December Units

First, let's start with some morning bins:

Scissor Skills

Trace and Erase HERE

Here are some of the books we used in this unit

Christmas Stew

Grab these HERE.

All the cookie cutters and those rollers I guess they 

are supposed to be ornaments 

but they make super cool prints!

Winter bingo 

Wood pieces from Target a few years ago.

Here are these.

Magnet center the two tins are from Target and the loose

ones are from Dollar Tree.

Ornament Count FREE

This felt tree came from Dollar Tree a few years back.

Gingerbread Morning work and Centers

 

Here is what we used for morning bins:

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Here are some of the books we used in this unit:

We love these from HERE.

If you promise not to tell my students,

these are really dog toys lol

Grab these free From the Pond coloring club.

these are all from HERE

I got the painted set from Target a few years back.

Not sure where the unpainted ones came from.

The container came from Dollar.25 Tree.

I think these came from Target too!

Thanksgiving

 We start all of our units with a letter. The kids love opening letters!

These letters get the children excited about the new unit. It introduces new words. These word cards then go into the writing center. 

Same centers this week with the addition of this muffin game.

You could add a number cube. Then roll both the color and number of muffins.

I couldn't find a use for those turkeys until I got this game out.

This was my transition activity.

I use transition activities to space out

our hand washing time.

Sometimes it's verbal.

In this case, I put the cards out on the table upside down.

I called on the children to come and pick up a card.

They flipped the card and put a turkey on the shape that matched.

When I have a "game" that doesn't have as many pieces,

I stop near the end of the "game" and add those used 

pieces back so they can be picked again.

After we play this "game" I put it in centers, so they can play it again!

The following week is short, we are out Thursday and Friday for Thanksgiving.

Our morning bins are: 

*scissor skills

*monthly self-portraits

* name puzzles

Trace with a highlighter for our monthly scissor skills practice:

These name puzzles are from HERE.  We are going to practice spelling our names and then we will glue them to make a name tent for our Thanksgiving feast. This is harder than you think for 4/5-year-olds!

The kids loved putting their names up... but they kept falling down grrrrrrr.

Our monthly family projects

(PS I do have more kids)

We did a directed drawing.

Like step by step. We are still working :)

You can get fancy and add different 

patterns for the feathers.

In one small group, we made these pie slices.

I cut paper plates into quarters. 

I added pumpkin pie spices to the paint. 

We painted the crust brown and the pie orange.

 I punched holes in the pie and the 

tag and attached them with pipe cleaners!!! 

The tag came from @polka.dots.please.

Grab the printable HERE.

This is a fabulous book to read before you

paint the children's hands!

Nutrition Week 2

Here were some of our books:

Donut cards

Cookie Letters

Action shot!

Morning Bins:

These three are HERE.

Tracing cards HERE.

The last one- which took forever lol

from HERE.

During science, we did a food group a day.

We filled out this chart:

Later we drew items in our journals.