Showing posts with label light table. Show all posts
Showing posts with label light table. Show all posts

Monday, April 6, 2026

Pets Theme




Pets Unit

  Finger puppets






Random pet stuffed animals.
Yes, there is a cow and even a horse! 
I think 4H kids keep them both :)


One lone cookie cutter lol




Farm balance toys from Target






My first pet set

a close-up.




Monday, February 23, 2026

Friendship Centers

     




Two different pots for our stews.$






Sensory Bin
purple and pink liquid watercolors rice
scoops, mini erasers, silicone cupcake liners, see-through hearts




                                        Tic Tac Toe games from Target.





                                   For the block area, items from Target.


Felt pieces for our flannel board
Cupcakes for Pete and the Missing Cupcake



Reading Buddies


Items for the light table



These are old transparencies!
Excess laminating or sheets






Monday, January 19, 2026

Winter Centers

Winter Centers

sn*w and ice magnatiles- not a big hit at all this year, no one used them!
I swapped it out with something in week two.
I think they were from Target.


Play-Doh with cookie cutters and mats.
Here are some play-dough mats $ for them to use:
More HERE $ 


Wooden houses and a truck from Target.


stuffies- mostly from Dollar Tree
We are using these as reading buddies :)


Cubes for a light table.
The box is from Dollar Tree and they are sn*wflakes.


plain white felt sn*wmen at the bottom
decorated sn*wmen 
sn*wmen ornaments from Target.


Paper punches, white crayons, and colored pencils- 
not a big hit either, swapped it out week 2.


Ten frames with sn*wflakes from a past KinderCrate.
I added felt numbers to match.


sn*wmen have magnets on the back for our magnet center.
Number guide from Tara West.
These were our snowmen math magnet game.$



In the white bin
I drew the faces on the cups.
The snowballs were from Target, I think.
The cups just sit in a bin, and the kids toss yarn  pom-poms
into them and call out the number they sank the pom-pom.

Besides our fine motor table, I added these trays.
These are super small trays.
I have a bag for each number.
Yellow tray- random cards- I have zero idea where they came from.
Blue tray- Number Blocks cards from a set. 
Number cards from some people I bought this summer.
(Blog post upcoming)
Red Tray~ textured cards from Target and sandpaper cards from FB Marketplace.
Pink Tray~ From Hands2Mind
video
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Monday, December 15, 2025

Christmas in the Kinderpond

 Christmas Stew


Light Table


Play dough Cards

Grab these HERE.

Building Sets from Target and truck


Here are these. Planning Playtime




Ornament Count FREE



Magnatile Trees and Bells 





Monday, May 19, 2025

Spring Centers

 I share my room, so all of our themed centers go back on these
 shelves, and I cover them with a spare pocket chart lol 

Items for the light table


Flower headbands for math the room.


find it HERE

I bought this and two others at Wal~Mart.




Stew items




I added people :)


Monday, April 28, 2025

Recycling Unit

 We start off with this song, and it gets stuck in your head!

Recycle



Mini erasers with cards





Unifix cubes to measure







Light table



Glass beads and Earth 












Books for the unit

We read this book and made the classbook too!








This was for journals.
We practice our names the "kindergarten way"

We brainstormed shapes of recyclables could be.





I added these things to our sensory bin- 
things for compost and things to recycle.
I put real objects in the table too.
Small metal containers as well as some small plastic ones.
I need to add some paper, plastic, and metal items.
I was thinking of those mini brands things.


The filling is clean, new pet bedding.


During journals we made a paper collage.
I brought out a bunch of different kinds of paper.
The students cut or tore the paper.


We traced recycle in blue, green, and our favorite colors :)
Printable here. 
We also used the word cards from that unit as well.
That's coming in our morning bins post :)


We write our names the "kindergarten way"
The letter of the day was Dd (we write it 4 times because we're four)
We read Compost stew and brainstormed things that would go into our compost.


Our Recycling Science Center