Literacy Center Activities for Kindergarten

Literacy center activities for Kindergarten
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. Victoria Day. A nice long weekend.....

{My children have said to me several times that it feels like we're on summer holidays. Nope, 4 1/2 weeks left to go!}


Here is our latest round of Literacy Work Stations in my classroom. Several work with May's theme: God's Gift of Food.
Sight Word literacy centers and word work stations for Kindergarten and First Grade

MAY I TAKE YOUR ORDER?

Kindergarten Literacy Centers for reading, writing, and word work.
In Math we have been practicing our addition skills, so this activity combines both addition and writing.
Kindergarten Literacy Centers for reading, writing, and word work.
Students take turns ordering from the menu, while the other writes down their order and tallies up their bill.
Kindergarten Literacy Centers for reading, writing, and word work.

Kindergarten Literacy Centers for reading, writing, and word work.
Here's what my menu looks like.
{The prices were all in dollars, for easy addition.}
Kindergarten Literacy Centers for reading, writing, and word work.
Here's the order form.

SIGHT WORD BOOK

Kindergarten Literacy Centers for reading, writing, and word work.
Our newest sight word book is all about our theme...FOOD.
Kindergarten Literacy Centers for reading, writing, and word work.

Kindergarten Literacy Centers for reading, writing, and word work.
We added the words on and my to our
high-five chart and Word Wall.
Kindergarten Literacy Centers for reading, writing, and word work.
Students highlighted the words on and my in their sight word books.
Kindergarten Literacy Centers for reading, writing, and word work.
The sight word book is from Hubbards Cupboard, and is called

WRITE-STAMP-DECORATE

Kindergarten Literacy Centers for reading, writing, and word work.

Kindergarten Literacy Centers for reading, writing, and word work.
Students write, stamp, and decorate the newest sight words that we've learned.
Kindergarten Literacy Centers for reading, writing, and word work.

Kindergarten Literacy Centers for reading, writing, and word work.
The Write-Stamp-Decorate page is from Mrs. I.

SECRET CODE SPELLING

Kindergarten Literacy Centers for reading, writing, and word work.
Using the Secret Codes page I found from Mrs. Gilchrist's Class, I created some secret codes for my students to figure out.
So fun!
secret code page from Mrs. Gilchrist
Kindergarten Literacy Centers for reading, writing, and word work.

Kindergarten Literacy Centers for reading, writing, and word work.
Kindergarten Literacy Centers for reading, writing, and word work.

LISTENING CENTER

Kindergarten Literacy Centers for reading, writing, and word work.
During our Guided Reading lessons, we've looked at several versions of The Little Red Hen and did some comparing/contrasting.
Kindergarten Literacy Centers for reading, writing, and word work.
The students listened to a version of the story at the listening center, then filled in this reader's response sheet from Mrs. Jump.

10 comments

  1. Love your activities, Anita! Happy Victoria Day! Hope you are enjoying this amazing weather (I just came in for a cold drink...back out I go LOL!).

    Ѽ Alessia
    Mrs. Albanese’s Kindergarten Class

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  2. Lots of ideas! I love putting the sight words on the hands for a high five chart. Cute!
    Lori
    Conversations in Literacy

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  3. Love your ideas!! I would love a copy of your clue sheet and the writing response!! Thanks.

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  4. @jalove: You'll notice that there is a link to both in the blog post...click on "secret code page" and "answer writing pages" for the sheets you're looking for.
    Anita

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  5. Thanks for such a QUICK response!! I'm having trouble with my school apple!! I will try at home on my PC! If not, here is my email... THANKS! jalove@capousd.org

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  6. Ok...sorry for all the back and forth! I really LOVE this activity, but for some reason my computer won't show your "Secret Code Spelling Clues" page 2. I'm soo sorry to bother, but is there any way to get an email copy?? THANKS!!!

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  7. @jalove Since I don't have Mrs. Gilchrist's clue pictures on my computer, I could not include it on the clue sheet I made. So what I did was put Mrs. Gilchrist's page under mine and traced the pictures onto it to make my own sight word clues. {You may have different words you wish to practice with your class, so you can trace the clues you need.} Hope this makes sense!
    Anita

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  8. Totally!! Thanks so much. I think this is great for my kinders especially at the end of the year! Thanks for including your recording sheet! I hope I can trace as well as you! I do have different words.

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