![]() ![]() □ I use music in my classroom as a “hurry it up–you have one minute to finish and get ready for the next phase” warning. I love the “I expect it.” That is SO true! LOL) I have tried to implement the “station” approach in my ELA classroom on Fridays, and you have given me some great ideas to tweak it so it runs smoother. Have a great school year! Our first day with kids is August 12th,…just around the corner!Įven though I don’t teach kindergarten, I am loving this series! (And let’s face it, sometimes middle schoolers are kindergartners at heart stuck in bigger bodies. I get a ton of inspiration from you as I begin the tpt journey. Thank you for sharing all of your wonderful ideas. I think that would be a sure fire way to hold students accountable for producing quality work. I love your idea of rubrics to go along with each center. This year I am going to have Sewing Center and I can’t wait. Magna Tiles, Moon Sand, School, Mosaic, Lego, Archaeology, Vet, Drawing, Marble Run, Monster Truck & Build-a-Track, Dot Art, Play-Doh, Build an Orchestra, Tube Tot,…20 centers in all. ![]() I think play is critical for so many social and problem solving skills. I have center time at the end of the day that is 15-20 minutes of pure play time. Needless to say, Workshop is an important part of the day. Our school is 1:1 with iPads, so many of these stations are recorded by the students (once they get comfortable and some experience) using Pic Collage, Seesaw, Our Story, Shadow Puppet, Chatterpix, Sock Puppet, Notability, etc. I’m trying to think of others…I love knowing that they are loving learning with a peer partner. I also have ABC objects where they pick a toy out of a bag, determine the beginning sound, and then put the toys in ABC order. They love War station with card decks and dominoes. Some stations that are real crowd pleasers are Typewriter (they’ve never seen one!), Cutting (paint chips, colored scrapbook paper, glue sticks), Dot to Dot Mystery Picture, B vs D, and ABC/C-V-C/Reading Sentences/Teens Go Fish (depending on the time of year). I try to grab each kiddo for a quick lesson every two days and the groups are always organic based on the skill. My stations are cross curricular and the kids looove Workshop. I usually send the kids through one round of stations with one set of partners and then switch the partners but keep the stations for another round. I usually try to put a boy with a girl, a high with a low, or a leader with one who needs structure. Mine are very similar, so it is a relief to know that I might have a similar plan as an all-star teacher! I have 12 academic stations at a time and two kids per station. Thank you for sharing your station system. If you could shave 1 minute off of each of those… WOW! Bonus: You don’t have to say… HURRY UP! Think of how many transitions you have a day. If you give them 1 minute, it will take them: 59 seconds. I promise you… if you give them 2 minutes to do something it will take them 1:59 seconds. Start with the 2-minute songs on his tracks, then move towards 1-minute songs. They sing along and it creates a fantastic mood in my classroom. When my students hear that music, they KNOW they have to hustle in order to make it to the carpet before the song is over. Here is why… they are short! They are zippy! They wear well, so much that I sing them at the grocery store! Each song in Volume 1 is between 1-2 minutes long. I don’t play the “clean up song” but I sincerely love Jack Hartman’s Rhyming to the Beat songs. When you want to signal the end of one station, play music! Pick your music WISELY… you will be listening to it for a long time.
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