Jump into January with these seasonal learning centers. Children will practice a variety of language arts skills with a word search, contraction and synonym/antonym games, and story starters, and more. Also included are winter recipes that can be made as a class, brought in as treats, used to practice understanding procedural texts, or sent home with each child.
This resource is ideal for establishing learning centers in your classroom. It provides all the directions and patterns necessary to set up 10 learning centers for January. These activities keep children actively involved in independent learning.
Everything you need to get started with learning centers: background, management tips, sample schedules, suggested topics, creative activities, and much more. With photos and classroom samples. For use with Grades K-4.
This book is designed to show you how to make file folder activities. It can be fun while serving as creative tools to enhance the early childhood curriculum.
Stretch children's minds and imaginations - and help them meet the standards - with dozens and dozens of fresh activities for your classroom learning centers. each of the five sections of this treasury is devoted to a different learning center - literacy, math, dramatic play, blocks, and art. Within each section, you'll find delightful ideas and projects that integrate math, literacy, science, and more. These flexible, cross-curricular activities are designed to engage children, foster independent learning, and develop essential skills. Create learning center magig in your classroom each and every day!--
Public Community Learning Centers (CLCs), at least in the context of the United States, are social structures that have been established to address particular community needs. In the beginning, they were instituted as extensions of state departments human services in order to assist communities with programs such as adult literacy and high school graduation certification. Today, they have taken on a broader role as a result of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (Title X, Part I) that gives rural and inner-city public schools nearly $2 billion over five years (1999-2004) to develop CLCs for programs such as mentoring in basic skills or helping high school students prepare for college. Despite these noble efforts, public CLCs are still not integral parts of community sustainability. One could argue that a major cause for this is that they are established mainly for political purposes. However, the problem is much deeper. Public CLCs today are unable to serve as sustainable social structures because they lack several foundational principles that assist communities with creating and maintaining sustainability. In short, they do not adequately reflect the values, beliefs, and knowledge of the current community education movement. Thus, an alternative framework within which communities can develop CLCs is needed. Using a systemic design approach toward the design of a community learning system, an alternative framework for CLCs is designed that enables communities to create the conditions whereby they can become self-reliant, self-governing, and sustainable.
