Literacy Stations and Setting Signs

It was another great week in room B2!  We read the story Fix-It Duck.  We are learning to identify the setting of a story.  

Students made a setting sign.  On one side of the sign, students drew a picture of the setting of the story The Little School Bus (our reading story from last week).  On the other side of the sign students drew a picture of the setting of the story Fix-It Duck.  Students will be bringing their setting signs home this week.  They were very proud of their work and are excited to show their signs to their family!

We decided that the Little School Bus took place mainly on a school bus and Fix-It Duck took place in the country.

  

Each week we also will be learning a different nursery rhyme.  This week we learned all about Humpty Dumpty.  We read and sang the rhyme.  By the end of the week, students were singing right along to our song about "poor ole Humpty."  We also brainstormed ways that we would fix Humpty Dumpty and put him back together.  Their ideas were very creative!

Here are some of the literacy stations students are completing:

At the car station students are using dry erase markers and their own letter book to practice forming capital and lowercase letters.  Students then pick letters to record on their paper with a pencil.  

At the truck station students are using letter stamps to stamp their first and last name.  Students use the blue stamps when they need a capital letter and the yellow stamps when they need a lowercase letter to make their name.  Thank you kellyskindergarten.com for the name stamping recording sheet. 

At the mail carrier station students are rainbow writing.  To rainbow write, students will use all the colors of the rainbow to trace their name.  

At the train station students are completing Clip-a-Letter.  For this station, students reach in the bag and select a clothespin.  Students must match the letter on their clothespin to the letter on the wheel.  Students have a choice at this station.   They can match capital letters to capital letters, lowercase letters to lowercase letters, or capital letters to lowercase letters.  

Here is what the letter wheel looks like when it has been completed.  Letter wheels were printed from The Florida Center for Reading Research. 

At the caboose station students are working with a partner to put letter cards in ABC order.

First, students stretch the alphabet border across the floor.

Then they work with their partner to match the letter cards to the letters on the border.  While learning more about the alphabet, students are also learning to work with a friend and take turns.  

Tomorrow I plan to post pictures of our math stations.  Please check back soon!