Centers Through The Year

In our class centers are a favorite activity. With the study of each letter, one day is set aside for experiencing special hands-on activities that relate to that letter. 

Our first centers take place with the letter Oo.  You can look below to see those centers and the fun we had with the great parent and grandparent helpers! 

Our Gg centers were lots of fun.  We made ghosts for our ceiling and played the green Gg game.  In this activity picture cards and game pieces are drawn from a large can.  If the picture started with Gg, it could be placed on one of the Gg squares on the game card.  If not it was placed in the discard pile.  Another center made gumdrop creations and drew pictures of what they had created (if you check our webpage menu you can find all of our creations under Gumdrop Creations.) The listening center was the story of the Three Billy Goats Gruff.  We have such good helpers.  

Our next centers were mostly Halloween centers.  We made skeletons with Q-tips and played pumpkin bingo.  We also did a sorting and counting activity with jack-o-lantern and ghost beans and plastic spiders.  Our other center was our pumpkin painting center - GREAT artists.

Our next centers day was for the letter Dd. The favorite center (even for our helpers) was the donut center.  We cut a biscuit into fourths and fried each piece to make 4 donut holes.  We dipped one in regular sugar, one in cinnamon and sugar, one in powdered sugar, and left one plain.  Then, the BEST part!  We tasted all four and decided which was our favorite.  We recorded our results on our papers. What a yummy center!!!  Below you will see our other centers for Dd.

Below you will see our centers for the letter Ss.  We have such wonderful helpers!

 

 

Our Ll centers were mostly Thanksgiving centers.  We did one Ll activity using Wiggle Works.  We read the book, What Lila Loves, and then colored and "wrote" our own books.  We finished that center at the computers.  We included headbands (patterning), two games - Gobble up the Turkeys and Turkey Trot and our necklace center on this day.

We combined our Hh centers with our snow centers and we worked on getting ready for Valentines Day..  For our Hh centers we made "hamburgers" out of vanilla wafers, a round mint, coconut colored green, and "mustard" and "ketchup".  Yummy fun!  We wrote adjectives which described our snowmen in one center.  In another we made a groundhog which popped out of his burrow; we painted our Valentine houses in another center; and in the last center we finished letterbook Hh.  Busy day - wonderful helpers - loads of fun!!!  Check out the pictures below.

 

 

Christmas Centers

For  our  Nn  centers  we  experienced  nests  in  several  different  ways.

In  one  center  we  examined  real  bird  nests  that  Mrs.  Munter  had  found.   We  used  magnifying  glasses  to  look  at  all  of  the  things  the  birds  had  used  to  construct  their   nests.   Then  we  recorded  what  we  had  found  on  a  check  list.

At  another  center  we  made  a  bird  nest  and  put  "eggs"  in  it.   When  we  had  finished  making  the  nests  we  ate  them!  Yum!!!

Mrs.  Munter  had  lots  of  other  things  for  us  to  do  which  had  to  do  with  nests.   We  had  to  put  together  a story  of  a  bird  building  a  nest  by  putting  pictures  in  the  right  order. 

We  also  colored  a  nest and cut out eggs  to  go  in  it.

Mrs.  Munter had  lots  of  pictures  of  birds  and their nests for  us  to  look  at.    Then  we read  books  about  birds  and  nests.  We  had  great  helpers who  made  it  a  really  fun  day.

The next fun activity was making and eating pancakes.  Can you tell how much we enjoyed this day by the looks on our faces?