Friendship week recap and morning bins

To celebrate 2-22-22 we made matching pairs of foods. I put half the pairs up first and they had to find the matching pair.  Then in journals, we drew 4 matching pairs.

 

I think they did wonderful!!!!!!

On to the morning bins:

following the patterns was super hard for them to accomplish!

I am still working on finding who made this-

this is my example and I have no idea where the original one is and

 there is no name on it waaaaaaa :(

WOOHOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Grab yours HERE!!!!!!!!!!!

Target had a numbers one and an alphabet one...

but I need 3 for morning bins.

I put a container from Dollar Tree filled with different beads.

I used this puzzle from Dollar Tree.

I had to tape it down so it would stay put.

Here is our monthly scissor skills sheet.

They trace the line with the high lighter and then cut.

I sing, they sing, "Don't go cutting my heart"

I found these felt cupcakes at Dollar Tree.

They go perfectly with Pete the Cat.

We made concentric hearts.

I also taught them how to make hearts by making

two circles next to each other and adding a "V"

We read the rock book Love You When and then

we add these rocks to our centers.

Here was our sensory bin.

*Purple and pink rice

*cupcake liners

*measuring spoons

*heart ice cube trays

*see through hearts

*heart erasers

play dough fun

How we used purple/pink gems from Dollar Tree

for finding matching letters.

Morning Bins week 2 and 3

 Week 2 and 3 for morning bins

Draw and label theme words Paper from here$

Last year I used red and purple snap cubes.

This year, I found purple gems at Dollar Tree!!!

Grab them here$.

Patten Blocks sheet from here.$

Trace, trace, (write) and erase here $

I like when things rhyme lol so we leave out the write part lol

We chant "trace, trace, and erase"

Cut out the heart.

Punch the holes.

Write your name.

Grab it here.

Craft sticks 

I wrote the number name, numeral, and dots.

I got the bands from Oriental Trading.

Snap cube mats from here$

Roll and Color here.

Roll the number cube. Color the hearts.

Roll the cube, roll, and color with another color.

Love Friendship and Valentine's! Oh My!

This week is all about friendship and (love) but don't tell the kids lol

We have these cool family counters and homes.

They are from Learning Resources.

People houses

Two different pots for our stews.$

Our playdough tray.

Did I find more for the tray after I took this photo?

Yes of course lol 

found and added lol

Here are playdough cards and games found here.$

I used those small counting cups from Dollar Tree and the kids add beads to the hearts.

Stamps to make patterns.

Calm down toys

Whenever I intro new toys/items for the calm down area, we practice first.

It's in my lesson plans- demo new items. We squeeze with ONE hand.

I have a whole box of "Hall of Shame" items that were wrecked. :(

Tic tac toe games from Target.

These are number and letter sheets.

I used pink/magenta gems from Dollar Tree.

Trace the number /letter and cover the same ones on the side.

For the block area items from Target.

book shelf #1

Book shelf #2

Papers for our writing center from here$.

 

Olympic Kinderpond Style

Two bookshelves this time lol

 

Matching letters to sounds in the pocket chart.*

We are going to write on foil!!!!*

Hide the Torch from here $

I pulled out these yellow Unifix cubes for our gold medals.*

Country Flags* where we lace bronze, silver, and gold beads.

These are gold coffee lids lol

I wrote uppercase on one lid and lowercase on another set.

In first grade, I called these Gold Bar words.

Read more about that here.

*****Grab the printables here $

We got new bingo dot markers so we tried them out!!!

I love making these letter books with all the different mediums!