There is something almost magical about a circle of children. When a group is seated in a circle, there is a wonderful feeling of inclusion. Circle time activities help create feelings of togetherness and build a spirit of cooperation.Circle Time Activities gives you more than 75 motivating activities to teach concepts and skills within the structure of circle time.This book contains: step-by-step illustrated directions all the patterns you need Activity topics and sample activities include: classroom calendar (including three pages of reproducible cut-outs) weather and seasonal (including five pages of patterns for a "weather bear" with clothing) circle time math (sorting, patterning, graphing, shapes) oral language (finger plays, rhyming, position wordsfive pages of patterns) phonics games & activities (seven games for active learning), thinking activities (eight learning games, including categories and analogies) social & emotional development (six activities that help develop a feeling of belonging and a sense of community) music & movement more circle games (nine fun activities including "spin a creature" and directed drawing) There are fun, instructive illustrations throughout.