Activities for children, kindergarten 1 which is around 4 years old?

Question

i have to set up a learning corner for my class, which is 4years old. the theme is classroom and home. my corners are language&literacy and numeracy.

i cant think of much! SOMEONE HEEEEEEEELp

Answer 1

In your language and literacy corner add books that relate to school or going to school that is age appropritate. Design the center to look like a mini version of a classic classroom. You could purchase a small chal board, dry erase board, etc. add papers, writing tools, and activities you do in your class for the children to play explore with their peers. You can find a lot of useful tips and info at the website below. Good luck.

Answer 2

Have a writing center, Put some paper, pens, pencils and envelopes. Have letters and numbers on the wall at this center. Encourage the children to draw and write letters and numbers to friends and parents. You could add stickers for stamps and even an old mailbox to put the letters in.

Answer 3

If possible have children bring in pics of their family or draw a family pic and graph under how many is in the family.  To add a literacy component, help them write the name of the family members.  (You can also cut out pics of families from magazines).

On the same note, (this was a Mailbox Magazine idea), stape two pieces of paper together and have a rectangle cut out of the center of the top paper.  They draw a picture of themselves on the bottom paper so that it shows through the rectangle.  The verse that is on the top paper is

I drew a picture.

A picture of me. (this is on the top of the paper above the rectangle.)

But then I thought

I might be lonely, you see.  (This is on the top of the paper below the rectangle.

On the inside you write... I added all the members of my family.

You could create a home/family concentration theme.  You add literacy by writing the words under the picture.  

Rock Families:  have the children collect rocks and paint them.  The they can create their own families during free choice.  Definately a great language experience as we encourage them to do some story telling.

Create Family Collages:  Have the children go through magazines and find people to create a family.  Do dictation with it for your language/literacy part.  Include the number of people to create that family.  You can also help them do something similar with a home...have them create a bedroom or a livingroom by adding pics from a magazine to create each room.  It's neat to have this done as a small group and each child do a different room in a house.  Then put it all together for a houseplan.  Have them dictate and/or for those capable, lable the rooms and pieces.

www.childcareland.com has free printables and I believe she has the All About Me set still there.  The children create a booklet with a picture of themselves... a page with their birthdate (and they put the number of candles on it), it goes through the basic concepts of what they know, so this incorporates numeracy, literacy in many ways.

If you have a flannel board you can make pics of things in the classroom or at home and they can make their own "maps/representations".

If you have "block families" (people used for block play...I purchased mine from discount school supply) then you can mix the familes together and sort by characteristics.  You can also incorporate patterining, counting, simple addition/subtraction etc.

I often incorporate seriation with my "numeracy" activities.  You could create simple cards of pictures of activities done in the classroom and or at home.  For example, at home... a picture of them waking up, eating breakfast, brushing teeth, and riding the bus.  Use your imagination.

F is for Family... have a block cut out of the letter F and have the children glue on pics from magazines that remind them of their family.  H is for Home... C is for Class etc.

Having pretend food and place settings available relate to both the classroom and at home.  Encourage the children to set the table.  Have placemats with words written on the shapes... a circle for the plate with the word plate in it.  Etc.  Encourage the children to decide how many spoons will be needed and etc to incorporate numeracy.  The silverware can be sorted out for a math activity as well.  Oral language is so important...so have them also discuss the differences between eating at home and eating at school.

Good luck!

Answer 4

Graphing the number of people in his/her family

Using nonstandard measurements to measure common school items (paperclips to measure pencils)

Sorting letters in his/her name vs. letters not in his/her name

Have cards with sight words or theme words on them and clothes pin with the corresponding letters in all words.  Have the student match the letters together to build words.