Every week I plan 5 table centres for my students to rotate through throughout the week.
These centres help students with their numeracy, literacy, fine motor skills and socializing skills. Sometimes they are also just for fun, we have lots of bins with loose parts that I just let them play with, creativity and imagination are also important!
But... here are some of the literacy centres we have done so far!
Our first literacy centres were all about our names! I found three free resources on TeacherPayTeachers and put them out. Each of these was on a different week!
^from BuildingBrilliance ^ from FunLearningForKids. ^from StayClassyClassrooms
And of course with stickers, play dough and any letters you can find in your class you can make some easy centres so that you can focus on helping the trickier ones!
I bring back the name once in a while, like with this cute activity by StayClassyClassrooms that we did at Christmas time!
Another easy peasy literacy center is to ask the students to place the alphabet in order, here some I have done:
Matching letters, either lowercase to uppercase or just letter to letter can be done in many different ways, here are two ways we have done it :
After matching letters you can also test your students on blending:
Fine motor skills are so important in kindergarten so making the letters with play dough or having to pick them out of a container with chopsticks can be a great way to include fine motor with literacy:
After students know most of their letter sounds I made this center to practice bending:
By the end of the year we have enough words around the room to have some fun with words. Get yourself enough letter stickers and some letter stamps so that you can let your students have fun with writing some words they know!
Stamp page on my tpt for free: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Ecriture-avec-des-etampes-8078867
And finally, when you have played enough whole class bingo it can become a center!
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