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| The Writing Center |
Our writing center is a small but popular center in our room. The low coffee table and chairs provide students space to do their 'office work', 'homework', 'write bills' and create letters and cards for friends and family.
The center has pens, pencils, old greeting cards (we tear the message side off leaving a blank single card), stickers, 3 x 5 cards with messages (Happy Birthday, I love you, Mommy, Dad and more), paper and envelopes (recycled from junk mail). We also have 3 x5 cards with words associated with the season, a holiday or thematic unit. I have had these for so long! You can see the cards have simple pictures I drew or stickers. When I create new word cards I go straight to clip art (I recently created some cards for our upcoming ocean unit).
This is an easy center to set up in your classroom or home. No room at home? Place materials in a small storage tub. We are not teaching writing in this center but providing materials for the experience. This article from PBS provides some information on emergent writing skills in young children...http://www.pbs.org/teachers/earlychildhood/articles/emergentwriting.html
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| Christmas Cards for Writing and Lacing |
Save those Christmas cards! Have friends and parents save greeting cards for this center. Greeting cards also make terrific lacing cards for your home or classroom. More info and how to...http://metamoracommunityprek.blogspot.com/2009/12/lacing-cards.html
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| Christmas Lacing Cards |
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| Lacing Cards |
Find some space. Find some materials and have some fun writing with your child!
