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The Complete Learning Center Book: An Illustrated Guide to 32 Different Early Childhood Learning Centers
by Christy Isbell (Illustrator: Rebecca Jones) (Photographer: Larry Smith)
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Gryphon House (1995-07-01)
ISBN: 0876591748
EAN: 9780876591741
Dewy Decimal #: 372.21
Paperback: 367 pages
SKU: 00-N5HC-0FGM
Condition: Very Good
Comments: Pages are unmarked. Cover shows some wear. Previous owner's name, inside front cover.
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Editorial Reviews
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Product Description
All you ever needed to know about 32 learning centers is included in this comprehensive book. Clear illustrations provide a layout of each center with suggestions on setting up the classroom environment. Each center includes an introduction, learning objectives, letter to the parents, related vocabulary, and a web of integrated learning diagramming the spectrum of curriculum areas taught.
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Customer Reviews
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I would be fearful if the 3rd reviewer was teaching my child.
Rating  (5)
Date: 2006-01-05
2 out of 4 customers found this reveiw helpful
As I sat reading reviews of the book, and felt a connection to the 2nd reviewer, based on the FACT that young children learn through play and activity, rather than rote seatwork, I was awestruck by the back to basics mentality of the 3rd writer. The "little detail about how to make [the centers] educational" makes me sad in my heart. A restaurant center is educational in and of itself. It provides both math and language development, both of which the reviewer says needs a specific book for. The math is found though the making of change, the prices on menus, the discounts that are sometimes provided, ect. The language comes in with the dialogue that occurs between waiter/ess and customer, when reading the menu, the descriptions of food items, the fact that they are all categorized, ect. The grocery store center has math principles for younger and older children. You could compare prices based on weight, which one saves you money, discounts and coupons, sales, 2 for 1 deals, the transaction that occurs, the handling of money, ect. The language development occurs when needing to read a grocery list, or even the pure knowledge of creating a list when going to the grocery store, reading a map of the store to locate items, reading the coupon, buying ingredients for a recipe, ect. The hat center is extremely valuable to young children. It allows them to learn about the world: the fact that different cultures wear hats, different occupations wear hats, and people wear different hats in different climates. The only thing that I do agree with on this matter with the reviewer, is that yes, these are "complex learning centers".
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The Complete Learning Center Book
Rating (5)
Date: 2005-10-04
1 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
I used this book with my staff when I was a director and now I use it as a supplemental book for an Early Childhood Environments course that I teach. The students love this book becasue it has creative ideas for learning centers. It is a very helpful book for new and experienced educators.
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Learning through Play
Rating (5)
Date: 2005-02-03
5 out of 5 customers found this reveiw helpful
As a licensed group home provider, the learning through play concept was something new to me. I was one who had thought the children HAD to go home with worksheets and step by step crafts to "show" they were learning something. Through my Early Childhood Education Classes I found a new and improved way to "teach"- through play. I had really no idea where to start and so I borrowed books and this book was one I had to have! I am so happy with how they explain everything, including how EDUCATIONAL play is. I was most impressed with the Web of Integrated Learning for each center. These webs are pretty new to me and so far have me wishing I would have known about them earlier. As it states in the book "Play nurtures children's development in all areas: intellectual, social/emotional and physical." If you remember this (PIES as we call it)while looking through this book, you can see just how educational and benefiting learning centers are for our children. No matter the age. I have children from 2 to 8 and they ALL enjoy these learning centers and actually learn from each other through their play.
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Good for pre-k but not anything higher
Rating  (3)
Date: 2001-01-29
28 out of 30 customers found this reveiw helpful
As an elementary teacher, I was looking for some helpful information about implementing learning centers in my classroom. This book provided various themes for complex learning centers, such as "Restaurant Center", "Grocery Store Center", and "Hat Center". Although these ideas were fun, there was little detail about how to make them educational. I believe these learning centers would be good for pre-school or kindergarten, but not anything higher. If you are interested in specific ideas for math activites, or literature-based learning center activities, do not get this book.
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Great Ideas
Rating (5)
Date: 2000-05-11
21 out of 22 customers found this reveiw helpful
Great Resource book for Early Childhood Professionals. This book has lots of great ideas to use in the classroom and they are cheap and easy to implement. Wonderful for Emergent Curriculum and very Language and Literacy Rich. Highly Recommended!
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