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Creating a Writing center

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Materials

Several containers

Markers, crayons, writing and coloring pencils, and colored chalk

Stationary, various types of writing tablets and paper, old mail

Sentence strips

Laminate or clear contact paper

Instructions

1. Read Word Bird's Shapes to the children. Discuss the different shapes shown in the book.2. Hold up each of the cookie cutters and ask the children to identify the different shapes.3. Place the sugar cookie dough on a clean, flat surface and roll it out.4. Encourage the children to use the different shaped cookie cutters to cut out different shapes.5. Place the cookie shapes on a cookie sheet and put it in the oven (adult only). Bake the cookies as directed on the package or recipe.6. Allow the cookies to cool. As the children eat the cookies for snack, discuss the shapes that they made.More to doArt: Dip cookie cutters into tempera paint and make print shapes on a piece of paper.Math: Discuss the different shapes found in nature. Take the children on a walk and identify the different shapes they see. For example, round bushes, triangle-shaped trees, square hedges, and any other shapes the children discover.

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