Learning Center Ideas Use these activities to continue children’s independent learning about animal rhymes and patterns.
Dramatic Play Center On the Farm Create a new “farm” environment for your children by providing photos of barns and animals, plastic or plush animals, dress-up clothes (flannel shirts, overalls), and so on. Create a recording of “Old MacDonald” and make it available for children to listen.
Science Center Wolf Tracks
Create paw stamps by cutting potatoes into wolf (or dog) paw prints, one left print and one right print. Children can dip the stamps into finger paint and alternate right and left paw prints to create a pattern as if a wolf was walking across the paper.
Extension idea: Help children make barns by painting empty boxes red and cutting out barn doors that open and close. Place the barns in the Dramatic Play center for children to use.
Art Center Birds on a Branch
Classroom Library Extend the theme by adding related books and media to your classroom library. • Each Peach, Pear, Plum by Janet and Allan Ahlberg • This Is the House That Jack Built by Simms Taback (Weston Woods Book with Audio) • Five Creatures by Emily Jenkins (Weston Woods Book with Audio) • Margaret and Margarita (bilingual) by Lynn Reiser • Is Your Mama A Llama? by Deborah Guarino (Bilingual Weston Woods Video)
Invite children to make patterns by placing birds on a branch. Provide materials such as sticks, leaves, and pine needles for children to create their “tree branch,” using glue to secure the materials to a piece of cardboard. Also provide multiple copies of small bird pictures (two or three types of birds). Display several examples to show AB and ABC birds on a branch patterns.
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