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center space
By Julianne

Use your gathering area for a center. Kids can play games on the floor. They can put together puzzles, work with flashcards, use sentence strips, read big books. Put your listening center in a box and hook it up at a couple
of student desks during center time. "Reading or writing the room" is a center that takes no additional space at all. Pull chairs together with a tub of books for a reading center.
I also have a small room, and I share it with another teacher. So space is always at a premium. We don't leave much out. Instead we've invested in plenty of dispans, tubs, buckets and other containers.

(The Dollar Store loves me...) Also, those cheap pressboard bookshelves that slip together are great for dividing space and holding tubs. Creativity and flexibility rule!