Five types of Large-Group Time Activities
Choose activities that have few or no directions
Start with an easy-to-join activity so children can join as they finish up their previous segment of the daily routine.
What is the beginning?
Keep hand motions simple
What is songs, fingerplays, chants and poems?
Introduce the main activity or activities using shared control and active learning.
What is the middle?
Reenact simple stories and nursery rhymes
What is storytelling and reenacting stories and nursery rhymes?
Bring large-group time to an end by collecting props if any were used and then transitioning to the next part of the daily routine.
What is the end?
Give children opportunities to move their bodies and develop coordination skills.
What is movement activities: with or without music or objects?
Play games that have no winners or losers-the fun is playing the game!
What are cooperative games?