The rest of the children in the group must follow him as he flies around the table or room (teacher’s choice!).
* Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer: Child gets to pretend to be the lead reindeer on the team. Then he or she gets all of the cards at the table, except for the dealer’s cards. * Jingle Bell Bang!: The child says “Jingle Bell Bang!” and gets to shake some jingle bells. If the child gets a “special” picture card, he does the following: If he does not know it, he still gets to keep the card there is no penalty.Ģ. The child attempts to read the word or answer the question. The dealer gives each child a card in turn. To prepare, duplicate all of the cards and mix them up. I would NEVER use them all in one game! Here are the instructions:ġ. I tried to include cards that could be used from Pre-K to first grade, so there is a good variety included here. In this case, do not use those question cards for these children. Also, many children will NOT be ready to count out such large quantities of objects past twenty in Kindergarten without using real objects that they can touch. Depending on the achievement gap that exists in that particular class, I may need three different game sets! This is especially true if you have one group still working on the alphabet and another that is working on learning the sight words, etc. How do I get the students to use the activities correctly and not play around?Īgain, I feel this is really part of the “buy in” during literacy centers! It’s so important that we build it up… how they get to work on their during this time, they won’t need us (teacher) because they will be able to do it on their own! Modeling is also KEY! I try to take those few extra minutes and model the correct and wrong way the centers might be used! Will someone stick all the magnets on the back of the cookie sheet instead of the front? Possibly! So, model it that way and wait for someone’s gasp….At this point in the year, I differentiate instruction by making at least two sets of this game: one for my higher groups and one for my lower groups. Q: My kids are not fully engaged in the LEARNING during literacy centers. However, you will see in the pictures below that sometimes it is simply one practice sheet or a hands-on game that doesn’t take a lot of prep! Yes, so as I stated above, I place 3-4 activities into each basket! Why do I do this? I like to offer the students a variety of games in their basket! This allows them an opportunity to “choose” which game they would like to play first and helps with “buy in” as they love being in charge of the literacy center basket! Yes, that is 16 or so activities. Below I will try to answer a few FAQ for my word work tubs! Q: How many activities are you placing into each basket? Isn’t that a ton of work to create 20 different activities? That means these baskets are for one student per basket! Inside the basket are 3-4 activities! They activities are differentiated for above and on level students! I have differentiated the activities by using two different colored baskets (pink and green baskets pictured above). I’ve had a lot of requests and questions about literacy center time aka Daily Five! Today I will be focusing closely in on your word work baskets! Next week we will dig deeper into a different daily five choice! In my classroom I have four word work basket! I have implemented independent literacy centers.
Cars have wheels so they can roll down the road… cars can’t float!” I know that all sounds a little dramatic but trust me… we have to start somewhere! Teaching kids this early to use evidence from texts will make WORLDS of difference for them in the later grades! So, we want to offer them an opportunity to take that more basic statement and back it up some evidence, “I know that boats transport us in the water because boats can float! I see that the boats don’t have wheels so they wouldn’t be able to drive down the road. Below you can see the essential questions written on the board! You will notice I reworded the essential question slightly! I have explained before but there are always two essential questions each… one skill-based and one life-based! The skill-based question should be a question that is open ended and offer students an opportunity to express EVIDENCE and PROVE their thinking! For this week’s essential question we want students to be able to compare two of the modes of transportation! A generic, more basic answer would be, “Boats are in the water and cars drive on roads.” Although that answer is true… it doesn’t require much evidence from the book because they most likely have known that statement for years.
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