Still Loving Stations... (and they're helping!)

     I know I've written about it before, but the boys LOVE when we have station day in our Starfall curriculum! It's one thing that, no matter the day, they're always excited to do. This time we did a sight word Concentration type game where they matched up sight words, a color by word, computer time on more.starfall.com, and the reading station where they read their book for the week and match it up with the word cards for the book. Basically every week I spend forever cutting out what feels like billions of these little cards. There is a card for each word, rebus picture, and punctuation for the whole story! The story is only 4-6 pages long.... but still... lol. Anyway, this time it was a mad dash for the computer time and Concentration. They did great with their sight words for Concentration and both did some really cool stuff on more.starfall.com. They tend to gravitate toward the coin activities (which has helped TREMENDOUSLY in being able to tell me the differences between coins and their values), and these spacial area type activities. If you want some supplemental fun for the kiddos that isn't terribly expensive but incredibly educational AND fun, check out more.starfall.com. Seriously. Good stuff.
     After they took their turns with the computer and matching game, they begrudingly (oy) moved onto the other two activities. I think they leave these for last because they take longer, but always end up having fun. The funny part is once they get started on the book part, they like it and do great! I seriously love this activity educational-wise. It always amazes me how well they do reading the story, and finding the right cards! I help them by putting the cards in the chart so they can concentrate on the words, plus it goes MUCH faster that way...haha! This weeks story was longer than the previous ones, so I was pretty impressed how great they did. Another really great aspect of this is that it forces them to notice punctuation! They already know what periods and quotation marks are for, and can recognize commas, which I think is pretty cool. The Starfall Kindergarten curriculum really seems pretty great in general to me. Obviously I'm not a teacher and I don't know exactly what they should be able to do, but I do know they do really well at everything they've tried so far. So proud of my guys!