh, -ed, and -ough words.) – Lilly Pad Leap (students place lily pads covered in sight words on the floor, and, as they read them, they leap from pad to pad)Thanks Mrs. Dunmeyer for sharing these great Learning Center Ideas with us!
Kinders at Work
A quick glance into our Kindergarten Classes during Center Time. As I have mentioned, numerous times, all of our classes in the Quest Elementary Building have a scheduled time for Literacy Centers. During that time, the students participate in differentiated learning activities in the areas of COMPREHENSION, WORD STUDY, WRITING, FLUENCY, COMPUTERS AND MUCH MORE. The main reason why we do this, is so that our amazing teachers can pull your students back and teach them literacy skills in small groups on their level! It is a beautiful thing!!!! Ask your students about this part of their day! Don’t forget to ask your teachers about it also at PTC!
This is just one of the reasons why
QUEST IS THE BEST!
ENJOY these few pics of our cute Kinders at work! Notice some specific centers in our Kinder Classes include, using the Smart Board, using Ipod Touches, using Netbooks, Reading Centers with books on their level, Word Study using Words Their Way, Writing Centers, Listening Center, Math Centers, Sight Word Practice and so on!
So much LEARNING IS GOING ON! Way to go Kinders!
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