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Student Teacher: Carolyn Espinoza

LEARNING CENTERS
Blocks
Housekeeping/Dramatic Play
Math Discovery
Art and Creative Experiences
Community Helper Match Up
Topic: Restaurant
Spot the Dot Cards (Student Set)
Sponge Painting
Class: ECD 237
Class: ECD 131
Class: ECD 133
Class: ECD 237
Purpose: To integrate math
Purpose: Gives children the
Purpose: To enhance counting
Purpose: Gives children the
through one to one
opportunity to integrate both
skills through number and
opportunity to explore with
correspondence by requiring
math and literacy while
operation.
different textures while painting
children to match the
pretending to run a restaurant. Five Frame Cards (Student Set)
and using their creativity.
community helper to the correct Objects included: plastic foods,
Class: ECD 133
Materials included: paint,
utensils they use.
plates, bowls, utensils, receipts,
Purpose: Allows children to
different sponges, water, card
Various Hats
menus, cook books, aprons, hats,
visualize dots in different
stock paper
Class: None
open/close sign, measuring cups, formations. Enhances childrens
Colorful Collaging
Purpose: Gives children the
telephone
understanding of different
Class: ECD 237
opportunity to dramatize
Topic: Post Office
formations of numbering.
Purpose: Children will
community helpers such as
Class: ECD 131
Jungle Grid Game
experiment with various
firefighters or construction
Purpose: Gives children the
Class: ECD 133
materials of different colors and
workers.
opportunity to integrate both
Purpose: Enhances childrens
textures by putting them
Wooden Blocks
math and literacy while
number and operation skills
together to make a collage.
Class: None
pretending to run a post office
through one to one
Materials included: pompoms,
Purpose: Allows children to
Objects included: envelops,
correspondence.
pipe cleaners, glue, paper,
build towers using blocks. Also
writing utensils, mail boxes,
Rocket Ship Path Game
scissors, feathers, beads
introduces problem solving
rolled up newspapers, writing
Class: ECD 133
Masher Print Painting
skills to the children when
surfaces, stamps, stickers, boxes Purpose: Enhances childrens
Class: ECD 132
learning where and how to place
Book: The Hueys in the New
number and operations skills by
Purpose: Integrates math by
the blocks correctly.
Sweater
requiring them to count and use allowing children to experiment
Pictures of Diverse Community
Class: None
addition
with different potato mashers
Helpers
Purpose: This book introduces a
Insect Sorting
which creates different shapes,
Class: ECD 108
specific article of clothing. Also
Class: ECD 237
prints, and textures on the paper.
Purpose: Gives children
enhances social emotional skills
Purpose: Integrates math by
Materials included: paint, paper,
visualization of diverse people
by learning that its okay to
requiring children to categorize
different potato mashers
working in various careers.
stand out and be different.
and sort insects by multiple
Assorted Writing Surfaces
Example: Woman Doctor
Book: Shoe Bop! By: Marilyn
attributes such as number and
Class: ECD 131
Ramps & Pathways
Singer
color, also integrates science by Purpose: Allows children to write
Class: ECD 133
Class: None
identifying characteristics of
when the feel the need and use
Purpose: Allows children to
Purpose: This book introduces
living things
different materials. Enhances fine
explore physical science by
the different types of shoes.
Ice Cream Cone Match Up
motor skills.
giving them opportunities to roll Children will explore the different
Class: ECD 237
Assorted Writing Utensils
various objects down the ramp. attributes of the various types of Purpose: Integrates literacy by
Class: ECD 131
Various Items to Roll Down
shoes such as heels, tennis,
using different kinds of print to
Purpose: Enhances fine motor
Ramp
sneakers, etc..
represent numerals. Children will skills by using different utensils
Class: ECD 133
Book: Pretend By: Jennifer Plecas have to match up the cone to the
of size and shape
Purpose: Objects that will be
Class: None
scoop of ice cream and the
Pictures of Diverse People
included are marbles, pompoms, Purpose: This book serves as
chocolate topping
Class: ECD 108
erasers, rubber balls, etc.
motivation for children to use
Foam Numbers
Purpose: Visualization of
Allows children to compare and their imagination and creativity
Class: None
different people creating art.
contrast how fast each object when engaging in play within the
Purpose: Gives children the
Some may have disabilities or
moves.
dramatic play center.
visualization of numbers
other physical traits.

Road Signs
Book: Gingerbread Mouse By:
I Have, Who Has Cards
Book: I Know A Wee Piggy By:
Class: None
Katy Bratun
Class: ECD 237
Kim Norman with Felt Pieces
Purpose: Gives children the
Class: None
Purpose: Class set used to
Class: ECD 131
opportunity to visualize
Purpose: This children can be
enhance math by gaining
Purpose: To enhance the
environmental print while in the used with a stuffed animal prop. knowledge of different colors and exploration of color with young
block center.
Integrates literacy by introducing geometrical shapes also shows
children
new vocabulary.
one to one correspondence by
Book: The Legend of the Indian
matching
Paintbrush By: Tomie DePaola
Tangrams
Class: None
Class: ECD 133
Purpose: To give children a
Purpose: Gives children the
visualization of illustrations
opportunity to experiment with
made from different materials
different shapes. Also shows how Book: Draw Me a Star By: Eric
shapes can be made up of other
Carle
shapes.
Class: None
Tangram Puzzles
Purpose: Shows children
Class: ECD 133
illustrations done by different
Purpose: Shows how shapes can
materials and can also teach
come together and create a
them how to draw a star
picture or new shapes
Book: Who Said Red? By: Mary
Button Sorting
Serfozo
Class: ECD 133
Class: None
Purpose: Children will sort
Purpose: Gives children the
buttons based on multiple
opportunity to explore different
attributes such as color, shape,
materials that have multiple
size, and number of holes
colors and attributes.
Five Fat Peas Chart
Book: White Rabbits Color Book
Class: ECD 237
By: Alan Baker
Purpose: Integrates literacy into
Class: None
math because it enhances
Purpose: Allows children to
vocabulary skills while also
explore the mixture of colors and
counting down from five
how they can create other colors.
Community Helper Number Cards
Class: ECD 237
Purpose: To show numbers in
numerical formation and the
number of objects each career
uses. Uses one to one
correspondence by matching the
cards together. Also integrates
social studies.
Book: 1, 2, 3 How Many Animals
Can You See? By: Emilie Boone &
Felt Pieces
Class: ECD 237
Purpose: To enhance number and
operation skills through counting
and one to one correspondence
Book: Five Little Monkeys

Literacy and Library


Science Discovery
Sound Boxes
Weather Match Up
Class: ECD 131
Class: ECD 237
Purpose: Using the letters C, F,
Purpose: Children will gain
AND D children are able to
knowledge on the different types
explore different sounds using of weather that they may not be
various materials to represent
familiar with. Also integrates
those sounds.
literacy because the word is
Barnyard Bingo
under the picture.
Class: ECD 131
Parts of a Tree
Purpose: Introduces the concept
Class: ECD 237
of onomatopoeia to children
Purpose: Children will explore
using animal sounds. Also
the different parts of a tree by
integrates math by using one to matching the word to the correct
one correspondence by placing part. Terms used are root, trunk,
chips on that sound
fruit, and branch.
Assorted Writing Surfaces
Science Word Cards
Class: ECD 131
Class: ECD 133
Purpose: Allows children to
Purpose: Integrates literacy
write when the feel the need
while introducing science
and use different materials.
concepts through print.

Jumping on the Bed By: Eileen


Christelow
Class: None
Purpose: To introduce a
predictable book to children that
focuses on counting up to five.
Book: Sea Sums By: Joy N. Hulme
Class: None
Purpose: Helps build on
childrens counting skills by
counting up to four. Also helps
children understand the concept
of addition and subtraction.
Book: Coconut Mon By: Cheryl
Munro Taylor
Class: None
Purpose: Incorporates diversity
within the classroom and also
enhances counting skills by
counting coconuts on each page.
Book: Ten Black Dots By: Donald
Crews
Class: None
Purpose: Children will explore
materials that contains a certain
amount of black dots. By using
this book childrens counting
skills will be enhanced.
Sand, Water and Sensory
Experience
Foam Numbers
Class: None
Purpose: Promotes literacy skills
by allowing children to explore
the letters and enhance alphabet
knowledge.
Buckets and Shovels
Class: None
Purpose: Promotes the
exploration of sand
Droppers
Class: ECD 133
Purpose: Shows children how
water can be transformed from
different materials
Tubes & Corks
Class: ECD 133
Purpose: Shows how water can
move through different objects

Music and Movement


Movement Chart
Class: ECD 237
Purpose: Allows children to
explore the concept of rhythm
while promoting physical
development by following the
movements.
Rhythm Sticks
Class: ECD 237
Purpose: Gives children
opportunities to create music
using various instruments. Also
gives them the chance to explore
music concepts such as rhythm
and beat.
Ribbon Sticks
Class: ECD 237
Purpose: Promotes gross motor
movements, able to use while
dancing to different songs

Enhances fine motor skills.


Earth Worms
and can also be stopped by corks
CD player with CDS
Assorted Writing Utensils
Class: Allows children to explore
and plugs
Class: None
Class: ECD 131
the characteristics of living
Different Sized Cups
Purpose: Allows children to
Purpose: Enhances fine motor
things. Food, soil, etc. will be
Class: ECD 133
promote physical development
skills by using different utensils
provided
Purpose: To show children how
through music
of size and shape
Different Rocks
different sized cups can hold
Exercise Dice
Foam Letters
Class: ECD 133
different amounts of water
Class: ECD 135
Class: None
Purpose: Exploring different
Measuring Cups & Spoons
Purpose: Promotes physical
Purpose: Gives children the
kinds of rocks that have different
Class: ECD 133
development through exercise
chance to experiment with the characteristics such as texture,
Purpose: Shows different
and also is an independent or
formation of different letters.
size, shape, and color
measurement attributes and
group game. Integrates math by
Flannel Board
Pond Life Sensory Bin
units. Also gives children the
using numbers to determine how
Class: ECD 237
Class: ECD 133
opportunity to experiment with
many movements to perform.
Purpose: Children will
Purpose: Gives children the
different numbers and amounts.
Homemade Drums
experiment with the flannel
opportunity to explore pond life
Playdoh & Cutters
Class: ECD 132
board when retelling stories
by seeing the different
Class: None
Purpose: Allows children to
using felt pieces.
components that are within a
Purpose: Children will use the
explore with different musical
Owl Tumbler
pond such as different plants and cutters to create different shapes
instruments
Class: ECD 237
animals. Also exploring different out of playdoh which integrates
Rain Sticks
Purpose: Enhances childrens
textures using the beads.
math. Children are also exploring
Class: ECD 132
alphabet knowledge by
Frog Life Cycle Cards
different textures with the
Purpose: To show the different
matching upper and lower case
Class: ECD 133
playdoh/clay.
sounds and pitches of musical
letters
Purpose: Shows the life cycle of a Book: Sand By: Margaret Moone
instruments
Syllable Sorting
frog. Integrates math by
Class: None
Book: Animal Serenade By: Susan
Class: ECD 237
requiring children to correctly Purpose: Informational text with
James Frye
Purpose: To give children
sequence the stages.
pictures that shows children
Class: None
opportunities to explore
Plant Life Cycle Cards
different attributes with sand
Purpose: To show children how
syllables by breaking down
Class: ECD 133
music is written and to introduce
words and sorting them into Purpose: Shows the life cycle of a
a variety of songs
categories such as one, two, and
plant. Integrates math by
Book: Lets Get The Rhythm of
three
requiring children to correctly
the Band By: Cheryl Warren
Hansel and Gretel Puppets
sequence the stages.
Mattox
Class: ECD 131
Senses Match Up
Class: None
Purpose: Children are able to
Class: None
Purpose: Introduces diverse
recall important events in the
Purpose: Introduces the five
music to children. Also serves as
story by using puppets to act
senses to young children. Also
an informational book about
out the story.
integrates math through one to
famous musicians and artists.
Hansel and Gretel Masks
one correspondence.
Shows children the formation of
Class: ECD 131
Pictures of Various Plants
written music and lyrics as well.
Purpose: Children are able to
Class: ECD 132
recall important events in the
Purpose: Gives children the
story by using masks to act out
opportunities to explore the
the story.
different characteristics of living
Rhyming Dice
things (plants).
Class: ECD 131
Journals
Purpose: Enhances vocabulary
Class: None
and literacy development by
Purpose: Children will use
requiring children to roll the
journals to document what
dice and come up with a word
theyve learned while exploring

that rhymes with the picture it in the science center. Promotes


lands on
childrens literacy skills through
B & C Sorting Mat
words and drawings of their
Class: ECD 131
representations.
Purpose: Enhances childrens
Land or Water Sorting
literacy development through
Class: ECD 133
the exploration of beginning
Purpose: Children will explore
sounds. Also integrates math by the different habitats of animals.
requiring children to sort
Children will sort the animals
pictures/objects based on their which live on the water or either
beginning sounds.
land. Integrates math by sorting.
Letter Match Up
Sea Life Grid Game
Class: None
Class: ECD 133
Purpose: Children will place the
Purpose: Enhances childrens
clothespin with the correct
number and operation skills
lower case to the card with the
through one to one
matching upper case. This
correspondence.
activity enhances childrens
Sea Turtle Path Game
alphabet knowledge.
Class: ECD 133
Big Red Barn Chart
Purpose: Enhances childrens
Class: ECD 131
number and operations skills by
Purpose: Children will be able to requiring them to count and use
visualize print while exploring
addition
with different animal sounds
Im Bringing Home a Baby
Book: Hansel and Gretel By:
Bumble Bee Chart
Erica Waters
Class: ECD 237
Class: ECD 131
Purpose: Enhances childrens
Purpose: Gives children the
phonological awareness by
opportunity to retell a story
introducing rhyming words and
using different props. Also
onomatopoeia
requires children to use problem
Book: What is a Life Cycle?
solving and predicting skills.
Class: None
Book: The Little Engine That
Purpose: Explains what exactly a
Could with Props
life cycle is. This book has
Class: ECD 131
illustrations that will be very
Purpose: Children will explore
descriptive and information to
using props in order to correctly
young children.
sequence events within the
Book: The Life Cycle of a Frog
book.
Class: None
Book: Llama Llama and the Bully
Purpose: Shows children the
Goat By: Anna Dewdney
different phases of a frogs life
Class: None
cycle
Purpose: To introduce
predictable books to children.
Children should be able to
repeat from page to page
Book: Little Burro By: Jim
Arnosky
Class: None

Purpose: To enrich childrens


vocabulary using rich words
Book: Luke Goes to Bat By:
Rachel Isadora
Class: None
Purpose: Teaches children a
moral while incorporating
diversity
Book: Prince Cinders By:
Babette Cole
Class: None
Purpose: To introduce
onomatopoeia to young children
as they read
Book: The Cow That Went Oink
By: Bernard Most
Class: None
Purpose: To show children the
sounds that animals make.
Could be read before playing
barnyard bingo.
Book: Is Your Mama a Llama?
By: Deborah Guarino
Class: None
Purpose: Teaches children
repetition and rhyming words
Book: Jump Frog Jump! By:
Robert Kalan
Class: None
Purpose: Easy concept book that
will get children participating
and reading the repetitive verse
Book: Beady Bear By: Don
Freeman
Class: None
Purpose: Easy book that
children can use to look at the
black and white pictures and
make up their own story as they
go along.
Book: Oink! Moo! How Do You
Do? By: Grace Maccarone
Class: None
Purpose: Children will explore
animal sounds which will
enhance literacy skills through
sound recognition.
Book: Library Lil By: Suzanne
Williams

Class: None
Purpose: This book is reading
books and the library. Children
will use their imagination while
reading this story.
Book: El Dia De Ricardo By:
George Ancona
Class: None
Purpose: This book serves
purpose for diverse students.
Children will be able to explore
a book that is written in a
different language. (Spanish)
Book: My No, No, No Day! By:
Rebecca Patterson
Class: None
Purpose: This book appeals to
the social emotional
development of young children.
Can be used to introduce new
vocabulary words.
Book: How I Was Adopted By
Joanne Cole
Class: None
Purpose: This book explains the
concept of adoption. Could be
used if children within the class
are adopted. Promotes diversity.
Book: K is for Kwanza By:
Juwanda G. Ford
Class: None
Purpose: Integrates diversity
within the classroom by allowing
children to explore different
cultures and traditions.

Food Experiences
My Plate Poster with Food Cards

Writing
Long Ago and Today

Outdoors
Scarfs

Other

Class: ECD 135


Class: ECD 237
Class: None
Purpose: Children will explore
Purpose: Gives children the
Purpose: Allows children to
healthy food choices. Math is
opportunity to explore the
create physical movement using
also integrated because children differences in inventions from
scarfs
will have to sort the different
long ago and today and can
Plastic Balls
foods into the correct category.
possibly write/draw them.
Class: None
Snack Cards
World Map
Purpose: Enhances physical
Class: ECD 135
Class: None
development by using
Purpose: To show children the
Purpose: Gives children a
manipulative skills through
proper amount of each food
visualization of the world in
throwing and catching.
they should receive during
which they live in; could also
snack time.
create discussion between
Paper Plate Tennis Rackets
Book: Whos Hungry? By: Keith
children
Class: ECD 135
Faulkner
Im a Little Fishy Chart
Purpose: Allows children to use
Class: None
Class: ECD 131
gross motor muscles to strike the
Purpose: This book can be read
Purpose: Gives children
balls back and forth. Integrates
to children while eating their opportunities to visualize written math by using a pattern such as
lunch or snack. Children will
text and sing along to a familiar
back and forth.
explore the different foods that
tune.
30 Minute Movement Plans
each animal eats.
Assorted Writing Surfaces
Class: ECD 237 & 135
Class: ECD 131
Purpose: Promotes physical
Purpose: Allows children to write development through various
on different surfaces.
work outs.
Assorted Writing Utensils
Exercise Cards
Class: ECD 131
Class: ECD 135
Purpose: Allows children to use
Purpose: To promote physical
fine motor skills with different
development through various
writing utensils; some larger, work out methods. Gives children
some smaller
a visualization of the work out
Alphabet Card
with the written text.
Class: ECD 131
Purpose: Shows children the
correct way to form both upper
and lower case letters
Word Cards
Class: None
Purpose: Enhances childrens
vocabulary skills and also has
pictures which matches the
words which can promote a print
awareness
Journals
Class: None
Purpose: Children will use
journals to document what
theyve learned while exploring
in the science center. Promotes
childrens literacy skills through
words and drawings of their

representations.
Fish Bit My Finger Chart
Class: ECD 237
Purpose: To promote literacy
development by introducing new
vocabulary words. Could also be
used musically.
Book: Stand Tall Molly Lou Melon
By: Patty Lovell
Class: None
Purpose: Illustrations are very
descriptive. This could give
children opportunities to write
about what it going on within the
pictures.
Book: What I Like About Me By:
Allia Zobel-Nolan
Class: None
Purpose: This book introduces
diversity within the classroom. To
jump off of reading this book
children can write about what
makes them unique.
Book: The ABC Bags By: Margaret
Allen
Class: None
Purpose: This book shows
children how to properly form
letters. Concept book that has a
different word that goes with the
letter on each page. Could help
children with sounds.
Book: The Stray Dog By: Marc
Simont
Class: None
Purpose: To give children
something to write about while
reading and looking at
illustrations

To Do:
Laminate materials that are needed
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Create more charts to put in centers

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