Activity ideas for daycare center...?

Question

1) Please list an activity AND age for each of the following:

a. Fine (small) motor skills development activity
b. Gross (large) motor skills development activity
c. Reading development activity
d. Math activity
e. Science activity
f. Language development activity
g. Music activity
h. Creative art activity


2) Please list four or five ideas you might use during center time in a preschool room.

Answer 1

a. Fine (small) motor skills development activity (learning how to use a fork and spoon)

b. Gross (large) motor skills development activity (learning how to make cookies)

c. Reading development activity (Ages: 4 to 6)

d. Math activity (measurements that you need with baking)

e. Science activity (grow kidney bean sprouts)

f. Language development activity (learning a foreign language)

g. Music activity (listening to sounds of the orchestra)

h. Creative art activity (making holiday crafts)





2) Please list four or five ideas you might use during center time in a preschool room.

-Encourage students to share

-Hygiene

-Go over fire drills

-No tattling

-Learning good manners.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

I'm not doing your homework - best to find out lessons on your own. Here is a great site with NAEYC-approved lessons:

http://www.teacherquicksource.com/?domainredirect=true&

Click on the Head Start or the Preschool Activity links for great lessons based on age and subject

Answer 4

Sounds like you have some research to do. Best you learn to come up with these ideas on your own.

Check : http://www.preschoollearningonline.com/ and http://www.finemotorskills.org for some great educational ideas for teaching preschoolers.



There are many other websites as well..

Answer 5

Try these flashcards for reading and mathematics. The age range runs from 5 or 6 to about 10.



http://xoax.net/children/ref/flash_cards/

Answer 6

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Answer 7

1) Please list an activity AND age for each of the following:



a. Fine (small) motor skills development activity

-Beading/Lacing (Preschool)

-Nuts and bolts putting them together (Preschool)

-Eye Droppers with vinegar onto baking soda (Preschool)

-Cute slits in cardboard just enough for items to slide through for children to place those objects through (Toddler)

-Eye Droppers with food dye mixing colors (Preschool)



b. Gross (large) motor skills development activity

-Freeze Dance (Preschool)

-Yoga (Preschool)

-Bean Bag Toss (Toddler to Preschool)

-Red Light/Green Light (Preschool)

-Throw a ball through a hula hoop (Toddler to Preschool)

-Hopscotch (Preschool)

-Ants go Marching (March in a Circle) (Toddler-Preschool)

-Parachute Games (Preschool)

-"Bowling"(Toddler/Preschool)

-What Time is it Mr. Wolf (Preschool)

-Obstacle course (Toddler/Preschool can be adapted)

-Catching bubbles (Knees, elbow etc.) (Toddler/Preschool)



c.Reading development activity

-Make one dice with an animals and one with an emotion, use words, have the children role the dice ex. "Happy Bear or Sad Cow" (Toddler/Preschool)

-Story Sequencing with picture on a paint stir stick (Older Toddler/Preschool)

-Glue Velcro on the back of pictures so you can place them on the fingers of gloves, use them for a counting book (Infant to Preschool)



d. Math activity

-Muffin tin sorting (Preschool)

-Happy and Sad Faces Sorting (Toddler/Preschool...others emotions can be added)

-Matching keys and locks (Preschool)

-Matching lids and bottles (Toddler/Preschool)

-Sorting animals ex. walk, fly or swim (Toddler/Preschool)

-Matching nuts and bolts (Preschool)



e. Science activity

-Vinegar and Baking Soda (Toddler/Preschool)

-"Does it Dissolve" (Toddler Preschool)

-Is it magnetic (Put plastic and metal on a tray) test with a magnet (Toddler/Preschool)



f. Language development activity

-"Letter Monster, Letter Monster, Munch, Munch, Munch, What Letter did you Eat for Lunch?" (Missing letter or clue towards letter) (Preschool)

-"Crocodile, Crocodile, Down by the Lake, I'm Going to Reach in and See what Letters you Ate" (Decorate a tin or container with a crocodile head) (Preschool)

-Sing BINGO



g. Music activity

Shake your Sillies out with Shakers (Toddler/Preschooler)

Calm and stormy (Softer/Louder) with instruments (Toddler/Preschool)

Row, Row, Row you Boat using a parachute (Preschool)



h. Creative art activity

Texture Collage (Toddler/Preschool)

Make a web or picture with a hot glue gun when dry have the children finger paint over it (Infant-Preschool)

String Painting (Preschool)

Salt Dough (Toddler/Preschool)

Salad Spinner Painting (Toddler/Preschool)

Cut out a pig and dip a golf ball in brown paint roll around "Mud" (Preschool)

Drawing on Sand Paper with Crayons (Preschool)





2) Please list four or five ideas you might use during center time in a preschool room.



Nature Items with a Magnify Glass

Play-dough

A tray with magnetic and non magnetic items with a magnetic wand for sorting

Colored buttons to sort in muffin tins with labeled colors

Lacing

Answer 8

Do your own assignment.