Room 31 has matured greatly! Our daily workstations now include three new centers: jumbo journal, technology and engineering. These eight centers will now be rotated through on a two-week basis during small reading group instruction. The workstations groups now consist of only two to three children; making it much harder for children to blend into the masses while the teacher is focused on her readers.
Although we have grown up a lot in the last five months, we still need your help during workstations! If you can make it into the classroom to volunteer 12-1pm is the time! Just look how much fun we are having!!!
Children should still be coming home with three to four response sheets or projects Monday through Thursday if they visited one of the former workstations such as: Reading, Writing, Math, Science or Word Making. Here Emma completes a word making exercise where she makes three words in the -ay family our of play dough (way, may, say) and records them in sentences on paper.
Audrie enjoys the technology center where she learns to navigate through educational web sites, reading software and math games. The purpose of this center
Gavin and Indi write stories at Jumbo Journal. First adding detail to their masterpieces and then writing about their work on the bottom.
Lucia and Stefan work cooperatively at engineering. This center is open ended...as you can see by the zoo wall extending out of the block area and almost reaching the hallway.
