Learning Center Activities
Blocks
- Uses large muscles
- Learns to use own ideas
- Participates in Conversation
- Experiments in working with others
- Begins to recognize rights of others
- Learns to put materials away
- Learns to make decisions
Art Center
- Enjoys sensory experiences
- Has opportunity to discover color
- Has outlet for self-expression
- Discovers interesting ways to use materials
- Has opportunity for social experiences
- Has opportunity to enjoy manipulation-squeezing, pounding, pushing, and pulling
Housekeeping
- Plays out home experiences
- Develops muscular coordination through dressing dolls, ironing, and rocking
- Plays alone or with another pupil
- Has opportunities to cooperate with others
- Reveals thoughts and attitudes through conversation
Reading
- Has opportunity to handle and enjoy books
- Learns to listen to stories
- Has opportunity for new ideas
- Increases vocabulary
- Begins to take responsibility for the care of books
- Has opportunity to add to previous experiences
- Begins to discover the meaning of printed words
- Learns to interpret pictures
- Develops imagination
- Has opportunity for dramatization
Table Games
- Enjoys a sense of achievement
- Learns to think
- Learns to plan
- Has the opportunity to work alone
- Develops coordination
- Experiences success
- Learns to solve problems
Science/Discovery
- Learns to appreciate nature
- Enjoys sensory experiences (seeing, hearing, smelling, touching, tasting)
- Learns to help care for plants and animals
- Begins to learn about environment
- Satisfies curiosity about world
- Experiments with color, size, shape, and measurement
- Examines things under a magnifying glass
- Learns through discovery