Well, it's that time of year again, I can almost smell the Elmer's glue in the air and the thought of brand new crayons almost makes me giddy. I love the promise of a new school year. I have already thought of a million things that I will do differently this year to help my...wait for it...fifteen, that's right, fifteen, new kinderbabies be successful little learners. With such a tiny class I feel the possibilities are endless!
Today I took Avery and Spencer to school with me and worked on getting August centers set out and ready. At the beginning of the year, we work A LOT on rules and routines, as well as getting to know one another. For centers, August has always been dedicated to learning color words. Color words are one of those things that I like them to master early on since they will see them in print throughout the year. I try to incorporate a lot of meaningful play in the beginning because they have a hard time staying in one spot for too long. Here are a few pictures of color centers for August.
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| Dramatic Play Area |
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| Supermarket |
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| Lots of opportunity for sorting! |
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| Farmer's Market sorting tubs from Learning Resources. |
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| Art Center |
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| Color Bump from Cara Carroll's "I See Your True Colors" pack. |
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| Color Pal from Cara Carroll. She offers it for free here. |
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| Color Sorting Cans from Learning Resources |
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| Pieces from the color sorting cans. |
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| Predictable Sentences activity from Cara Carroll's "I See Your True Colors" pack. I will also use a recording sheet with this one. |
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| "Crazy for Colors" from Cara Carroll's "I See Your True Colors" pack. |
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Puzzle/Book Center
The Color Mazes are from Lakeshore...Spencer worked on these for about an hour :) |
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| Math Center |
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| Color Sorting Crayons from Learning Resources |
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| Color Words from Cara Carroll "I See Your True Colors" pack. |
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| Writing Center |
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| Color Books from Cara Carroll's "I See Your True Colors" pack. |
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| Mystery Box Colors from Cara Carroll's "I See Your True Colors" pack. |
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Label it! from DeeDee Wills August/September writing pack.
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| Write the color words activity from Cara Carroll's "I See Your True Colors" pack. |
I'll end with a little classroom sneak peek. It's not completely ready, but getting close! |
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| Whole group meeting area and student tables. |
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| Guided Reading table and resources |
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| Dramatic play and art centers |
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| Focus Wall and Story of the Week (I still need to put up our focus skills.) |
Hope everyone enjoys their last few weeks of summer bliss. As for me, I plan to sleep late, drink coffee till eleven a.m. and maybe be out of my jammies by noon ;)
