Sept/October Morning Bins

Pumpkin Patch Count

I added the dots next to the numerals 

for my students still needing that extra support :) 

Pumpkins

Apples

Spider web from Pocket of Preschool. 

Children cut out their names and glue on the web :)

Trace Letters

Morning Work

 Stacking puzzles from Target

Pumpkin patterns

I used real pumpkin seeds, 

pumpkins and candy corn mini erasers.

End of the month scissor skills. Found HERE.

Halloween Counting Mats

When I use these counting mats 

(which come in a TON of themes!!)

I put dots by the numbers to help

 children who need help. :) 

We are loving the spiders!

It is still early in the year, so I put little dots so they 

can count them to add that many spiders.

October: Week four

 It's a "short" week for us. We are going to the pumpkin farm on Monday, so nothing really in our classroom.  So we are only having three morning bin rotations.

I scored these from Target. Check out that haul HERE.

Spider names from HERE.

End of the month scissor skills. Found HERE.

The rest of our centers are the same.

October Centers Week 4 Halloween

As we come into our last week of October, 

brings Halloween! Regardless if I taught about it or not, 

it is on all of our minds. :)

 

My hope for these is to:

 1) wind these up to work on fine motor

2) see how far these walk....

Snap cube cards

Matching pumpkin upper and lowercase

from Pocket of Preschool.

Spooky House with letters

Bone Letters

Felt ghosts and pumpkins

on our flannel board

we're working on vertical surfaces here

Fill In games:

Kids roll the dot cube and place that number of 

mini erasers down on the game board

Treat bag

I haven't listed the pumpkins or webs yet lol

Play dough mats

V for vampire

counting mats

Egg Cartons and tongs

oh and of course colored eye balls lol

We have a "dungeon" at my school, 

while I was down there, I grabbed this!

The number cards are from Pocket of Preschool. 

Pumpkins on the vine.

Roll a cube and draw on that many pumpkins. 

This is how it gets put away when we're done :) 

Side note... no Halloween Stew... it's what started it all off and why my past students love them... I can't for the life of me, find it!!!! waaaaaaaaaa

So we're doing Fall Stew from Pocket of Preschool.

A bunch of coloring pages and a spider

I have them use black paper for the legs.

We made folded paper for the 8 legs.

Adding the correct number of eyes to the monsters.

I love the cards and wanted to use them, so they became a math center. 

A whole bunch of cutting practice. 

Pumpkin Puff Bake Shop

The kids read the recipe card and add that many poms to the trays.

The trays come from Dollar Tree

Last week, was my son's birthday, so we've been getting boxes sent to our house.

I look carefully, and low and behold,

these were things from my wishlist!!!

*cue tears*

Week 4: October Morning Work

 Morning Work this week:

Spider web from Pocket of Preschool. 

Children cut out their names and glue on the web :)

These mats from Tara West

(my correct colored pom-poms haven't arrived yet lol)

These are from Perfectly Preschool

These are clothes pins clip cards.

I have three different sets.

Halloween Clip Cards

Halloween Counting Mats

When I use these counting mats (which come in a TON of themes!!)

I put dots by the numbers to help children who need help. :) 

I used googly eyes from Dollar Tree

Ghosts from maybe Hobby Lobby (it's been a while since I bought those lol)

Spiders are from my KinderCrate

Halloween Kinderpond Style

Learning Board

Letter H

Color Orange

Shape- Heart

Numeral- 0


Name Practice- Foam blocks

Monday-

Story- Stellaluna

Poem
I only have the three bats... guess who will be singing 3 Little Bats?  Did you guess it was us?? 

  

Art~ Pumpkin Faces

Give orange play dough.

Grab these at Dollar Tree and have fun!

Math/Life Skills/Science  

 Pumpkin and Skull Ten Frames, I mean, ice cube trays.  Roll number cube, add that many erasers to the frame. Roll a two, add one piece/eraser to one spot and another to another spot.
You could also write numbers on the bottom and play like Yahtzee.
Journal- Halloween Stamps

Just going to let Froglet stamp whatever :)  Free choice.  I grabbed these at Walmart.

Snack- Pumpkin Cinnamon Tortillas

Their recipe calls for frying and whatnot, yeah, I am not all about that.  Cut out face.  Spread melted butter and sprinkle with cinnamon and sugar.  Pop in the oven for 8-10 minutes. I normally do these as whole tortillas using a pizza cutter to make wedges. They are perfect chips! Made them all the time for my Pampered Chef parties!

Tuesday-

Story- Dem Bones

We are totally reading it again this week.  

Fingerplay  

5 Little Pumpkins

Music- Skeleton Dance with shakers

I got the purple/orange/black ones at Dollar Tree.
Tap body parts as you sing the song.

Math/Life Skills/Science- Spider and Pumpkin growing 

They are next to the capsules.  Grabbed everything at the Dollar Spot at Target.

Journal- Draw heart stamp with "O" stamp.

Snack- Sort Bones Cheetos  I only found the individual bags, in past years, I have only seen whole big bags.

Thursday-

Story  Swallowed a Bat

Fingerplay- Move your spider as you sing the song

Music-  Itsy Bitsy Spider

Use one of those spider rings, tie a string to it.  Move it while you sing the song.  Then put it on different places on your head, on your knee, behind your back, ect.

Math/Life Skills/Science
I found these at Walmart. I added the pipe cleaner and number. Froglet will add the correct number of pony beads.

and...

Spiders on spiderwebs I got them at Target.

Roll a number cube put that many spiders on a web.  Roll again.




Journal- Roll number cube.  Stamp that many stamps.

Snack- Spider Oreos

Friday-

Story Halloween Bugs

I couldn't find Halloween Bugs on YouTube, this one popped up, totally awesome!!!

Fingerplays- Spooky Ghosts

Music- Relay using skeleton arms, play Halloween music.  I am going to grab some ball-pit balls and have froglet carry them across the room using the skeleton arms.  Put two buckets on opposite sides of your room. The arms are at the bottom.

Math/Life Skills/Science Sponge Capsules
With older kids, I break up into groups.  I would separate the capsules and we would guess which one we would get.  Side note: use warm water... takes a long long time in cold water lol



Journal- Stamp in letter H.
Use Halloween stamps to stamp in the H.

Snack- Candy Corn Rice Krispies Treats

Shopping List:
Rice Krispies
Marshmallows
Butter
Food Coloring
Oreos
Pretzel Sticks
M&M's
Cheetos Bones
Tortilla Shells flat
Cinnamon
Sugar
Orange Play Dough