It's Station TIme!

We have been having a BLAST in Kindergarten!

This past week we started our Math and Literacy Stations!

Station work is a time during the day dedicated to work on either math or literacy skills.  The activities are fun, interactive, and engaging.  The children always look forward to this part of our day!

We do a 10 station rotation so the activities usually change every two weeks.  Some of the stations stay the same.  Some change slightly.  Others change totally!  The children work in small groups of either 2 or 3 children.

As teachers, we spend time working with these small groups in an almost one on one setting.  Once we get used to the mechanics of stations, I will be pulling a group of children to do a guided reading lesson.

Here are some of our current literacy stations!

This is one of our name stations.  Students are matching up a name and a picture.  The pictures have the names written on the back to help!  This is helping us focus on matching words and identifying first letters.  The children are also encouraged to sort the names by first letter when done matching the pictures.  

This is our library center!  This station is one that does not usually change.  We do, however, add things to this station to make our reading more focused!  Right now we are enjoying reading the books we have read in class!

This is our listening station.  This is another station that does not change.  We do add different response papers to the center to keep things interesting!  Right now, we are listening to the story Kindergarten Rocks! by Katie Davis.

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This is another name station.  The children are using letter beads to match letters in the names of our classmates.  They are working on matching upper case letters to lower case letters, identifying letters, reading names and more!  Last names are also written on the back of the name cards for those who are ready to work on their last names!

This station is letter magnets.  The children are spelling their names, the names of friends, or words they know.  There are also alphabet cards that the students use to match up the magnet to the card.

 In this station, the children are working on name practice!  We are working on writing our names with a capital first letter followed by lower case letters.  Last names are also included for those ready to work on that skill!

This station is puzzles!  I found these puzzles years ago when my daughter was little.  Now that she is in second grade, I was allowed to take them to school!  They match letters, words, and an object that begins with letter.

Playdough is always a favorite station!  Right now, we are working on making the letters of the alphabet with play dough!

This is our poetry station!  Our poem is "Who Stole the Cookie"!  You can see in the picture one of our classmates putting a cookie onto the puzzle.  We have cookies with each person's name and picture on it.  We put the different names on the poem and then use a pointer to read!  We are working on one to one correspondence of words, reading left to right, return sweep, rhyming, becoming familiar with names and sight words, and more!

Stay tuned... pictures of our math stations are coming SOON!