Have you seen any of the fun-shaped Easter eggs in your local Walmart, Target, or Dollar Tree? I’ve seen everything from Lego-shaped “eggs” to flower-shaped “eggs” and I think they’re so much fun! There are so many ways that you can use the shaped “eggs” without making the activity seem like an Easter activity.

Math and literacy centers used to give me a headache. I’d be trying to run a small group while the rest of the class looked like the local zoo! I realized very quickly that centers would be a huge waste of instructional time if centers weren’t explicitly taught, and clear, easy to understand expectations were given. With some trial and error, I finally came up with the BEST possible way to run my centers and I’ve been running them this way for YEARS! Read my 5 tips for center success!

love paper centers just as much as the next person because I love the hands-on approach to learning. What I don’t love is spending hours of my personal time cutting and laminating hundreds of math centers, just to have to redo them all in a few years because of wear and tear.