We just finished up week 4 of Kindergarten – where did the time go?? I have a doozy of a class this year, so we have been taking our station time slowly. This week we introduced some new stations, check them out!
Literacy Station Activities
Pocket Chart
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| Pete the Cat Pocket Chart |
Like all Kindergarten students, mine LOVE Pete the Cat! So I added a Pete the Cat pocket chart activity that works on color words. All of my students loved to read (sing) the words and then were THRILLED to use markers for the recording sheet. To differentiate I have two versions of the recording sheet: one with the color words ready to trace, and one with blanks.
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| Pete the Cat Pocket Chart on TPT |
This resource is available in my TPT store.
Write the Room
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| School Supply Write the Room |
Typically I post the pictures around the room. But this group juuuuuuust isn’t ready to roam yet. But it is a great way to get them thinking about words, labels, etc. This is a great resource from Luv My Kinders
Sensory Bin
This year I have a number of students who are sensory seeking. So I added a Sensory Bin to my Literacy Station rotations! This week we had pompoms and letter tiles. Students had two choices (hello, differentiation!) of letter mats to work on:
Letter/Sound matching with my Alphabet Matching Mat
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| Alphabet Matching Mat for Sensory Bin |
**OR**
Letter/Letter matching with part of my ABC order resource.
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| Letter to Letter Matching Mat for Sensory Bin |
Alphabet Pattern Blocks
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| Alphabet Pattern Blocks |
This is a great FREE resource from Confessions of a Homeschooler.
Watercolor Name Painting
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| Watercolor Name Painting |
This was so fun! The kids got to practice their names AND practice using watercolors responsibly. I think watercolors may be a popular literacy station!
I used the Editable Name Mats from Pocket of Preschool. Check it out!
Play-Dough
We had two play dough options this week.
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| Play-dough Letters and Sounds Literacy Station |
Play-dough letters (of unknown origins?) and beginning sounds from Natalie Lynn Kindergarten.
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| Play-dough CVC words |
I LOOOOOVE this set of play-dough stamp words from Literacy with the Littles. This week we used the CVC words with no blanks, just practicing making the words with our stampers.
Math Stations
We had a fun week of counting and building in math this week! Check out some of our favorites!
Apple Counting and Build
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| Apple Counting and Building |
My students really enjoyed this math station! They used my apple counting cards and appropriately apple colored snap cubes. So easy!
This resource is available FOR FREE in my TPT store. š
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| Apple Number Cards |
Roll and Build with LEGO
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| Roll and Build with LEGO |
This was a super easy math station to set up! I bough the base at the dollar store and threw the dice and blocks into a bucket. They LOVED it! I love the 8 sided dice to vary the numbers they are counting out.
Roll and Build
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| Roll and Build Math Station |
This is one of my go-to Math stations. I love that adding the snap cubes gives it a fine motor challenge. Roll and Build comes from The Primary Post, check it out!
I hope you all enjoyed looking at our Literacy and Math stations from the last week!
~Kristen
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