October Literacy Centers for First and Second Grade

Is it October? What?! Where did September go? I keep saying, "Oh the school year just started." Then I realize I've been in school for a month. It just flew by! I mentioned in my last post that I'm spending one more week doing September centers since we got a late start, but I wanted to show you all my October centers in case you wanted to get a jump start. They are a little different than they were when I posted about it last year. So here's a peak:

There are two options for menus because I had a few extra ideas. They only differ in a couple ways. 

Under the reading column, there are 4 centers:

Fonts in these previews are from Ginger Snaps. 

 Word Work: 5 centers

5 Writing Centers 

(the one not shown here is How to Carve a Pumpkin)

 5 Sentence Building centers

Keep in mind, there are many, many more pages that are not shown here. 

You can get the October centers at my TPT store.

I also have these centers for 2nd grade too. 

The reading centers are the same except for Read and Comprehend, which takes the place of Rebuild a Poem. I still included Rebuild a Poem in the pack, just in case. The other other centers are the same as first grade, but with a higher level of difficulty.

The Word Work centers are also similar, but more challenging. 

Harvesting words: Making words using the letters in the word harvest or scarecrow.

Pumpkin Words: Real or nonsense (more challenging words)

 Going Batty Making Words: connecting two syllable words
Sorting Treats: short and long e (with ea words like bread vs. treat)

Word Endings: suffixes
Glue a Sentence: two choices
Sentence Scrambler: to add a challenge, there are two ways to make each sentence. Once students unscramble the sentence, they can mix them up again to make another sentence.
Super Sentence: This is much more challenging than the first grade version! It has adjectives AND adverbs!

Writing centers:

You can get these 2nd grade menus at my TPT store.

I promise to post soon about Reading Workshop and guided reading groups.