The webinar will help Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) practitioners, to get an insight into how to make effective learning corners. It also discusses the required material that can be developed or used for these corners.

1. Early Childhood Care and Education
Naureen Faisal
CORNERS
Sargodhians’ Institute for Professional Development
Rashidabad, Tando Allahyer

2. • Learning corner is a physical area (or station) designated for specific learning
purposes.
• It is designed to provide appropriate materials to help students work
independently or collaboratively (with partners or in small groups) to meet
set goals.
• Learning corners can be portable, temporary or permanent.
What is Learning Corner

3. Philosophy of Learning Corners
• Learning Corners is based on the child-centered approach
to teaching young children that draws from Montessori
tradition.(Build concentration, encourage independent,
promote investigation learning style)
• It gives children the freedom to choose what to do.
• Promotes socialization in learning.

4. Why Learning Corners
• Children learn best when they involve in hands-on activities and play.
• Learning corners play vital role in providing an environment that convey a
joy of learning
• Learning corners provide opportunities to children to choose, play,
experiment and explore materials.
• Learning corners allow children to use up excess energy and take risk
without fear of failure

5. Learning Corners
Music and Movement Corner
Art and Craft Corner
Literacy Corner
Drama Corner
Home Corner
Block Corner
Science and Nature Corner
Numeracy Corner
Technology Corner

6. Music and Movement
• Music and movement are the building blocks of any good preschool
education
• Many physical skills can also be developed through the use of music
such as gross motor, fine motor, balance, and bi-lateral coordination.
• Music can also help children develop cognitive skills including counting,
patterning and sequencing, receptive language, phonemic awareness
and many more.
• Music can help young children develop social-emotional skills such as
self-regulation, self-esteem, and turn-taking.

7. Music and Movements Activities
Introduce children to musical instruments and music players, and
talk about how they work.

8. Music and Movements Activities
Provide a variety of music that children can listen to individually.

9. Music and Movements Activities
Give children opportunities to choose music, musical instruments, and
creative movement props

10. Music and Movements Activities
Build in chances for children to make their own rhythm instruments. Do
-It-Yourself

11. Music and Movements Activities
Make puppets available to act out songs or enhance creative movement
activities.

12. Music and Movements Activities
Experiment with audio or video recording children’s musical moments
with a tablet computer, tape recorder, or digital recorder.
Recording…

13. Music and Movements Activities
Music Song Board

14. Required Material
• Stock of good rhymes and poems, songs, jazz etc
• Audio-visual Tools (CDs, DVDs)
• Instrument hand made/commercial (hand bells, guitar, keyboard,
drums, (rhythm sticks)
• Costumes
• Puppets
• Listening area with or without headphones
• Rhymes books
• Open area for movement activities

15. Art and Craft Corner
• Art helps children learn about self-expression and creativity.
• It is a good way for children to develop fine motor skills and
improve their hand-eye coordination.
• It teaches flexibility and boost self esteem
• Encourages children to play and experiment in a fun and relaxed
environment.
• Working with materials teaches them about colours, shapes and
textures. How things work and how they fit together.
• Practice decision making
• Foster emotional Development and Regulation

16. Art and Craft Corner Activities
Drawing and painting

17. Art and Craft Corner Activities
Print making (through finger, thumb, vegetable etc)

18. Art and Craft Corner Activities
Making 3D models for recycling material

19. Art and Craft Corner Activities
Water colour Painting

20. Art and Craft Corner Activities
Clay and playdough model

21. Art and Craft Corner Activities
Collage Art

22. Art and Craft Corner Activities
Nature Art

23. Required Material
• Brushes, crayons, Markers
• Chalk Materials
• Clay, Dough, Modeling Materials
• Collage and craft Materials
• Glue, tape
• Paint and paint materials
• Papers and Scissors

24. Dramatic Play Corner

25. Dramatic Play Corner
• Dramatic play encourages languages development, used to introduce new
concept
• Teaches conflict resolution and relieve emotional stress and empower children.
• Allows children to rehearse or practice new situations or events.
• Children are able to express themselves, be creative, develop their imaginations,
and try out new tools as they play.
• It is a great way to build cooperation and communication between children and
building language arts, math, reading, writing, social skills, fine motor and gross
motor skills.
• Contributes to Personality Development and learn constructive criticism.
• Participate in diverse discourse, co-working and co- planning.

26. Dramatic Play Corner Activities
Re-enactment everyday activities.
Improvisation
Simulation
Role play
Mime
Use song or rhymes props for acting out such as “Twinkle, Twinkle
Little Star” and “The Itsy Bitsy Spider”
Reenacting stories they hear, such as Cinderella
Imaginative/pretend activities based on knowledge children gain
from books, movies, and other sources

27. Required Resources
• Pretend food, animals, tools,
• Puppets and accessories
• Shopping Play
• Kitchenware and cooking play
• Housekeeping Play
• Dress up clothes
• Dolls and Doll play accessories
• Play money
• Used jewelry
• Newspaper
• Coupons, photos
• Low cost and no cost material

28. Literacy Corner
• Literacy Rich environment encourage literacy interest in children at a very young
age.
• Creating a literate environment for children is one of the ways in which we can
build this strong foundation for literacy.
• Provide opportunities to explore and use literacy through their daily routines
and play.
• Refine communication skills during activities when they describe, explain, and
use words/sentence
• Begin to understand the mechanics of written language.
• Enhance understanding and help to overcome reading difficulties
• Build vocabulary skills and strengthen comprehension, increase creativity

29. Early Literacy
Phonemic Awareness
Phonics
Fluency
Vocabulary
Comprehension

30. Literacy Corner Activities
Phonemic Awareness
Alphabet Flash Cards
Letter Puzzle
Letter games (sound matching)
Letter uppercase/ lowercase matching with bottle caps
Beginning/middle/ ending sound Cards
Alphabet Lacing Cards

31. Literacy Corner Activities
Phonics
Magazine Letter hunt
Diagraph/ Blending matching mat
Counting Syllable with mini objects
Colour the letter worksheet

32. Literacy Corner Activities
Fluency
Nursery Rhymes
Short Stories
Big Books
Short paragraphs
Fluency Strips

33. Literacy Corner Activities
Vocabulary
Word games (word family game (rhyme), word search, Unscramble
the words, words within a word)
Seasons Cards
Board Game
Exploring word/opposite, synonyms
Sight words Flash Cards

34. Literacy Corner Activities
Comprehension
Puppets (retell story)
Listening story
Signs and Labels (traffic signs, wrappers of different objects,
Advertisements)
Providing menus, price lists, appointment books, maps, instructions,
leaflets, notebooks and pencils, reference books, charts,
Sentence making challenge

35. Participants’ Expectations
• Preparation of learning corners with available materials at home.
• I hope to have some fruitful discussion & content on Learning
Corners in Early Years of Learning specially for ECE Learners.
• To learn about unique ideas for learning corners
• I have Many expectations from webinar like learning program
regarding education system from ECCE to other classes
• Learning and understanding best from this session.
• Learning something new which help me in my professional life.