My students need Phonemic Awareness Instant Learning Centers, flip books, and stamps to have engaging learning centers that cover a wide variety of skills for all of my students' varying abilities.
This project is a part of the Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month celebration because
it supports a Latino teacher or a school where the majority of students are Latino.
My Students
"It's OK, I'm just learning!" This is how I always start off our first day of school. I make a "mistake", then we all practice saying this together. I find it calms fears and lets students know that this is a safe place where we can take chances and make mistakes together!
My students come from very diverse backgrounds and bring with them a variety of challenges daily when they enter the classroom.
Our school is a Title I urban school with the most diverse population in our district, serving over 80% a free or reduced-price lunch.
Each day, it is my job to make them feel safe, to put on my "acting" hat to make lessons entertaining and fun, and to inspire them to do their personal best! The fact that they have such varying levels of ability makes this a little tricky, and I've found that they are most successful when they are given opportunities to practice skills in a variety of ways both cooperatively in groups and individually. (The best part is, they often think they are "just playing"...mwah ha ha!)
My Project
These learning centers will be used by students as a way to independently practice skills we've been learning and my favorite part is that they won't even realize they're actually doing WORK!
The great thing about the Phonemic Awareness Instant Learning Centers is that they cover a variety of important skills and set kids up for success by including visual instruction cards and color-coding materials to facilitate student organization, a skill we are always working on.
The Stack & Build Flip Books make an abstract non-visual concept concrete by allowing kids to manipulate the letters and visually see how that changes the words. While playing with the Phonics Learning Locks, kids will not even realize that they're actually working on difficult skills and improving their fine motor skills.
I can not wait to get these centers in the hands of my eager little learners and have each student working on a "just right for me" project that is engaging and fun! Thank you for considering my project!
More than 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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