This week Kindergarten began literacy workstations. Every afternoon for the rest of the year students will spend an hour working through one of five stations a day. The kids have named their work groups: the Strawberries, Apples, Halloween, Pumpkin and The Ghosts. Does your student remember which group they are in?
Students have five options at a single center. They are responsible for choosing what they will do first, next and last from a menu placed in their center bin. Children are grouped heterogeneously in order to help each other through the work and allow the teacher to meet with small reading groups at this time. Nevertheless, this is an excellent time to volunteer in class in order for all students to get a chance to read with the teacher.
Word Making, Reading, Writing, Math and Science—Art Centers allow students to learn at their own pace. Response and recording sheets are open-ended; this ensures differentiation throughout skill levels in the class. I do check work, however. Children are expected to do their best, whatever their best may be.
One of the greatest advantages to workstations is a social one. Students are learning the help one other as well as ask for help when the teacher is focusing on small group instruction. I have already seen many helping hands in Room Thirty-One.
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