As a kindergarten teacher, I have witnessed how COVID has affected my kindergarteners. Due to COVID, most of my students did not attend preschool, daycare, or Pre-K. As a result, they have suffered a tremendous learning loss.
Most are still learning how to recognize letters/numbers, write their names, and count past 5. In previous years, a handful of students would enter kindergarten with deficits and would struggle to keep up with their peers. I would then implement an intervention group of 4 or 5 students to give them the additional support they would need so that they wouldn't fall too far behind.
This year is quite different as the majority of my class entered school with many deficiencies and are struggling. I am in need of rigorous, fun, and engaging center activities that my class can do independently while I am meeting with small groups. The center activities must also allow students to social distance and can easily be sanitized.
The center activities I have selected will build foundational skills and promote independent learning. The activities will focus on the following common core standards: letter sounds (RFK), CVC words (RFK), sight words (RFK3), counting & number sense (KCCC), and adding/subtracting numbers (KOA).
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As a kindergarten teacher, I have witnessed how COVID has affected my kindergarteners. Due to COVID, most of my students did not attend preschool, daycare, or Pre-K. As a result, they have suffered a tremendous learning loss.
Most are still learning how to recognize letters/numbers, write their names, and count past 5. In previous years, a handful of students would enter kindergarten with deficits and would struggle to keep up with their peers. I would then implement an intervention group of 4 or 5 students to give them the additional support they would need so that they wouldn't fall too far behind.
This year is quite different as the majority of my class entered school with many deficiencies and are struggling. I am in need of rigorous, fun, and engaging center activities that my class can do independently while I am meeting with small groups. The center activities must also allow students to social distance and can easily be sanitized.
The center activities I have selected will build foundational skills and promote independent learning. The activities will focus on the following common core standards: letter sounds (RFK), CVC words (RFK), sight words (RFK3), counting & number sense (KCCC), and adding/subtracting numbers (KOA).
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