Have you ever wondered what to do next with early finishers? Attend this session to receive a wealth of anchor activities to keep them going while waiting for others to finish. Anchor activities provide extension, enrichment, or practice of key concepts and skills covered. Participants will walk away with ready-to-use activities for any classroom setting.

1. A Collection of Ideas for Early Finishers Presented by: Shanetta Pittman and Angela Mallory Weldon City Schools pittmansh@weldoncityschools.k12.nc.us mallorya@weldoncityschools.k12.nc.us

2. “In this class we are never finished. Learning is a process that never ends.” Carol Ann Tomlinson The Early Finisher

3. High time on task To allow students to work independently on ongoing assignments throughout a unit To keep students challenged after they’ve completed assignments To provide a strategy for teachers to deal with “ragged time” when students complete work at different times To allow the teacher to work with students to target specific academic skills, modify and enrich curriculum, and better meet the needs of individual students Why Should I Provide Activities For The Early Finisher?

5. Management procedures should already be in place.

6. The activities should be able to be completed with little to no teacher intervention or assistance.

7. The activities should be meaningful.

8. The activities should be tied to specific content or skills that need to be reinforced.

9. You should have a plan for managing and monitoring the activities. TIPS BEFORE PLANNING THE ACTIVITIES

11. Journal Writing or Learning Logs

12. Vocabulary Work

13. Math “Problem of the Day”

14. Learning Centers

15. Vocabulary Practice

16. Portfolio Management

17. Agenda notesGeneral Activities for Early Finishers

18. Content Activities for Early Finishers Math Imagine a trip you'd really like to take. With permission from your teacher, visit a travel website (such as travelocity.com) and check on available plane tickets and lodgings. Add up the total amount it would cost you to take the trip. How could you get the best deal? Science Come up with a list of new "essential questions" you'd like to have answered about our unit of study. Social Studies Create an imaginary continent. Then, draw and name the countries on that continent. Be sure to include borders, capital cities, etc. Then, write about one of the countries. Explain its government, culture, and laws. Vocabulary Create categories or groups for your spelling words, then figure out a way Reading Write a letter to the author of a book you've enjoyed.

20. Dry erase board/Bulletin Board

21. Hang from the ceiling

22. Laminate and tape to the desks

23. Learning Centers

24. Colored folders

25. Index cards

26. Shoe box

27. Egg Carton

29. Tomlinson, C. A. (2001). How to differentiate in mixed- ability classrooms. Alexandria, VA: Association for the Supervision of Curriculum Development. Reference