Phonemic Awareness Activity

Self-Correcting feature

Purpose
Reinforce beginning sounds
Differentiate between 2 (or more) beginning sounds


Materials+How to Make

• Enlarged T-Chart 
• I used a poster maker and laminated for durability
• Pictures w/ same beginning sounds  (10 pictures + Upper and Lowercase Letter)
• I made this using PowerPoint and laminated  
• Ziplock Bags Labeled w/ Letter Sound
• I have 26 Ziplock bags (26 letters)  
• Do not put all the bags out at once.
• 4-5 Separate Bags for Center
• I select letter pictures from one of the 26 bags.  
• I mix 2 letter sound pictures+the Letters in the same bag and LABEL what letters the student will be working with in that center.  I use masking tape to write he letters and place on bag (shown in picture).  
• I change-out the label and pictures w/ new beginning sounds or combinations.
• Self-Correcting
• I put the answer on the back of each picture, so students can check their work.
• Differentiate
• You can increase difficulty by putting letter combinations w/ similar sounds (like M/N, or E/I, G/J etc.)
• You can increase difficulty by comparing more letter sounds (A/E.I etc.)

This center activity was time consuming making, laminating and cutting but I can use it all year and and continually rotate the sounds.

Place Value Differentiated Assessment

Students demonstrated their understanding of place value with this differentiated assessment.

Addition Art~Ladybug Style ; )

Coin Counting

This is a Math Center Activity I use to reinforce coin counting.  

How to Play?

1. Student rolls the die (wooden cube w/ plastic coins super-glued on each side) 
2. Student stamps the coin which was rolled
3. Student does this 3X
4. Student adds up the value of each coin and puts their answer in the pig

The boxes below each stamped coin (on the recording sheet) can be used to put the value of each coin or then can add the value as they go.  Students who have difficulty adding the values can put tally marks or dots instead of the number.

All coin stamps are stored in ice cube trays from the Dollar Tree.
They can choose if they want to stamp the head or the tail of the coin.

Stamp a Story Problem

I use this center activity when we are just learning about addition.  You can get creative with a variety of different stamps.  It is self-correcting and differentiated according to their academic level. (can be challenging or simple)   


CLICK HERE FOR THE RECORDING SHEET!