My students had so much fun making this mini-chicka boom boom tree. Parents sent in paper towel and toilet paper tubes. I cut out some green leaves, provided plain circle stickers for the letters and glue stick. This was within my Art Center and the students completed it in 15-20 minutes.

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This is what my Word Work station is during the first six weeks of school. The letter-object-sound tubs, from Lakeshore Learning are in the Science sand & water table. My students have created so many

This is what the Word Work station looked like when I was in a neat and organized mood. Then, when the containers got put back with the objects all mixed up, I just dumped them in the sand & water table. The kids like it even better. Nice and neat is not so much fun for Kids!

This is the pocket chart I use to rotate my students through Centers/Workstations. I move the Center tag down after 10-15 minutes, which rotates the students to their next station.

I store my little plastic letters in the box from the craft section of Wal-Mart.

This is the “Alphabet Arc” from Neahaus. They can be purchased there or at other places online. It is great for teaching phonics and 1:1 correspondence matching letters to letters.