Showing posts with label literacy stations. Show all posts
Showing posts with label literacy stations. Show all posts

Friday, January 11, 2013

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!