So I have about a handful or two of students who always completes their work before everyone else and it's hard to have them work ahead. I was thinking about making a display with different compartments, that holds different assignments and activities for those students who always finish first. I haven't had the time to make it yet, but my supervising teacher had a container with center work that we're going to use.

It's not all that fancy, I know, but it is practical. I have a few folders with skills students are learning, like parts of speech, idioms, etc. This is just temporary until I can buy a display board and make it all pretty! But if you put a few folders on the white board and inform the students that when they are finished with their work, they can do an activity from one of the folders in the front of the room, it will eliminate the "I'm done, what do I do know?" question.