Discovery Centers Big Bundle, Center Activities and Setup Guides

If you are looking to setup developmental centers, such as blocks, story, math, writing, STEM, science, or art, in your preschool, kindergarten, or first grade classroom, this resource has everything you need to get started.

It includes a set of 7 setup guides (one for each center) that will walk your through the process of creating each center in your classroom. It also includes a second bundle of activities for each center that can be used throughout the school year.

In This Big Bundle You Will Receive:

⭐Center Setup Guide Bundle: Use these 7 Classroom Setup Guides to help you create 7 developmental centers to organize your classroom and use during choice time, morning bins, or stations with your preschool, kindergarten, or first grade kids.

✅Classroom Setup Guides Include:

• Block Center
• Math Center
• Writing Center
• Story Center
• Makerspace (STEM) Center
• Science Center
• Art Center

Read Room Tour: Play-Based Centers for Kindergarten Choice Time to see these centers in action.

⭐Center Activity Bundle: These center activities are my favorite ways to playfully practice both academic and social skills in my kindergarten classroom, but can also be used in preschool, first grade or homeschool. Use each center as an independent activity in a center, bin, or tub or for morning work, choice time or free play. Each center can easily extend whole and small group lessons and are all great play based alternatives to worksheets.

Each of the center activities listed below comes with a full-color, tented task card with a total of 198 center invitations that you can offer throughout the year.

Also included with many of the center activities:

• kinder-friendly recording sheets
• learning mats
• anchor charts and posters
• center signs and labels

Just add your favorite hands-on materials (i.e. blocks, counters, objects from nature, art materials, etc.) and you are ready to go!

✅Here's what you'll find for each of the 7 centers:

• Block Center: Includes 36 challenges, 12 of each type: material, structural, and habitat challenges.
• Makerspace STEM Center: Includes 36 STEAM challenges, 12 of each type: building, upcycling, and design challenges.
• Art Center: Includes 36 art project ideas, 12 for each season (fall, winter, spring/summer).
• Writing Center: Includes 8 writing center options: Drawing and Labeling, News Writing, Whole Class Journals, Dear Teacher Mini Notes, Thank You Notes and Letters, Journals and Trace and Lace Fine Motor Task.
• Story Center: Includes 10 types of stories for children to retell along with graphic organizers, anchor charts and writing paper.
• Science Center: Includes 4 types of science stations, Creatures Features, Fab Lab Experiments, Cool Collections, and Take-Apart Tub with a total of 60 science center task cards to choose from.
• Math Center: Includes 4 types of math centers, Number Stories, Counting Jars, Number Staircases, and Number Building Mats with a total of 12 center task cards to choose from.

CHECK OUT EACH PREVIEW FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT ALL THE CENTERS

✅How Can I Use These Center Activities?:

Each center was designed to be used independently by children to extend whole and small group lessons while meeting academic standards.

There are many ways to use these centers. You might try:

• Morning Bins
• Learning Centers
• Tub Time
• Learning Labs
• Explore Stations
• Tabletop Tubs
• Discovery Centers
• Choice Time Tubs
• Early Finisher Tasks

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