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I have never blogged before in my life; however, seeing all the amazing teacher blogs out there inspired me to do so! I am currently on Spring Break, which is nice! I have been so busy with lesson plans. This is my fourth year teaching pre-k, but my first year implementing literacy centers into the classroom. I had no idea how much work it was going to be, but I'm sincerely enjoying every minute of it. I've found that my biggest problem so far is having students finish in their centers before the rest of the class is done. Some centers end up taking more time, right? So while I have been "spring breaking," I have been coming up with activities for my students to do when they finish a literacy center early. I created "write te Room" mini-books, and found a great Earth day game for next week as well. The Earth Day game I stumbled upon over at KinderPond http://kinderpond.blogspot.com/. I can't wait to teach my students the game on Monday, and see if they can do it independently in small groups when they finish up at their center. I will definitely let you know how to goes! Also, I'm including a picture of a box I made to put after-center literacy activities in. Actually, all I did was use wrapping paper to wrap a box top (I felt an actual box would be too deep and wouldn't remain organized and neat). I have a feeling the children are going to be excited by the new activity, I know I am!