Stations this Week

The second half of our reading block after whole-group instruction is stations and small leveled reading groups.  I meet with each group (4-6 students) daily for 10 minutes each to work on a book at their level.  While I am doing this, the rest of the class is at stations.  Here are a few things that students were engaged in this week during stations!:

 

Math Station:  Build a Snowman

Writing Station: using winter-themed words to write notes, letters, cards, and all sorts of things! This student was writing about hot chocolate- yum. :)

Computer station: students can choose from a variety of games they've learned in computer lab or games that I have listed on our website under "Just For Kids."

Listening Station: books on CD, often themed to what we're learning or the season we're in.

Word Work: using letter cubes to build winter words

Science Station: working with the 5 senses and sorting

These are just a few of the many stations students do- some change weekly while others remain the same always.

Not a station, but a math activity that the kids loved this week- we talked about pattern blocks (shapes) and their attributes.  Students created a picture and then used a pattern block stencil to recreate their picture.  This was such a hit that I will put it as a math station for next week!