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Centers
By Rebecca

Centers is the highlight of my students' day! Here are the centers that I have right now:

Read and Write the Room
Computers/Information Station
Listening
Poetry
Word Wall
Word Central (they use words in
a variety of ways--stamp them out, word tiles to make sentences, rainbow spelling, etc.)
Writing Center
Big Books
Guided Reading
Pair and Share
Book Nook
Leap Track
Puppet Theatre
Seat Center Activities
I have a center chart menu with clothes pins. We only have 45 min. a day for centers so they only get 2 rotations right now (I am trying to find time to extend

it!) With Guided Reading, they come to me to work on fluency, skills, etc. At Pair and Share, there's only 2 (a pair of) kids with my EA.

I have an specific stationary area for all centers except Seat Centers (these are portable that they take to their own seat). Leap Track is taken to their seat also. You can have centers in a tub (like my word center). They pull this out at center time. You can have a small rug or table cloth to lay down as that area. You can have a lower cabinet that houses things for a center and at center time, just open the cabinet and they pull out the things there onto the floor and use it there. Also, you can use filing cabinets for things that are magnetic (like letters, words, etc.) Use rubber stamps for them to stamp out spelling words.

Soon, I am going to add a center (I NEED A GOOD NAME FOR IT!!) that will be practical reading (reading a recipe, phone book, etc.) What could I call it?

I hope this has helped some!