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Art area/writing center/typing center: This area provides children with opportunities to express creativity, observe cause and effect with a variety of mediums, increase small muscle development, eye-hand coordination, discover colors, shapes, sizes and textures, develop aesthetic appreciation and independent work skills. Children may create stories and write letters and numbers. A typewriter is available for children to explore typing, letters and numbers.
Game table: Children improve conceptual development and turn taking skills while playing a variety of board and folder games.
Puzzles, manipulative toy and game area: Children express creativity with open ended materials. They match, sort, sequence, seriate and classify materials by color, shape, size and texture. They improve small muscle development, eye-hand coordination and social skills such as turn taking, sharing materials, cooperating while creating, and joining in play activities.
Library/stories on tape/story retelling props/puppets: Children develop reading readiness skills, build vocabulary and conceptual development, identify roles and relationships people have in stories, listen and participate as a member of a group, and listen to stories being read in a group or individually.
Computer center: Children become familiar with computers and develop concepts with variety of programs appropriate for their deveopmental level.
Science area: Children explore, experiment, hypothesize, question, discover, and develop concepts using real objects.
Math area: Children explore, experiment, count, classify, question, discover, and develop concepts using real objects.
Sand/sensory table/water table: Children develop sensory awareness with materials such as sand, water, beans, rice, flour, dirt, pasta, oatmeal, etc. They explore and distinguish textures by sifting, pouring, comparing, measuring and experimenting with a variety of materials as well as develop math concepts.
Dramatic play area: Children develop creative expression, imagination, role playing skills, problem solving, social interaction skills, small muscle control, eye-hand coordinatin, and work through problems by reenacting real life experiences.
Large wooden building blocks/wooden unit blocks: Children design and create structures with the blocks while developing muscle development, eye-hand coordination, conceptual development of size, number, shape, weight, width, and function of the block, and how to work cooperatively with others.
Workbench: Children experiment and create projects with a variety of materials. They improve small muscle development and eye-hand coordination. Goggles must be worn at all times and an adult must be present.
Musical instrument table: Children experiment with a variety of instruments to discover how they make sounds and what they sound like combined with other instruments.
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For additional information contact:
Karen Veerhusen-Langerud at
veerhuse@grinnell.edu
or (641) 269-3320; 1207 Park Street, Grinnell, IA 50112.
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