Circle Time Activities, Grades PreK-K - Teacher Reproducibles, E-book

There is something almost magical about a circle of children. When a group is seated in a circle, there is a wonderful feeling of inclusion. Circle time activities help create feelings of togetherness and build a spirit of cooperation.

Circle Time Activities gives you more than 75 motivating activities to teach concepts and skills within the structure of circle time.

This book contains:

• step-by-step illustrated directions
• all the patterns you need

Activity topics and sample activities include:

• classroom calendar (including three pages of reproducible cut-outs)
• weather and seasonal (including five pages of patterns for a "weather bear" with clothing)
• circle time math (sorting, patterning, graphing, shapes)
• oral language (finger plays, rhyming, position words—five pages of patterns)
• phonics games & activities (seven games for active learning),
• thinking activities (eight learning games, including categories and analogies)
• social & emotional development (six activities that help develop a feeling of belonging and a sense of community)
• music & movement
• more circle games (nine fun activities including "spin a creature" and directed drawing)
• There are fun, instructive illustrations throughout.