Centers in kindergarten are very important so that your child can experience a myriad of activities. Many include academics that they do not even realize they are taking part in.
Science: Here, your child will be learning and testing new concepts, increasing language development, learning to plan and discover, observing, predicting, comparing, drawing conclusions, experiencing sensory activities, and discovering how things work.
Writing: Here, your child will be using fine motor skills, increasing language development, learning eye-hand coordination, putting thoughts into words, and learning that print has meaning.
Puzzle Center: Here, your child will be exercising their small motor muscles, advancing eye-hand coordination, focusing on spatial concepts, developing language skills, and enhancing cognitive development.
Math Center: Here, your child will be learning new ideas, increasing language and cognitive skills, enhancing eye-hand coordination, exercising their fine motor muscles, learning to estimate, classifying and sorting, counting and comparing, and recognizing patterns and shapes.
Library Center: Here, your child will be learning pre-reading skills, developing language skills, sequencing events, recognizing that letters have meaning, learning to take care of books, experiencing quiet moments, learning to create their own stories, gathering information, and using their imagination.
Listening Center: Here, your child will be enhancing pre-reading skills, developing language skills, recognizing that letters have a meaning, learning to take care of books, learning to follow directions, working independently, gathering information, connecting stories to their pictures, and developing a love for books.
Computer Center: Here, your child will be learning mouse control, enhancing fine motor skills, learning computer functions, enhancing pre-writing skills, advancing pre-writing skills, covering math and language concepts, and using the computer as a learning tool.
Imaginative Play Center: (Kitchen, Puppet Show) Here, your child will be learning cooperation, using language skills, verbalizing ideas and concepts, understanding emotions, communicating with others, observing others, using fine and gross motor muscles, understanding feelings of others, and acting out real life situations.
Art Center: Here, your child will be expanding their creativity, increasing language development, learning cooperation and sharing, enhancing eye-hand coordination, exercising fine motor skills, showing how we view things, and bringing ideas to life.
Block Center: Here, your child will be using fine and gross motor muscles, classifying by shape, size, and color, experimenting with balance and forms, using their imagination, testing ideas, recognizing quantity and number concepts, and discovering modes of transportation.
Science: Here, your child will be learning and testing new concepts, increasing language development, learning to plan and discover, observing, predicting, comparing, drawing conclusions, experiencing sensory activities, and discovering how things work.
Writing: Here, your child will be using fine motor skills, increasing language development, learning eye-hand coordination, putting thoughts into words, and learning that print has meaning.
Puzzle Center: Here, your child will be exercising their small motor muscles, advancing eye-hand coordination, focusing on spatial concepts, developing language skills, and enhancing cognitive development.
Math Center: Here, your child will be learning new ideas, increasing language and cognitive skills, enhancing eye-hand coordination, exercising their fine motor muscles, learning to estimate, classifying and sorting, counting and comparing, and recognizing patterns and shapes.
Library Center: Here, your child will be learning pre-reading skills, developing language skills, sequencing events, recognizing that letters have meaning, learning to take care of books, experiencing quiet moments, learning to create their own stories, gathering information, and using their imagination.
Listening Center: Here, your child will be enhancing pre-reading skills, developing language skills, recognizing that letters have a meaning, learning to take care of books, learning to follow directions, working independently, gathering information, connecting stories to their pictures, and developing a love for books.
Computer Center: Here, your child will be learning mouse control, enhancing fine motor skills, learning computer functions, enhancing pre-writing skills, advancing pre-writing skills, covering math and language concepts, and using the computer as a learning tool.
Imaginative Play Center: (Kitchen, Puppet Show) Here, your child will be learning cooperation, using language skills, verbalizing ideas and concepts, understanding emotions, communicating with others, observing others, using fine and gross motor muscles, understanding feelings of others, and acting out real life situations.
Art Center: Here, your child will be expanding their creativity, increasing language development, learning cooperation and sharing, enhancing eye-hand coordination, exercising fine motor skills, showing how we view things, and bringing ideas to life.
Block Center: Here, your child will be using fine and gross motor muscles, classifying by shape, size, and color, experimenting with balance and forms, using their imagination, testing ideas, recognizing quantity and number concepts, and discovering modes of transportation.