February Bins and Centers

 This week in centers and in morning bins:

Hearts from HERE.

Grab these and more here.

Morning Bins 

Centers this week:

Two different pots for our stews.$

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.

Grab these play dough mats here$

For the block area items from Target.

We will build towers with these red cups.

Here is our science center. Printables here.

All About ramps.

Here are the new pencils for our writing center.

Some are regular pencils and some colored pencils.

They both were from WalMart.

PS I added purple tape at the top, 

so I know that they belong 

to the writing center.

Here are some of the "new" pens I am adding.

I take them out each year and then pop them 

back into the theme box for next year.

Those cute little ones are Scentos- like the smelly ones!

In small groups we are working on:

This uses an egg carton.  

I use garage sale dots and add whatever skill 

I want to work on or review.  This week I might 

choose a heart, 15, pink, x's. 

Then either make doubles or add different 

shapes, numbers, or letters. 

Print out, and tape it on top of an egg carton.  

Add items to garage sale dots, and stick them inside the egg carton.  

Add a red/pink: eraser, pony bead, heart, or glass bead.  

Close cover. Shake. Open. 

Read what is on the sticker in the cup 

where the item landed. Close and repeat.

Read more about the Shake-Up games HERE.

Shake Up

These shake-up games would be great for a transition too.

  Valentine's Love 

 Cupid's Arrow

Non-Standard Measuring

Candy Hearts 

Many Hearts

Cupid's Arrow

X's and O's 

February Centers and Morning Work

Here are our morning work bins:

Filled muffin cups with heart beads.

Used a pipe cleaner for the bracelet part :)

I used red, pink, and white bands and craft sticks for 

number practice and fine motor work.

The sticks have numbers written, words and dots on them :)  

Snap cube sheets and pattern blocks are from Pocket of Preschool.

Here are our centers this week.

Play dough tray.

Cookie Cutters- bought on clearance last year lol

red hearts from Dollar Tree

and the things with the red handles in the lower left side, 

were stamps from Target.

Cup stacking

Light table accessories

bought from Dollar tree and Target.

Here are more ideas for the light table.

I have two headbands and some funky glasses for 

Write the Room.

(Wonders where the glasses were? lol

well, they were there for the students to use!)

Tic Tac Toe boards.

From Target.

Side note: do you let them win?

We had a few games of CAT and some games where

they beat me.

One gal, told me where I should put my pieces. ;) 

Roll and fill the ice cube trays :)

Traveling writing center.

Stickers and stamps.

I teach my students to clean the stamps by using 

a baby wipe.

My Pampered Chef tool turn about,

is perfect for our writing center!!

When you need to try to see if all the pens work lol

Rice is in our sensory table.

Cupcake liners and erasers :)

Writing trays from Target.

I take out the lacing toys and use them elsewhere.

Heart pointer is from Target too lol

The red sand is from Dollar Tree.

Grab your sets here:

Letters

Numbers

My student looks for this letter each and every time....

can you guess what his name starts with? :)

Kinderpond Celebrates Mo Willems

Name Practice-         These are free!

I know that I have listed different Mo Willems books, but just read whatever ones you have I will drop a link to some on YouTube.

Mo Willems on YouTube

Here is a book check off sheet.  I've used these in first grade. I've also used a reading guide where we give the books "stars." For Seuss, we use hats, Marc Brown we use glasses, Mo Willems pigeons lol

After you read a book, we color in the pigeon below.  

Monday-

Story: Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus

Poem: Cookie Letter Match
match the letters or spell words

Word Study:  Wheels on the Bus

Fine Motor: Locks from Lakeshore

Science: Dollar Tree experiment

Math: Cookie ten frame

Art: Drive the art

Writing:  Maze

Theme/Life Skills: Egg nest relay race

Tuesday

Story: Duckling Gets a Cookie

Poem: Felt Cookie Oven (poem/story coming) 

Cookie Jar Counting

Word Study: Letter stamps
I grabbed these from Target. Get the sheet here.$

Fine Motor: Table Toys

Science: Float/Sink  Gather some items and see if they float and sink!

Math: Cookie Clip

Art: Pigeon Plate Remember that Dollar Tree sells those awesome tissue paper squares.

Writing: Grid

Theme/Life Skills: Design a Cookie
Depending on their ages, have them draw the cookie and dictate what should be in the cookie... I am a little nervous about the things Froglet may want to add lol . I am not sharing that we are making cookies lol


Thursday

Story: Pigeon Stays Up

Poem: Gerald Rhyming$

Word Study: Knufflebunny Match$

Fine Motor: Table Toys

Science: Make Ice Cream

Math: Bingo

Art: Dough Pigeon 
Give blue dough, one eye, yellow & white felt and black pipe cleaners

Writing: Trace

Theme/Life Skills: Make cookies