Gumball Words & Other Literacy Centers for Kindergarten

We're back from March Break, and are back at learning!

Here are my latest Literacy Work Stations:

GUMBALL SIGHT WORDS

Using a label-maker, I printed ten sight words and stuck them onto decorative gems. I added several gems that had no words on them as well.

Students took turns turning the dial until a 'gumball' came out. If it had a sight word on it, all students in the group printed the word onto their gumball page.

You can find the gumball page at Mrs. I's blog.

If the 'gumball' was blank, no action was taken...they were added simply to heighten anticipation :)

WRITE THE ROOM

I 'hid' several rhyme cards around the classroom.

Students searched the classroom for the cards. When a card was found, students filled in the page to determine if the pictures rhymed or not. 

SIGHT WORD BOOK

I looked all over for a sight word book introducing the word am, & found this great one at http://www.kindergartenkindergarten.com/2011/08/sight-word-readers.html

You can find details of my sight word lessons here.

LISTENING CENTER

Students enjoyed listening to One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish.

WORD SEARCHES

I created several puzzles for students to practice their word-finding skills. 

One puzzle included all of our Sight Words to date, one was a list of the girls in our class, and one was made up of the boys in our class.

The FREE puzzle-making website I used to create these word searches is: Lakeshore Learning.

UPDATE 2015:

I have created bundles of month-long literacy centers, to make things easy for Kindergarten teachers!
The packs include literacy activities in these 5 areas of learning:
1)Writing 2)Listening to reading 3) Word work (sight words) 
4) Phonics/alphabet 5) Phonemic awareness
The packs are laid out, week by week, for the entire month. They include 5 stations for students to rotate through per week, with all of the components you’ll need for each activity.
Assessment tools are included to help keep learning on track and to keep your students accountable.
Learning is spiraled throughout the month, to help students build on their prior learning. 

Check out the first pack in the series {here}