Engaging Students With Literacy and Math Learning Centers!
My students need fun and exciting, hands-on math and literacy centers which include various games and tools to enhance fluency, cooperation, and engagement!
FULLY FUNDED! Ms. Croghan's classroom raised $565
This project is fully funded
My Students
Our school is located adjacent to a military base. Approximately 90% of the students in my classroom come from military families. We are a high poverty school with 47% of the students on free/reduced lunch. This provides our classroom with a wonderful mix of cultures, experiences and learning needs. Students in our school often stay for 1-3 years before moving. Our high transiency rate requires teachers to be creative and ensure that we are providing the best education to our students to continue helping students grow and learn transferable skills.
As a 1st grade teacher, I strive to ensure my classroom is a safe, welcoming and developmentally appropriate space for my students to grow, and I work to provide the materials and structure necessary to make that happen.
My Project
My classroom utilizes a guided learning approach to mathematics and reading. While I am meeting individually or in small groups, I want to ensure that the remaining students are equally engaged in learning, application and practice.
Having engaging centers ensures that my students are working on authentic and meaningful learning and practice while I am meeting with small groups in order to best differentiate learning for our diverse learners.
Math and Literacy Centers provide my students with hands-on, spiral review with skills that have been introduced and taught during our Guided Math and Reading groups. Students will be able to practice sentence creation by utilizing Reading Rods and Sentence Building Dominoes as well as develop further understanding of sentence structure with the Silly Sentences game. Games like Pop, Splat and Super Genius help students practice reading sight words in order to better develop fluency. Each game and tool can be differentiated for the various levels of need in my classroom. Math games including Mobi, Sequence, and Math for Love Prime Club help my students engage in math talk with their peers while practicing fluency. Engaging centers that include manipulative tools and games provide students with the opportunity to work with peers to talk about their thinking, apply vocabulary and skills, and learn from others.
Half of students from low‑income households
Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more
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