Seasonal Writing Centers

Seasonal Writing Centers

This is one of my favorite, inexpensive, writing centers, especially for new teachers. All you need is a piece of poster board and some sticky notes. Draw, cut out and laminate a seasonal item, this pumpkin for fall, a flower for spring, etc. You can use your document camera to project it and trace it! :)
When you first start this center, you will need to model it and role play because everyone will want to walk back and forth to get a sticky note, but that's OK, as the year rolls on they will get use to the system and the best part....you can teach your small groups without interruption.

Fill up your poster with as many sticky notes as you want, depending on the grade level. You can start with just five or load it up! The students are allowed to take one sticky at a time to use that word in their writing. They need to write the word in their personal dictionaries, word work folders, whatever you use in your classroom, but that's the ONE "MUST DO" RULE.
By having the correct spelling of seasonal vocabulary, it will give them more confidence in their writing as well as an idea about what to write about if they are stuck. I've included two lists for you, a Fall List and a Halloween List.

Enjoy!

Fall Word List

acorn	apple	autumn
chilly	cider	cold
cool	corn	cornucopia
cranberry	crisp	crow
fall	falling leaves	feast
football	gourd	Halloween
harvest	hay	hay bale
hayride	haystack	leaf
leaves	maize	November
nut	October	pine cone
pumpkin	pumpkin pie	pumpkin spice
raincoat	rake	scarecrow
season	September	spider
squash	Thanksgiving	turkey

Halloween Word List

angel	astronaut	autumn
ballerina	bat	black
black cat	blood	bone
broomstick	candy	cape
carve	cat	cauldron
cemetery	cloak	clock
cobweb	coffin	costume
cowboy	cowgirl	creepy
crown	dark	dead
devil	disguise	dreadful
elf	enchant	evil
fairy	fall	fangs
fear	fireman	flashlight
fog	frighten	ghost
ghoul	goblin	goodies
gory	gown	grave
grim	Halloween	hat
haunt	haunted house	hay bale
hayride	headstone	howl
Jack O'Lantern	king	lantern
make-believe	make-up	magic
mask	midnight	monster
moon	moonlight	mummy
mysterious	night	nightmare
October	orange	owl
party	pirate	prank
pretend	prince	princess
pumpkin	robot	scare
scarecrow	scary	scream
shadow	skeleton	skull
soldier	spider	spooky
superhero	sweets	terrify
thirty-first	thrilling	tiara
tombstone	treat	trick
treat-or-treat	vampire	wand
warlock	web	werewolf
wicked	wig	witch
wizard	zombie