January Centers
Week | Theme Centers | Shared Reading Centers | Work Tasks |
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New Years Writing: New Year's Resolutions--Children write plans for the new year on this hat shaped paper. They can then color it, cut it out and attach a pompom to the top. Art:
Math: Missing Numbers Calendar--Children cut and glue the numbers to complete the calendar. The easier version has all numbers filled in; children simply need to match the numbers. |
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Art: Print calendar pages for the current year. Have students color and sequence the pages. This site has some cute printable calendars: |
2 | Winter Art: Coffee Filter snowflakes--Have students fold the filters into fourths or eighths (depending on student skill level). Have students cut triangle shapes out of edges. Open filters and have children apply glitter. ABC:
Math:
Writing: Winter Fun Book |
Winter's Gift (provided by Baltimore County Public Schools) |
Art: Craft Stick snowflake--students glue
3 craft sticks together to form an asterisk shape. Then they paint glue
on the sticks and cover with fake snow or glitter ABC: Winter Word Building--Fill a pan with fake snow (or use the sensory table). Hide magnetic letters or letter tiles in the snow. Students find letters and use them to spell the winter words. Math: Symmetrical Snowflakes--Students sort the snowflakes to show if the red line is a line of symmetry. Science: Snowflake Memory--Students turn the cards upside down and take turns turning over 2 cards to make matches. |
3 | Winter-Animals Math: Snowman Adding ABC:
Snowmen--match words and pictures or letters and pictures Writing:
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Bear Facts (provided by Baltimore County Public Schools) |
ABC: Beginning and Ending Sound work mats
Math: Teddy Bear Activities (patterning, sorting, adding--see Math Center Activities) Science: Animal Babies Memory (see Science Center Activities) Science: Animal Tracks Matching--Print both pages and cut the cards apart. |
Technology Integration Lesson from Baltimore
County Public Schools: Students will sequence the events from the story. (Brown Bear) Lesson Plan and Materials (search for K and then scroll down)
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4 | Winter-The
Mitten Writing:
Art:
ABC:
Mitten Match--I provide two versions of this for students at different levels. For both, you will need a length of string to tie to table legs to create a clothesline. Version 1: Students match the uppercase letters on the clothespins to the lowercase letters on the mittens and hang on the clothesline in ABC order. Version 2: Students match the CVC words on the clothespins to pictures on the mittens and hang on the clothesline. Math:
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The Mitten (provided by Baltimore County Public Schools)
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Writing: Mitten
Letter Sequence--Students write the lowercase letters in order ABC: Mitten Match file folder game from Preschool Printables (print one set of colored mittens and one set of black and white mittens with the color words to make a color word game). Math: Mitten Pattern Book--This booklet will print 2 per page. Students color the mittens in the given pattern and then complete the sentences describing their patterns.
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Technology Integration Lesson from Baltimore
County Public Schools: Students will fill in the missing vocabulary word to complete the sentence on each slide of the PowerPoint presentation. Lesson Plan and Materials (search for K and then scroll down)
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5 | Winter Art:
Writing:
My Winter Clothes Flap Book--Copy both sheets of clothing and 2 lined papers for each child. Place one sheet of lined paper under each clothing sheet and staple both to a 12x18 sheet so that an entire picture is visible. Cut along the lines so that each piece of clothing is separate. Children lift the flaps and write about their own winter clothing and color the pictures to match. plain lined papers (more advanced writers) Cloze sentences (beginning writers) ABC:
Math:
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The Jacket
I Wear in the Snow (provided by Baltimore County Public Schools)
Additional Ideas at The Toddler House Daycare
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ABC: ABC Order Race--Using magnetic letters or letter tiles, students race against a timer to put the letters in order. I use sand timers. Math: Snowball Counting (see Math Center Activities) Science: Season Sort (see science center activities) ABC/Writing: Winter Clothes Beginning Sounds--Students use letter tiles or letter stamps to show the beginning sounds
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Technology Integration Lesson from Baltimore
County Public Schools: Students will fill in the missing vocabulary word to complete the sentence on each slide of the PowerPoint presentation. Lesson Plan and Materials (search for K and then scroll down)
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