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centers
By Susan S.
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My first thought is to use centers for this time. I've done that with my 5th graders when my gifted kids were out (I have 7 of them), and it works wonderfully! I have them rotate every 30 minutes, in groups of 3-4. They do things that reinforce what we're studying, such as:
1. spelling words - stamp them out using alphabet stamps
2. art - make something that goes along with social studies (tea paper with a letter from a soldier)
3. computers - various educational software
4. games - various educational games (Scrabble, Chess, Who wants to be a millionaire).
5. Reading corner - choose | |
books to go along with your studies or let them free read.
6. writing - send postcards to various states, or write thank you cards around holidays, letters to relatives, etc...
7. tutoring - either I tutor or I let them peer tutor each other on subjects they're having trouble in (give a copy of an old test and let them see what they did wrong - especially math - then give examples of similar problems to work).They really look forward to these times.
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