Learning Center Activities For Spring And Summer Holidays

These interesting and challenging hands-on activities for learning centers help reinforce important concepts about holidays in America and allow for opportunities to extend and enrich students' knowledge and understanding of American culture.

These interesting and challenging hands-on activities for learning centers help reinforce important concepts about holidays in America and allow for opportunities to extend and enrich students' knowledge and understanding of American culture.

Prepare opportunities for purposeful play with students in grades PK–K using Let's Learn and Play! This 160-page book is a comprehensive resource for creating purposeful play centers that help students solve problems, experiment, navigate social situations, and prepare for learning. These well-designed, modifiable center ideas allow teachers to put a personal stamp on the classroom. The book supports NAEYC standards.

These learning center activities have been prepared to help teachers of lower elementary grades in teaching a unit emphasizing the February holidays. The recipes, word search, sentence builders, and story starters can be used with Valentine’s Day and President’s Day. They can also be used alongside your classroom lessons.

Keep students engaged with Learning Centers in Kindergarten. This 176-page book includes suggestions for how to set up learning centers, arrange the room with appropriate furniture, determine the number of students at each center, move in and between centers, develop activities, and find materials. It supports the Four-Blocks(R) Literacy Model and includes ideas for center time and month-by-month activities for eight centers.

These proven, practical early childhood teaching strategies and techniques help teachers identify young gifted children, differentiate and extend the curriculum, assess and document students’ development, and build partnerships with parents. Individual chapters focus on early identification, curriculum compacting, social studies, language arts, math and science, cluster grouping, social-emotional development, and finding and supporting giftedness in diverse populations. The text includes current information on brain research and learning; rigor and complexity; and integrating creativity, the arts, and higher-level thinking in accordance with learning goals. Scenarios and vignettes take readers into teachers’ classrooms. The book includes extensive references and resources to explore. Digital content includes customizable forms from the book.