Centers Rock!
Elements of Developmentally Appropriate Learning Centers:
a. Active manipulation of objects
b. Materials that are engaging and engage all senses
c. Freedom of body movement
d. learning through interesting experiences.
e. freedom to interact with others
Children are given extended periods of time to complete activites. You say you have no time? You can incorporate any skill you are teaching or wanting children to learn into a center activity.
In centers children are:
a. encouraged to think, give reasons and solve problems
b. time is spend constructing projects and learning concepts they have been introduced to
Children should be grouped with children from a variety of developmental abilities
I hear, and I forget!
I see, and I remember!
I do, and I understand
--Chinese Proverb
a. Active manipulation of objects
b. Materials that are engaging and engage all senses
c. Freedom of body movement
d. learning through interesting experiences.
e. freedom to interact with others
Children are given extended periods of time to complete activites. You say you have no time? You can incorporate any skill you are teaching or wanting children to learn into a center activity.
In centers children are:
a. encouraged to think, give reasons and solve problems
b. time is spend constructing projects and learning concepts they have been introduced to
Children should be grouped with children from a variety of developmental abilities
I hear, and I forget!
I see, and I remember!
I do, and I understand
--Chinese Proverb
Everyday Centers
October 2013
November Centers
Ideas for center/Themes for your classroom
(Depending on when you do them (month etc):
A-Apples, All About Me, Alphabet
B-Bears,butterflies,birthdays, Baseball, Birds, Bats, Bones, Butterflies, Books,bees,bugs,beach
C-Community Helpers, colors, Camping, caterpillars and butterflies, construcction
D-dinosaurs, dental health, Dr. SeussDental Health, Desert
E-Easter, Eric Carle, Eggs
F-Fall, Families, Farms, Fairy tales, fire safety,flowers, forest, Father's Day, Flowers, Football, Friends, Frogs,friendship, Five senses,
G-Garden, Graduation, Grandparents
H-Halloween, Hockey, Home, Humpty Dumpty, Hungry Caterpillar, hearts
I-Ice Cream, Ice Skating, Insects
J-Jack-O-Lanterns
K-Kites
L-Lady Bugs, Literacy, leaves, letters
M-magnets, Mail, Math, Mother's Day, Music
N-Nutrition, nursery rhymes, names, numbers
O-Ocean
P- Pumpkins, pets, Picnic, pizza, Presidents Day, Polar animals, ponds
Q-Quilts, Queen
R-Rabbits, Recipes, Rainbow, Reptiles, Rhyming, recycling
S-Snow, Santa, Spring, Summertime, scarecrows, school, Five Senses, Snakes, shapes, sports, space
T-Teeth, Thanksgiving, Trains, Turkey, Turtles, transportation
U-Umbrella
V-Valentines,
Vegetables
W-Weather, winter
X-X-Ray
Y-Yellow
Z-Zoo
5 senses
(Depending on when you do them (month etc):
A-Apples, All About Me, Alphabet
B-Bears,butterflies,birthdays, Baseball, Birds, Bats, Bones, Butterflies, Books,bees,bugs,beach
C-Community Helpers, colors, Camping, caterpillars and butterflies, construcction
D-dinosaurs, dental health, Dr. SeussDental Health, Desert
E-Easter, Eric Carle, Eggs
F-Fall, Families, Farms, Fairy tales, fire safety,flowers, forest, Father's Day, Flowers, Football, Friends, Frogs,friendship, Five senses,
G-Garden, Graduation, Grandparents
H-Halloween, Hockey, Home, Humpty Dumpty, Hungry Caterpillar, hearts
I-Ice Cream, Ice Skating, Insects
J-Jack-O-Lanterns
K-Kites
L-Lady Bugs, Literacy, leaves, letters
M-magnets, Mail, Math, Mother's Day, Music
N-Nutrition, nursery rhymes, names, numbers
O-Ocean
P- Pumpkins, pets, Picnic, pizza, Presidents Day, Polar animals, ponds
Q-Quilts, Queen
R-Rabbits, Recipes, Rainbow, Reptiles, Rhyming, recycling
S-Snow, Santa, Spring, Summertime, scarecrows, school, Five Senses, Snakes, shapes, sports, space
T-Teeth, Thanksgiving, Trains, Turkey, Turtles, transportation
U-Umbrella
V-Valentines,
Vegetables
W-Weather, winter
X-X-Ray
Y-Yellow
Z-Zoo
5 senses
