How to set up the blocks center in your early childhood classroom (with ideas, tips, and book list) plus block center freebies!
Blocks center set up ideas for your preschool or pre-k classroom. How to set up and organize your blocks center for success.
How to set up the blocks center in your early childhood classroom (with ideas, tips, and book list) plus block center freebies!
Create a book of structures for the block center, whether in kindergarten, preschool, or at home. Perfect for exploring STEM concepts and inspiring children as they create and build in the block center. Includes a link to a free printable.
How to set up the blocks center in your early childhood classroom (with ideas, tips, and book list) plus block center freebies!
I Can Build books and anchor charts are a fun way to get students thinking of all the things they can build and engineer! It is an easy and manageable way to add STEM to your classroom with real photographs! Blocks and manipulatives give students the opportunity to be creative, problem-solve, develop math concepts, develop eye-hand coordination, develop fine motor (if the blocks are small), and develop inquiry skills (STEM & STEAM). Add a literacy component and have students draw and write about what they plan to build on blueprint paper or sketch pages. This product is included in my STEM I Can Build Bundle! Save over 20% and buy the bundle! Included: (Now included is one set with real photographs and one set with clip art.) • 26 full-page I Can pages and I Can Build cover • 26 small I Can cards (9 to a page) • Two I Can Build anchor chart headers • Blue Print pages (4 options) with Blue Print book cover (color and blackline) • Sketch pages (4 options) with Sketch book cover (color and blackline) • STEM & STEAM Challenge headers (color and blackline) • 4 teacher pages with real classroom photographs Ideas to Try: (classroom photos of each are included) • Full Page Book: Print the full-size pages, laminate for durability, and combine with a book ring. Place in the blocks center, library, or with building supplies/bins. • Mini Book: Print the small cards, laminate for durability, and combine with a book ring. Place in or with various building supplies/bins. Great to use with early finishers, in any manipulative tub, math centers, science centers, and for indoor recess! • I Can Build Anchor Chart: Have a discussion with students and add each item to the chart. • I Can Build Display: Print the pages and hand on your wall to inspire your builders and engineers! • STEM Drawers: Don’t have room for a STEM center in your classroom. Create STEM drawers easily in your classroom. • Weekly or Daily STEM Challenges: Easily create weekly or daily STEM challenges for your students. Teacher information pages, blueprints, sketch pages, STEM/STEAM Challenge Headers are the same in all STEM I Can Build products. Go check out more STEM I Can Build! ➽ STEM I Can Build Cards, Books, and Anchor Charts (starter set) ➽ STEM I Can Build Cards, Books, and Anchor Charts BUNDLE ➽ STEM I Can Build Cards, Books, and Anchor Charts ➽ STEM I Can Build - Winter, Arctic, Christmas, and Valentine's Day Edition ➽ STEM I Can Build - Transportation Edition (Cars, Trucks, Planes, Construction, B ➽ STEM I Can Build - Summer, Beach, Camping, & America Edition ➽ STEM I Can Build - Spring, St. Patrick's Day, Earth Day, & Easter Edition ➽ STEM I Can Build - Nursery Rhyme Edition ➽ STEM I Can Build - Landforms and Habitats Edition ➽ STEM I Can Build - Fall, Farm, School, Halloween, and Thanksgiving Edition ➽ STEM I Can Build - Fairy Tales Edition Click the ★green star★ at the top of my store to follow me to receive 50% off all new products for the first 24 hours a new product is posted! Visit my store Pocket of Preschool Let’s Connect! → My Website → Facebook → Pinterest → Instagram → Newsletter Sign up for my newsletter and you will receive a HUGE family theme writing center filled with word cards, writing paper, write the room, a teacher page with tons of ideas on how to use it the classroom, and real photos of it in action in a classroom for FREE! Terms of Use Pocket of Preschool™️. By purchasing and/or downloading this electronic file, you agree to the following terms. For personal use/single classroom use only. No part of this document may be distributed, posted on the internet, copied, edited, or resold. ALL contents of this document are under copyright protection including all content, text, fonts, and graphics, Thank you for respecting my hard word as well as the hard work of the artists whose work helped create this product.
Blocks center set up ideas for your preschool or pre-k classroom. How to set up and organize your blocks center for success.
My preschoolers have always loved playing with blocks! My 5 year old still plays with her blocks during quiet time a few days a week.We love blocks. There are so many creative and imaginative ways you can play with blocks. Just recently I have seen some really cool printables that can turn block free time play into a real learning experience! A lot of these ideas come from preschools, where teachers have block stations set up, but there is no way you can't do this in your own home!
Daycare or Preschool Block Center Signs Construction Themed Block Signs create a fun aesthetic for your block center. Hang on the wall or bulletin board, these cute daycare center signs are fun and get kids excited to build! For more Daycare printables check out my Etsy shop! This Kit Includes Printable PDF file, quickly print from your home computer. For best result laminate for longer use.
Blocks center set up ideas for your preschool or pre-k classroom. How to set up and organize your blocks center for success.
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This beautiful building block play set, consists of basic and familiar shapes that allow for endless designs and constructions. As with all of the building block sets in our Kubi Dubi collection, imagination is the only limit! Building blocks in general, are an excellent educational tool for children and their development. They encourage them to create while continually learning important skills along the way. Through the exploration of cause and effect and constant experimentation, children develop their problem-solving skills, test hypotheses and practice scientific reasoning. Wooden blocks help them to familiarise them with the concept of balance, weight, spatial awareness and gravity. Each set comes with 100 wooden blocks in their own wooden box for easy storage. Measurements: L: 16.5CM W: 17.5CM H: 9CM Weight: 1.4kg Material: Linden Wood Age Guide: 3 years+
How to set up the blocks center in your early childhood classroom (with ideas, tips, and book list) plus block center freebies!
Create a book of structures for the block center, whether in kindergarten, preschool, or at home. Perfect for exploring STEM concepts and inspiring children as they create and build in the block center. Includes a link to a free printable.
Daycare or Preschool Block Center Signs Construction Themed Block Signs create a fun aesthetic for your block center. Hang on the wall or bulletin board, these cute daycare center signs are fun and get kids excited to build! For more Daycare printables check out my Etsy shop! This Kit Includes Printable PDF file, quickly print from your home computer. For best result laminate for longer use.
How to set up the blocks center in your early childhood classroom (with ideas, tips, and book list) plus block center freebies!
Create a book of structures for the block center, whether in kindergarten, preschool, or at home. Perfect for exploring STEM concepts and inspiring children as they create and build in the block center. Includes a link to a free printable.
With online shipping for nearly everything, boxes are never in short supply. Why not use box play to add interest and fun to the block area?
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Pre-K books to read. Best Block Center Pre-K and Kindergarten books. A book list to supplement the block center or building with blocks for preschool, pre-k, and kindergarten. Books to read aloud related to building, construction, and blocks.
Explore famous world landmarks right from the comfort of your own learning environment. The block center provides many learning opportunities for preschoolers. In this center they are learning essential math skills, using their imagination, scientific reasoning, teamwork, motor skill development and more! Add these posters to your construction space to inspire budding architects! This 17-page digital product includes 2-levels of building mats for the following 7 landmarks: Parthenon Mats Eiffel Tower Mats Stonehenge Mats Taj Mahal Mats Big Ben Mats Sydney Opera House Mats Pisa Tower Mats Also included: Graphics Credit, TOS Easy to assemble-simply print and laminate! Use as small group learning centers, or place them in your blocks center. You might also like: Science and Discovery Preschool Activities Let's Build! Poster Pack for the Block Center
How to set up the blocks center in your early childhood classroom (with ideas, tips, and book list) plus block center freebies!
How to set up the blocks center in your early childhood classroom (with ideas, tips, and book list) plus block center freebies!
Create a book of structures for the block center, whether in kindergarten, preschool, or at home. Perfect for exploring STEM concepts and inspiring children as they create and build in the block center. Includes a link to a free printable.
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Ok, pre-k and kinder teachers: let me ask you a question. Do you have a blocks/building center in your room? Have you done away with it because is seems like too much of a "problem-center"? Do your kiddos not seem to know what to do there? PLEASE don't get rid of your block/building center....and if you already have PLEASE let me show you a couple ideas that will allow you to bring it back! The building/block center has a very important place in any pre-k and kindergarten curriculum. Playing with blocks provides a wonderful opportunity for oral language development, hand/eye coordination, and spacial reasoning among many other benefits. While this is indeed an important center, it can also be problematic. It can be a noisy center in which kids become off-task. Sometimes kids start playing with the blocks, throwing them, etc. Most of that off-task behavior is a result of not knowing/remembering what they can do there. I won't go on and on about modeling and practice, practice, practice - you already know that. I want to offer 2 super simple ideas to help make this center manageable and more enjoyable for you and the kiddos! 1. Here is a little "I Can" booklet you can model how to use with your students. Then, they will be able to refer to the booklet for ideas to keep them on task in this important early childhood center. It basically offers your students ideas to begin their block creations -- not an exhaustive list -- just ideas to get them started in easy to understand pictures. I hope you like this FREEBIE :0) Click HERE to grab! 2. Also, something else I find really helpful with keeping kids engaged and focused during center time is having clear boundaries for them. Most of the time the kids WANT to follow directions.....but they are 5 and 6 and they DO forget. I have found that using "duck tape" boundaries really help them know where their center begins and ends. My kids have learned very well how to stay inside their "zebra stripes". All I have to do is glance at the floor and I have kids checking their feet to make sure they are in their center. It's a great visual! I hope these ideas help! Now, it's your turn! What do you do to help manage your blocks/building center? Let us know below in the comments :0)
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My list of my Favorite Blocks Center Tools and Toys for Preschool and Kindergarten in the classroom or at home.
My daughter has one of the best kindergarten teachers imaginable. She is caring, patient, and so imaginative. Her activities seem to seamlessly flow together, integrating all content areas. In short, she is amazing! One of the activities, that I really loved, was her newest addition to the blocks center. My daughter came home and told me that their "Blocks Center is really rocking the house!" That is high praise coming from my baby. A few days later, I got to go in and see this "rocking" center for myself. It really is amazing. It's so amazing that I decided to put my own spin on it and share it with you! The center has pieces of felt (or foam) for different symbols on a map. All the pieces are hand cut and are just a quick shape in different colors. The center that I made includes: rivers, lakes, roads, houses, bushes, and trees. You can get a free copy of the map key here. Print out the key and cut out felt, then you have all you need to make "Interactive Maps"! Cut out some pictures from a magazine and label them for specific places in the community. Simple and fun! The part I love the most about this activity is that it can include math, writing, science, social studies, and so much more! I wanted to include specific places in my version, so I went through my clip art and whipped up a few. I love how every map will be different and each child's personality can shine through. When I started making our version at home, there were only straight roads. This created a lot of protesting from my kids. Thus, a variety of roads were created. They were right, it does make the maps more interesting and realistic. As we played with the concept, I added task cards. This will allow kids to create maps with a model. It is really great for kids that have a difficult time starting an activity without direction. Sometimes, open ended play seems to overwhelm these children. Adding task cards with directions, allows these children to work from a task. AND task cards give kids practice reading numerals and using one-to-one correspondence. I also made blank task cards, so that partners could create tasks for each other. It's more fun to do a friend's activity, than one provided by the teacher. Why not capitalize on their enthusiasm for "being the teacher"? Adding onto the idea of "being the teacher", I love adding in partner games. Each child can have a turn I love adding a recording sheet to the activity, because it holds each child accountable for their learning and provides a physical record that is sent home to their parents. One thing I so appreciate about my daughter's teacher is that every center has some written or physical component that comes home. I am able to infer from the directions, or completed project, what my daughter is doing that day. I am able to ask her more specific questions about her day, after looking over the work that comes home. It allows me to get more meaningful information about my daughter's learning that day. I love having different recording sheets for the same activity. It can change the whole focus of the activity and it makes it very easy to differentiate. I hope you found some easy ideas to use with your kids. I love that you can just add felt and open up a whole new world... Get your kids excited about maps and the parts of their community with these hands on activities. Make your own, or find mine here. Head over to my blog, Differentiation Station Creations, to find some more activities to add your Blocks Center! Until next time,
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These Bridge Building STEM Activities invite kids to build their own version of world bridges using blocks, LEGO bricks, or any building material of choice. Use them in the preschool block center, maker space, or STEAM bins. Try a free printable sample.
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Blocks center set up ideas for your preschool or pre-k classroom. How to set up and organize your blocks center for success.
Create a book of structures for the block center, whether in kindergarten, preschool, or at home. Perfect for exploring STEM concepts and inspiring children as they create and build in the block center. Includes a link to a free printable.
Engaging castle activities for preschoolers that explore a variety of early learning skills. Includes a free printable for your block center!
These Bridge Building STEM Activities invite kids to build their own version of world bridges using blocks, LEGO bricks, or any building material of choice. Use them in the preschool block center, maker space, or STEAM bins. Try a free printable sample.
Children love playing with blocks and they are highly educational. Here are eight benefits of block play in early childhood.
You know I love my job right? Good. Didn't want you to forget how much I am enjoying my time in the kindergarten room. Can I tell you th...
This beautiful building block play set, consists of basic and familiar shapes that allow for endless designs and constructions. As with all of the building block sets in our Kubi Dubi collection, imagination is the only limit! Building blocks in general, are an excellent educational tool for children and their development. They encourage them to create while continually learning important skills along the way. Through the exploration of cause and effect and constant experimentation, children develop their problem-solving skills, test hypotheses and practice scientific reasoning. Wooden blocks help them to familiarise them with the concept of balance, weight, spatial awareness and gravity. Each set comes with 100 wooden blocks in their own wooden box for easy storage. Measurements: L: 16.5CM W: 17.5CM H: 9CM Weight: 1.4kg Material: Linden Wood Age Guide: 3 years+
