Thanks to Amy Snyder for this post about centers in the school library. Although Amy is in elementary at Welcome, the idea for centers can be adapted to middle and high school as well. This year when my fourth and fifth graders come for their library lesson I have been doing centers with them. I have 6 centers throughout the Media Center and divided up the class into 6 teams. There is a captain for each team that reads the instructions and makes sure that the team is on task when they are at the center. After checking out library books they have around 30 minutes for the center and they just focus on one center each time they come. They really love working in their centers and they learn to work/function as a team. I am free to walk around and monitor and also shelve some books during this time so that helps me out since my assistant is in the computer lab during my classes. I also try and incorporate various curriculum areas in my lessons....math, science, social studies, language arts to make it more interesting for them. Here is are some topics/examples of my centers that they are doing now....tangram puzzle area, learning new words using a thesaurus, solar system floor puzzle and planet books, social studies/biographies in history area, listening to a Chinese folktale and using legos to create a scene from a book they have read. My plan is to incorporate some centers with my third graders before the school year ends so they can see what it will be like for them next school year. It does take some time and preparation to figure out the 6 centers ahead of time but my students are engaged, learning and excited about them so it has been a big success this school year!
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Kate Lewis
4/14/2016 12:55:17 pm
I love this!! I want to try this next year. Thanks for sharing :)
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