This document summarizes learning activities at a center focused on animals, addressing various skills. The activities include dramatic play with animal props, art projects with animal prints and textures, writing animal names and labels, exploring animal fossils and toys in science and math, using animal toys and vehicles in blocks, examining animal items in a sensory table, reading animal books and using animal computer games, practicing breathing exercises with animal themes, singing songs with animal sounds and movements, and discussing topics like animal food chains at circle time.
This document summarizes learning activities at a center focused on animals, addressing various skills. The activities include dramatic play with animal props, art projects with animal prints and textures, writing animal names and labels, exploring animal fossils and toys in science and math, using animal toys and vehicles in blocks, examining animal items in a sensory table, reading animal books and using animal computer games, practicing breathing exercises with animal themes, singing songs with animal sounds and movements, and discussing topics like animal food chains at circle time.
This document summarizes learning activities at a center focused on animals, addressing various skills. The activities include dramatic play with animal props, art projects with animal prints and textures, writing animal names and labels, exploring animal fossils and toys in science and math, using animal toys and vehicles in blocks, examining animal items in a sensory table, reading animal books and using animal computer games, practicing breathing exercises with animal themes, singing songs with animal sounds and movements, and discussing topics like animal food chains at circle time.
This document summarizes learning activities at a center focused on animals, addressing various skills. The activities include dramatic play with animal props, art projects with animal prints and textures, writing animal names and labels, exploring animal fossils and toys in science and math, using animal toys and vehicles in blocks, examining animal items in a sensory table, reading animal books and using animal computer games, practicing breathing exercises with animal themes, singing songs with animal sounds and movements, and discussing topics like animal food chains at circle time.
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LEARNING CENTER STANDARDS ADDRESSED
DRAMATIC PLAY: animal fur, animal hats/ears, animal food CGK: With modeling and support, remember and use information for a variety of purposes; ATL: Use prior (leaves, meat, etc.) knowledge and information to assess, inform, and plan for future actions and learning.
ART: animal prints to paste, animal textures to stamp, animal PWBMD: Coordinate the use of hands, fingers and wrists to manipulate objects and perform tasks requiring precise outlines to trace movements; ATL: Use imagination and creativity to interact with objects and materials.
WRITING: animal names and labels printed, list of the alphabet LL: Ask meaning of words; ATL: Express individuality, life experiences, and what they know and are able to do with each letter corresponding to an animal through a variety of media.
SCIENCE & DISCOVERY: animal fossils and parts (claws, CGK: Sort and classify objects by one or more attributes (e.g., size, number); CGK: Explore objects, materials and teeth, etc.) events in the environment.
MATH: small animal toys and families CGK: Describe and compare objects using measurable attributes (e.g., length, size, capacity and weight); CGK: Count to solve simple addition and subtraction problems with totals smaller than 8, using concrete objects.
BLOCKS: small animal toys and cars that transport them PWBMD: Regulate reactions to external sensory stimuli in order to focus on complex tasks or activities; PWBMD: With modeling and support, identify and follow basic safety rules.
SENSORY TABLE: feathers, grass and dirt, shark teeth, sand, CGK: Create patterns; ATL: Ask questions to seek explanations about phenomena of interest. shells, and/or all of the above
READING/CLASSROOM LIBRARY: books about animals or LL: With modeling and support, use words acquired through conversations and shared reading experiences. with animal characters as well as animal plush toys (Vocabulary); LL: Identify characters and major events in a story.
COMPUTERS: games involving animals (realistic or fiction) LL: Identify real-life connections between words and their use. (Vocabulary); CGK: Solve problems by planning and carrying out a sequence of actions.
SAFE PLACE: animal-themed breathing exercises and plus toys LL: Speak audibly and express thoughts, feelings and ideas clearly. (Articulation); SEL: Communicate a range of emotions in socially accepted ways.
SONGS/MUSIC/MOVEMENT: songs with animal sounds and CGK: Recreate complex ideas, events/ situations with personal adaptations; SEL: Interact with peers in more pictures or videos with animal movement complex pretend play including planning, coordination of roles, and cooperation.
POSSIBLE CIRCLE TIME ACTIVITIES/DISCUSSIONS: LL: With modeling and support, identify the topic of an informational text that has been read aloud; CGK: Seek animal food chains, animal features, how to take care of animals, more than one solution to a question, problem or task. animal movement, etc.
