Morning Centers

In our classroom, the first 30 minutes of our day includes unpacking, signing in, and morning centers. These are free choice centers that we set out on our classroom tables or sometimes on the carpet. The activities tend to have fine motor skill practice as well as a STEM tendency.

Students may pick from any of the activities laid out (and our library is always open to read, play puzzles, magnets, or just to cuddle with a stuffed animal). They may switch centers as they please --as long as they clean up before them move.

Morning centers include: stencils, legos, geoboards, build it tubes, hexabits, magnatiles, playdoh, creative links, magna-doodles, free art, cars, action figures, scissor practice, lacing cards, sensory boxes, and tangrams.

5-7 centers are out each morning (we have 16 students this year) and our class rule is no more than 4 in a center.