My Literacy Centers For The Week

I don't know why, but it seems like I have been waiting until Sunday to start getting ready for the next week.  I really need to spend a little bit of time throughout the week to start my planning so I can enjoy my weekend.  I am currently printing off the materials that I will be using for my literacy centers for this week, now to start laminating them.  

This week, our literacy theme is pumpkins.  We are also going to be working on identifying nouns and working with the following beginning blends (br, cr, dr, fr).  These themes are going to be carried out in my writing and word work centers.  

My teacher center, after I finish progress monitoring for the week, will be working with sight words (for my low group), my other groups will be reading books that are on level.  We will also be working on written responses to questions for the books that we will be reading.  This skill is something that my first graders from last year struggled with a lot so I'm trying to work on this skill as often as I can.

My writing centers for the week will involve pumpkins.  For Monday and Tuesday, my students will be completing a center called Pumpkin Punctuation & Sentence Fluency.  For this center, students will be given a baggie with words in it and different types of punctuation.  They will have to arrange the words to make a complete sentence.  I have done centers like this before when I taught Kindergarten and may have to dig out my sentence bags for my lower level students.  I found this center on TeachersPayTeachers.   http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Pumpkin-Punctuation-Sentence-Fluency-333468.  My center for Wednesday and Thursday will be Pumpkin Writing.  My students will choose 3-4 pumpkin cards and write a sentence describing each pumpkin.  This is a great center to work on descriptive writing.  Again, I found this activity on TeachersPayTeachers.  http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Pumpkin-Sentences-FREEBIE-919105

My word work center will focus on the beginning blends and on nouns.  On Monday and Tuesday, my students will practice sorting picture cards that begin with the four blends that we will be working on this week.  I found my picture cards on http://carlscorner.us.com/Blends.htm   Each student will be required to write at least one sentence for each word blend.  On Wednesday and Thursday, my students will be sorting noun picture cards by person, place or thing.  I found this super cute noun sort called " Nouns on the Funny Farm" on TeachersPayTeachers.  Now this activity does not fit with my pumpkin theme for the week but it is so cute and pumpkins come from farms.  You can pick up your copy here.  http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Nouns-on-the-Funny-Farm-541170

My students will also go to a silent reading center, a listening center, finish writing our citizenship reports on the computer, and work on the tablets.  

Time to get back to printing my centers so that I can start to laminate.  I also need to try and finish making my new hall passes, I still can't believe that my students destroyed or lost 4 out of the 5 that I made in less than 2 months.  At least I have my lesson plans, my homework packets, and our at home science experiment finished for this week.

Enjoy the rest of your weekend.

Amber