It's Literacy and Math Station Time!

Students love station time!  The following pictures are examples of math and literacy stations we have completed during the past few weeks!  

Pack a Backpack- at this station students sorted the picture cards by their beginning sound.  Cards beginning with the /d/ sound were placed in the Dd backpack.  Cards beginning with the /c/ sound were places in the Cc backpack.  After sorting the cards, students picked a few from each backpack to draw and label on their own paper.  Students are doing a great job of sound stretching words and writing the sounds they hear.  

Picture card source: Florida Center for Reading Research

Recording sheet source: WintersKinderland

Sight Word Scramble- at this station students select a card and unscramble the sight word.  They then write the word on their paper and color their picture to match the color of the word on their card.  I use this color coding system for many of our stations.  It helps me check their work for accuracy rather than just completion.  

Station recording sheet and picture card source: Jennifer @kindertrips.blogspot.com

Fill in the Blank- students select a card and read the sentence.  They then select one word from the box that best fits in the sentence.  Finally, students write the word on their paper and color the picture to match the color of the box on their card.  

Recording sheet and picture card source: Jennifer @kindertrips.blogspot.com

Ending Sounds Practice- students select a card and determine the ending sound of the picture.  They then write the letter and color their picture to match.  

Source: Jennifer @kindertrips.blogspot.com

Counting Jars- at this math station students open a jar and count the objects inside.  They then write the number and number word on the correct jar on their paper.  

Recording sheet source: jmeacham.com

Sight word trees- at this station students select a bag with puzzle pieces inside.  They then put the pieces together to spell a sight word.  Finally, they then stamp the word on their paper.  They repeat this process until they have a new word on every tree.  

Puzzle pieces source- makinglearningfun.com

Recording sheet source- WintersKinderland

Panda Bear CVC Words- at this station students select a card and write the consonant-vowel-consonant word on their paper.  They then color their panda bear to match the color of the box on their card.  As I mentioned previously, this helps me check station work for accuracy.  

Station source: Jennifer @ kindertrips.blogspot.com

Panda Bear Color Word Practice- students select a color word panda bear card.  They then write the word on their paper and color their panda bear to match the color word.  

Station source: Jennifer @ kindertrips.blogspot.com

Rhyming Magnet Puzzles- at this station students find the rhyming pieces to make a match.  They then complete the paper shown in the picture above.  

Station Source: Carl's Corner

I hope you enjoyed viewing some of our stations from the previous few weeks.  I had to replace the cord that connects my camera to my computer.  I'm now back up and running.  I'll be posting more frequently now! :)  

Thanks for stopping by!  Have a great week.  

Literacy Stations- Initial Sounds, Rhyming, and ABC order!

Some of our literacy stations this week had a spider theme.  This went along with our nursery rhyme: The Itsy Bitsy Spider.  

At the car station students completed: Itsy Bitsy Knows Her Sounds.  Students selected a spider and determined the beginning sound of the picture.  

Students recorded the beginning sound on their paper and colored their spider to match the color of the spider they selected.  

(source Julie Lee's spider packet on Teachers Pay Teachers)

At the truck station students completed the sight word mystery recording sheet.  In order to complete this station students selected a web that had been programmed with a popcorn word.  

After students read the word, they wrote their popcorn word in the boxes that would correctly fit their popcorn word.  

 tall boxes = tall letters

short boxes = short letters

(source: Julie Lee's spider packet on Teachers Pay Teachers)

At the mail carrier stations students completed the initial sound sorting activity titled Pack a Backpack.  Students sort picture cards by their beginning sound (/c/ or /d/).  Students place the picture cards on the matching beginning sound backpack.  

After sorting the picture cards students selected four two draw and label on their recording sheet.  Students are encouraged to use invented spelling.  Students write the sounds they hear to label their picture.  

(source Florida Center for Reading Research)

At the train station students completed rhyming puzzles.  

First students matched magnet puzzle pieces on their tray.

Then they completed the recording sheet that matched the puzzle pieces on the tray.  

(source: Carl's Corner)

At the caboose station students put the leaves that had been programmed with all the letters of the alphabet in ABC order.  

Students also practiced working with a partner and taking turns.  Together students worked to place the leaves in ABC order across the floor of our classroom.  

Finally, students used their leaves to complete their recording sheet.