Easy to Reset: Each activity should be easy for students to reset or clean up independently when the rotation is over.This way, teachers don’t have to spend a lot of time preparing their students to work independently. Routine-Oriented: Low prep centers typically have a similar routine from week to week.When it’s time to prep the centers for the day or week, it’s easy to just grab and go! Grab-and-Go: Each activity in a low prep centers rotation is typically self-contained and easy to store.Reusable: Whatever work is put into prepping the centers is only done once! Then the activity can be reused for years to come.There will be no tiny, intricate cutting! Require Minimal Cutting: If you DO need to cut things out in order to prepare an activity for your students, it can usually be done quickly with a paper slicer.But what does that really mean? What one teacher considers low prep, another teacher might find a bit too time-consuming.Įven though the criteria for low prep centers activities are different for every teacher, these activities usually have one or more of the following features:

There are certain terms that we hear often as teachers, and “low prep” is one of them.

Centers for kindergarten classrooms