Primary Flynn

Every year I try to get my literacy centers to be a little more efficient so that the students can really become independent with them.  With the move to a new school and new classroom, I again tried to make the process of centers more efficient.  Now my classroom came with this lovely shelving unit... With plenty of counter space (of course the picture below was from me setting up the classroom). I also had this lovely cart from Michael's that had 6 drawers on one side that would be perfect to hold each groups center booklets (I will post better pictures once I get  back into the classroom mid August).  I labelled each drawer with the Group number and little pictures of the students so they knew it was their drawer. So looking at the counter space I had and the drawers, I realized I could put the drawers out on top of the counter space so the students could easily get their center booklets and start work right away.  This worked out really well.  The kids kne

I wanted to create some more sight word activities that my students could do during centers.  Primary students love challenges and trying to unscramble words is a big challenge in primary.  So the first center will be the kids trying to unscramble the sight words. Unscramble the Sight Word: The words are divided up like they are in my Weekly Sight Word package. I have gone through the Dolch words and tried to put them together in a way that would make sense to the kids and helpful at the same time with their reading and writing.  The Pre-primer and Primer list divided evenly into 4 words per week.  The Grade One list I had to make 8 lists with 4 words and 3 lists with 3 words.  The Grade Two list I had to make 10 lists with 4 words and 2 lists with 3 words.   This activity includes: -        Posters with sight words on them with fun borders -        3 recording sheets you can choose from -        Blank recording sheet -        Recording sheet with numbers -