Center Time- Week 3

For this week, "Things that Go," we will incorporate communication skills during our center time.

Car Table: Choose a method of transportation to get yourself from one part of the city to the other.

• Communication Goal: Talk about parts of a vehicle and how it travels.  Describe direction (left, right, going toward or away from).  Use sentences to describe objects.

Dramatic Play: Use our imagination to act out different ways of transportation such as bicycle, helicopter, airplane, and car.

• Communication Goal: Interact with peers; increase vocabulary; use sentences to describe role in the play activity. 

Literacy: Numerous books will be provided about transportation.  Clinicians will be available and willing to read and/or assist in stimulating communication.

• Communication Goal: Focus on a story for at least 3-5 minutes; answer questions about stories selected; comment on pictures and story.

Sensory Table: Use construction trucks to dig for objects in the dirt.

• Communication Goal: Use sentences to describe texture and actions, practice taking turns.

Small Manipulatives: Match cards with vocabulary words related to transportation.

• Communication Goal: Recall, turn-taking, following directions.

We will also have various cues available in the classroom:

• Literacy: Various books about travel available for reading.
• Visual Cues: Pictures that go with the lyrics of songs; a train of rhyming words; props and prompts (puppets, motions, vocabulary words, etc.)
• Written Cues: Picture cards with name of common methods of transportation, and picture cards with words for "Sink or Float" science experiment.  There will also be written cues regarding daily schedule, simple directions, and classroom rules.
• Graphic Organizers: We will use multiple diagrams during our lessons including prediction charts in our science experiments and stories, and a graphic organizer to categorize what actions can be completed by different construction trucks.