I choose one student each day to be the “stick person”. The kids REALLY like it and are having fun with each of the tasks I ask them to do each day.Īs I shared in a previous post, I have pictures of the children’s faces on large popscicle sticks and have written their names on them as well. This could be done as the children come in each day, but I like to do this as a shared activity so that I can observe who is having trouble with what skills. I came across it on Pintrest and then found this blog (Growing Kinders) that had some great ideas for changing it up! I liked the ideas and wanted to make sure everyone had a chance “to do” something, so I changed a few things and ended up with this:

I wanted to make it more engaging and since we’d been doing the same tasks for awhile now, I thought I needed to find something new. I found this great idea to change up my Morning Message a bit. I’ve been asked if I would share what my time looks like within that 90 minutes so here is what it looks like right now:Ĩ:35-8:50 Morning Message (usually something on the Promethean Board tied to our big book)Ĩ:50-9:10 Big Book (we usually echo read, choral read, and really dig into the text of our book for the week)ĩ:10-9:40 Literacy Work Station (12-15 stations, 2 students at each)ĭrama Work Station, Science Work Station, ABC/Word Work Station, Big Book Work Station, Promethean Board Work Station, Listening Work Station, Library Work Station, Computer Work Station, Writing Work Station, Pocket Chart Work Station, Magnet Work Station, Sound Work Station, Puzzles & Games Work Station, and 2 Work with the Teacher Work Stations–we will add Buddy Reading Station 2nd semesterĩ:40-10:00 Imagine It!/Open Court (just the Phonemic Awareness portion)ġ0:15-10:50 Writer’s Workshop (mini lesson for 5-10 minutes at the beginning of this time, then I conference with 4 children per day as the rest write on their own) We are required to teach a 90 minute literacy block each day.

Open court kindergarten sight word list