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During "Critical Thinking" Centers the children rotate through 4-5 different centers. They spend 10 minutes at each center. This is a time that we work with small groups doing language, literacy, math, and science activities. In 2 or 3 of the centers the children will be working with one of the teachers. The other centers are "self-directed". One of the self-directed centers each day is snack. The children are learning to set out their napkin and cup, to pour their own water, and to serve their own snack according to a specified serving size. This week a teacher has been helping with the snack center.
Some of the other centers the children have worked at this week are:
a Pete the Cat jigsaw puzzle, pattern blocks, number recognition, memory game, pegs, transportation sorters, and geo-boards. Here is a slide show of critical thinking centers: