Learning+Center+Activities

1. Sight Word Derby: a game where students insert appropriate words into a sentence.

2. Sight Word Go Fish: This is a traditional go fish but instead of numbers on cards its, sight words.

3. Smartboard games on the smartboard.

4. Activities in this ABC tub all relate to the popular children's books __Chicka Chicka Boom Boom__ and the board book version __Chicka Chicka ABC__, both by John Archaumbault and Bill Martin Jr. Students
 * match upper case letters to lowercase letters
 * match letters to pictures of objects that begin with that letter/sound
 * practice ABC order as they arrange letters in ABC order, identify missing letters, and connect the dots from A to Z
 * make letter sound associations as they use pointers to read ABC strip

5. Letter Search: Students search through magazines, newspapers, and other printed materials to find, cut, and glue letters that are in their name or in words they know, letters that are the beginning consonants for names of given pictures, or for all the different styles of one particular letter.

6. Rhyme Time: While working with materials form the Rhyme Time ABC tub, students 7. Alpha Bears: Students 8. Word Maker: At the Word Maker ABC center, students 9 Alphabetic Magnets: At this center, the children practice spelling with alphabet magnets. The alphabet magnets are stored in a tub full of magnetic boards and flashcards. The flash cards have sight words, names of children in our class, and common words (like cat, dog, etc.). Later in the year, I also include word and punctuation magnets for sentence building.
 * match objects that rhyme
 * match pictures that rhyme
 * read and sing familiar nursery rhymes
 * brainstorm words that rhyme with a given word
 * match upper case letters to lowercase letters
 * match pictures to the letters that each start with
 * place letter bears in ABC order
 * form small words with letter bears
 * manipulate letters to form 3-4 letter words to match pictures (with or without dotted letters underneath)
 * match small objects to word cards
 * match word and picture cards

10. Overhead Center: The teacher will choose a few different poems that the students will underline the sight words and say them as they underline them.