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Center Based Instruction
We have written three center-based
instruction e-books that offer many center activities and patterns. To
learn more about these e-books simply click on the book titles to the
right.
Tara Byran - A
friend of ABC Schoolhouse has submitted some ideas to share that we have
featured on this page. Thank you Tara!
If you have ideas that
you would like to share, we encourage you to do so by using the "Lesson
Plans Submission" icon located on the right side of the homepage.
Tara's Center
Activities
Nature Center
Sort and Count Seeds. Place a few seeds in a muffin tin and let children
sort a cupful of seeds in the correct places.
Block Center
Sort large and small blocks. Have signs ready that say "LARGE" and "small"
and let the children sort the LARGE blocks under the LARGE sign and sort
the small blocks under the small sign.
Manipulative
Center
Sort manipulatives by color, size and shape. Dump out several different
tubs of manipulatives on the floor and let the children sort by color.
Then sort by shape and then by size. To clean up have the children sort
them back into the correct bin.
Color Bingo
Play color bingo at the manipulative table. I use the color bingo that has
8 squares (2 rows and 4 columns) and that have circles with 11
colors (red, blue, yellow, green, orange, purple, brown, black, pink,
gray, and white). This game is very easy to make or you can buy one.
Reading Center
Read Brown Bear, Brown Bear What Do You See? Make a class book of
each child telling you something that they see. Start out like Brown bear,
brown bear, what do you see? (picture of a brown bear) I see Mrs. Tara
(teacher’s name) smiling at me. (picture of teacher smiling). Mrs. Tara,
Mrs. Tara (teacher’s name) what do you see? I see (child’s name) looking
at me. (child’s name, child’s name) what do you see? (child draws a
picture of who he/she sees). I see (who) looking at me. And so on.
Easel Center
Allow the children to color on black or dark blue paper using color
chalks.
Tara's Color
Activities
Rainbow Song
(Tune: Twinkle, Twinkle)
Red and orange, green and blue, shiny yellow, purple too.
All the colors we know, line up in the rainbow.
Red and orange, green and blue, shiny yellow, purple too.
Color Game
Give each child a red, green, blue or yellow shaped person cutout.
Encourage her to move her color fellow at the appropriate time.
Red, green, blue and yellow: These are the color fellows.
Hold yours up when you hear its name.
It’s time to play a color game.
Red, red, move so high. Reach and try to touch the sky.
Green, green, move round and round. Circle up and circle down.
Blue, blue, move left and right. Move until you’re out of sight.
Yellow, yellow, move front and back. Keep on moving. Stay on track.
Our color game is almost done. Let’s play again; oh what fun!
Colors
Is your favorite color blue? If it is, then move your shoe.
Is your favorite color red? If it is then nod your head.
Is your favorite color green? If it is, then look real mean.
Is your favorite color yellow? If it is, then shake like jell-o.
Is your favorite color brown? If it is, then jump up and down.
Now touch your shoe, nod your head, look real mean, shake like Jell-o,
jump up and down and say your favorite color.
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