Look What's "Hop"penning: "Center"ed for Success

Mrs. Johnson's class has been busy! We aim for success! In fact, we try to aim for perfection around here. In order to do that, Mrs. Johnson tries to meet with us in small groups to help us with our areas of weakness. While she does that, we work in centers. Our centers vary from week to week, but they are always hands-on and engaging! Centers are a privilege. Mrs. Johnson reminds us of this often. We usually cannot wait until 11:00 when we get to rotate to our stations. This is why it is important to stay focused and get our classwork finished so that we have time for centers. Busy, busy, busy!

Last week, we had six centers. Our language center dealt with subject-verb agreement. We have learned that if our subject is singular, our verb usually has an "s" on the end. If our subject is plural, our verb usually does not have an "s." Of course, there are exceptions...just like everything else in the English language! Ha! For example, "I" and "you" do not follow the rule. We sorted sentences according to whether they were correct or incorrect. Then, we corrected the subjects and verbs on the incorrect sentences. Once again, construction paper is a staple in our room!

De'Eric and Tatyanna concentrate on correct placement

Great Job!

There is one station that never changes. And, that's our AR Center. We can honestly say that we have 20-30 minutes uninterrupted reading time a week! During our AR Center time, we lounge around reading our AR books, taking AR tests, and checking out new books.

James and Jordan reading

Nothing like curling up with a good book!

For our social studies center, we read through one of our lessons answering questions that Mrs. Johnson prepared. We enjoyed learning about World War I and II!

De'Eric, Charles, and Tatyanna

For our writing center, we made corrections after Mrs. Johnson edited our writing. We wrote our final draft during this time.

Sabbion and Nareuna

Our reading center focused on Plot. We have spent a great deal of time talking about all the story elements. So, in our reading center, Mrs. Johnson gave us a reading passage from Study Island. She had the elements already typed out. Our job was to cut them out and glue them in the correct spot on a plot chart. We found the characters, setting, conflict, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution. After finishing our plot chart, we used this activity to answer two sample test items with the passage.