Anna Proctor, SPARK Academy
One of our favorite centers this year is our sight word centers. With the importance of sight words for kindergarten readers, we spend a lot of time planning and executing these centers. Listed below are just a few games, ideas, or hacks for centers!
Sensory bins:
Kids love to play with anything and everything…. Which is why sight word sensory bins are a crowd pleaser. It’s even a teacher pleaser because all it is classroom manipulatives, rice, and sight words! Students love using a magnifying glass to search for the sight words within the rice and manipulatives. Once they find one, they have to read it and record it!
CAPS:
We always struggled with not having enough foam letters for each student to spell out sight words or CVC words. A super quick fix to that was collecting water bottle caps. We used a sharpie to write out one letter per cap. After hounding people to their bottle caps, we were able to have enough (if not, more) for each student! These are super kid friendly and at no cost☺
Roll & Record HACK!!
Tired of hearing dropping dice throughout your Reader’s Workshop block……. We have a quick fix……. Put a die in a dressing contain! Kids are amazed…..teachers are happy☺ Everyone can focus!
For Love of the Game 