Transition+Ideas

This page is for transition ideas.

Transitioning between lessons in Mrs. Stephens class always seemed very random. Kindergarten students work at such different paces, and some would finish long before others. To balance this, the teacher had a couple of different ways to occupy the finished students. She had many books on the carpet that the students could "read". She also had a huge stack of newspapers that the students could go through: they got a marker and a newspaper and highlighted the letter of the week or sight words that they could find. It was busy work, but the students enjoyed it and it gave them something to do. It also gave the teacher time to work with some of the "slower" students and not have to worry about the faster ones. As a whole class, the typical thing done to move from activity to activity was a bathroom break or a "stretch break".