Center set up in classroom

Make center time in your classroom one that is filled with engaged learning and exploration. As students work independently you are ready to work with reading groups or do small group instruction. But getting your centers set up is the beginning. This blog post details your step by step process for setting up a center rotation that your students will love. It includes literacy center and math center ideas as well as tips for organizing centers all year long.

Pictures and ideas for setting up learning centers in a pre-k preschool or kindergarten classroom. Photos of each center with detailed descriptions.

The month of September has really taking over my classroom! I've been busy getting the year started with classroom routines, organization,...

I have always done a four station rotation in my classroom when I taught Kindergarten. I am doing the same in Transitional or Pre-Kindergarten. One station is usually an independent, play-based center. So the first week of school, I decided that it would be a great idea to let the children play in our PLAYHOUSE that I set up in small groups!

The Art center is a place where students can go to express their feelings, ideas, and be creative! Every child is an artist in the Art center! It is a place that promotes high-level thinking, problem-solving, and is rich in vocabulary. Students can learn and develop skills in all learning domains (language, literacy, math, science, social studies, fine motor, gross motor, and social skills) through art. It is an amazing place in your classroom if you are intentional with the materials and…

How to set up the blocks center in your early childhood classroom (with ideas, tips, and book list) plus block center freebies!

Setting Up the Preschool Classroom PRICE: $SGD 61.10 or Rp. 427,700 This book is designed to help you arrange and equip your preschool classroom or center, including the outdoor play space. Following the opening chapter on the principles of designing active learning settings, the book describes specific interest areas (play spaces) in detail. Included are individual chapters on the art, block, house, toy, reading and writing, computer, music and movement, sand and water, woodworking, and…

Has this ever happened to you? You spend forever figuring out the fun and creative ways that you can keep students engaged during centers and two minutes into the first round Joey cuts Sarah's hair, glue is all over the listening station (why is it over there??) and your classroom sounds like a college football playoff game. You go home disappointed and vow to do better tomorrow. Right? Setting Up Center Routines is the Key to Success Go slow to go fast......have you ever heard that…

I have been CRAZY excited to share my classroom with ya'll this year. This is my third year in this classroom, and I'm in love with how it turned out it this school year. I kept a lot of the same centers from last year, and added a few new fun ones (Magnet Center,

Read for tips and ideas on how to set up and manage an effective writing center in your kindergarten classroom.