Write the Room

Happy Sunday to you!  

I have blogged and blogged and then blogged some more about how I run Centers in my classroom.  You can read more about it {HERE}.

I always have a Write the Room center.  I just switch out the activities.  My kids LOVE using a clipboard and hunting for word cards, number cards, or sentences around our classroom.  Every year, Write the Room is a favorite.  

I use a variety of activities so that my kids aren’t always hunting for the same thing.  I like to change it up and keep them guessing!

Last weekend, I had a night where I couldn’t sleep (that almost never happens so who knows?) which meant I started thinking and then I couldn’t stop thinking and the next thing I knew, I was out of bed and on my computer making a Write the Room center for a short vowel review.

My kids loved it!  There are 24 cards total for short vowels so I copied the recording sheets back to back.  In a twenty minute period, only one student was able to find and write all 24 words.  To me, that is perfect!  Ha!  My kids know if they finish the Write the Room center it’s actually not over – they get blank paper and walk around the room, copying and writing whatever they want (such as months of the year, friends’ names, sight words, spelling words, word wall words, focus wall skills, etc).  We call it being Word and Number Detectives but you might call it they finished too early, time is not up yet, just stay busy.

This pack also includes 24 cards for Beginning Sounds and 24 cards for Ending Sounds.  I just loaned mine out to one of our sixth grade teachers who has a daughter in kinder.  She is going to put them up around her house for her daughter to find.  How cute is that?

Next up, we will be studying blends so I just finished a Write the Room center for blends!  🙂  I was able to work on this during the day because I’ve been sleeping just fine since my one night of insomnia.  

I won’t always use word cards, though.  Here are just *some* of the Write the Room activities that I use throughout the year in my classroom.

Write the Room (Parts 1 and 2) by Teaching with Love and Laughter

These sets are perfect for the beginning of the year in my room because my kids know exactly what to do (hunt for the picture that is on the recording sheet and copy the word) and everyone is successful!

Write the Room – Sentences {Bundle} by Christina Winter 

These are great because they are differentiated and add a little rigor!

Autumn Harvest Write the Room for Numbers by Marsha McGuire 

All of Marsha’s Write the Room packs are fantastic — I listed this one because we just used it in our room.  The kids have to count the number of objects on each card and then there are various recording sheets for you to choose from, such as write the number in a ten frame or write the number that comes before and after.  Any way you look it, it’s fun for them and is an awesome quick check for me!

In the meantime, I’m giving away my new Blends Write the Room over on my Facebook page — so head on over there for a chance to win one!  🙂