Region 6 Early Childhood Learning Center

General Learning Centers

Art Center opportunities for children to work with different media,
such as paint, sponges, chalk, pencils, crayons, scissors, paste, play dough,
clay, etc.
Block Center- blocks become the elements for different types of
learning it improves childrens visual perceptual, hand-eye coordination
and motor skills
Dramatic Play Center- as children act out play themes, they learn to
share ideas, make group decisions, and cooperate with each other it
provides opportunities for children to practice language and literacy
skills, and to enhance cognitive development
Listening Center provides essential experiences that promote
language and literacy development children listen to book language
as stories are read, or follow along with the illustrations or text as
they listen to the story being read, they can listen to music as well.

Math Center has a wide variety of manipulatives where children can

sort, classify, order, count, compare, and graph collections they touch
and move things as they relate a sense of number to the objects.
Reading Center children choose among a wide variety of literary
experiences and discuss stories and information with each other from
their own reading selections they develop literary knowledge and
skills.
Sand and Water Center children can be creative or scientific as
they explore the sand or water and accompanying theme related props
it allows children the opportunities to explore qualities of liquid and
characteristics of a pourable solid, they experiment with cause and
effect, refine problem-solving skills, and explore basic math concepts,
such as volume, measuring and comparing.

Science Center hands-on experience with real objects from nature such
as rocks, fossils, and leaves, they learn to observe and classify, and with
simple experiments children learn how to measure, infer information,
prediction and communication.
Writing Center where children use drawing, scribbling, or developmental
spelling to express themselves several types of paper, variety of writing
utensils, and other items that children can use in the process of creating
books, stories, poems, cards, invitations etc.