Learning Center Ideas Use these center activities to continue children’s exploration of sounds in our community.
Dramatic Play Center Community Workers Place clothing and props that relate to community workers in your dramatic play center. Firefighters, ambulance workers, and builders are a few “noisy” professions to focus on. Invite children to use the trucks, tools, and costumes, and make sounds as they do their jobs. Extension idea: Place pictures of community workers and their tools and vehicles in a pile. Invite children to pick a card and make a sound
Writing Center Onomatopoeia Pictures Provide photos of noisy objects and
situations. Encourage children to choose a photo and tape or glue it to a piece of paper. Then they can write the sounds they think go with the pictures. You may want to post a few examples in the writing center (e.g., vroom! with a photo of a race car, splash! with a photo of a person landing in water, moo! with a photo of a cow). Once all children have had a chance to make an onomatopoeia picture, display
them on a classroom wall for all to enjoy. Consider taking a photo of the display to share with families.
associated with it. Other children can guess which community worker is making the sound.
Block Center All Around the Block
Classroom Library Extend the theme by adding related books and media to your classroom library. • Click, Clack, Moo, Cows that Type by Doreen Cronin • Bark, George by Jules Feiffer • Noisy Nora by Rosemary Wells (Weston Woods Book with Audio) • Rin, Rin, Rin/Do Re, Mi (bilingual) by José-Luis Orozco • Knuffle Bunny by Mo Willems (bilingual Weston Woods Video)
Cut or print pictures of community workers and the tools they use and attach the pictures to blocks in the block center. Encourage children to build a neighborhood in the block center, complete with the people who help in the neighborhood. As they play, prompt them to use dialogue and sound effects they might hear in the neighborhood. (For example, “ Knock knock . I am here to deliver the mail.” or “ Beep beep . We’re taking a sick person to the hospital.”)
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