Just because children are playing, doesn’t mean they are not learning!!! Here are some center signs for you to post in your classroom to help parents, administrators, and other visitors recognize all the skills that children are developing.
Learning centers are the most natural way to organize a classroom and encourage children to become active learners. Centers encourage children to make choices, explore at their own level, engage in hands-on discovery, solve problems, work with friends, use language, and be creative. Centers are also an effective way to use classroom materials, time, and space. Above all, learning centers capitalize on PLAY, which is the most meaningful and FUN way for children to learn.
*Hands-on activities in centers provide many pathways to the brain and are engaging for young learners.
*Children can work at their own pace and level.
*Executive function skills of task initiation and task completion are nurtured with centers.
*21st Century Skills are enhanced as children cooperate with others, communicate, problem-solve, and think critically.
*Centers give children the opportunity to develop organizational skills and responsibility.
*Centers can provide children with purposeful practice for automaticity.
*Children take it in and take it in and take it in…and then something comes out! With centers we are laying a foundation by giving children a variety of rich experiences.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/12i0cGopnEY28T3hxovLjiZeoOYYVEy0W/view
*Hands-on activities in centers provide many pathways to the brain and are engaging for young learners.
*Children can work at their own pace and level.
*Executive function skills of task initiation and task completion are nurtured with centers.
*21st Century Skills are enhanced as children cooperate with others, communicate, problem-solve, and think critically.
*Centers give children the opportunity to develop organizational skills and responsibility.
*Centers can provide children with purposeful practice for automaticity.
*Children take it in and take it in and take it in…and then something comes out! With centers we are laying a foundation by giving children a variety of rich experiences.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/12i0cGopnEY28T3hxovLjiZeoOYYVEy0W/view
Thanks to Carolyn Kisloski for these fantastic center signs.