These are a really simple activity. I went to the Dollar Tree and found large, flat marbles. I took a permanent marker and wrote the capital letters on the back side of each marble (you have to write it mirror image if you write on the back. I have found writing them on the back helps keep the marker on the marble rather than writing it on the round top side).
A few ways you can use these are:
1. Simply write/print out the alphabet on a sheet of paper and have students pull out a marble and match it on their sheet
2. have students put the marbles in ABC order
3. use the marbles to spell their names, sight words, spelling words, CVC words
4.work on beginning or ending sounds
I could keep thinking of different ways to use these but you get the idea!
I found these foam counters at the Dollar Tree. I have used them before to create a class set of dice in a variety of ways and love how durable and quiet they are.
I thought I could use these for a word work type centers as well.
I wrote the vowels on the green pieces and the consonants on the red/blue/orange. Students can use these to build words, practice names, work on letter identification, etc.
Here is another quick and easy letter game for kids! Easter egg are already out (yes I know it is still February!). I wrote the capital letter on the top and the lower case letter on the bottom. After breaking the eggs apart the students now can have the task of matching them back up!
The main goal or purpose of this center is letter matching, but like in any learning game, there are multiple skills they are working on in the background. Fine motor skills of grasping and clicking the eggs together, they are seeing print, matching shape/size and color....they can stack them and make patterns too! To help students know and do the purpose of a learning center, the key is modeling!
I always introduce the new center during our whole group time (right before I dismiss them to centers) and then my co-teacher and I walk around to the various groups and interact with the students in their play----this helps build trust and strong teacher-student relationships but it is also a way to see how they are playing/working. I can quickly assess if the activity is a good match for a student and be able to add assistance or even a challenge if needed.
Not all of my centers are "teacher made". I love when I can find affordable activities to add to my classroom. I found and purchased these My First Banagrams for my daughter. I wanted to add a new way for her to practice her spelling words.
They have been sitting in our game drawer for a little while now so I thought I should find a way to use them in my classroom!
I plan to use these like the previous games but also as an assessment tool. Sometimes it feels like we get done with one assessment and then it is time for the next one. Assessing can take lots of time and kids get bored and tired and then they do not do as well. I want to keep them excited and engaged so I can get a better picture of where they are academically.
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