Winter Morning Work

Sn*wflakes and more!

I give them a choice about what color they can use,

Hole Punches papers

Read more about the punches here.

Funky Scissors to make a cutting collage

Fine motor snowflake beads-

just stringing them on a pipe cleaner

You could have them make patterns,

you could add a dice and have them 

add that many beads 

to the pipe cleaner.

I got them from Oriental Trading,

here is the post they made

using them, but they are out of stock.

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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Winter Fine Motor Table

Trace it-Write it 

Snowflake- 3 Dinos

Shape Snowmen

I printed 6 to a page. 

They can also be a full printed page.

Tracing

Hole Punching

Book- The Little Snowman

Winter Fun

Cut the item

Marble Trace

My Tracing Book- Kindergarten Rocks

Here's the prep part. I will update later with the 

actual "in progress" photos of the table when it is set up.

Winter Centers and More!

 

We read the book The Jacket I Wore.

We came up with different things we can wear in the sn*w.

Here I have some winter punches, white colored pencils and crayons 

for the children to make winter scenes.

There is blue paper for the background.

There is white paper for the sn*w.

Here is my example:

The green box is our glue sponge.

Here is our play dough bin.

I know some people use a tray but I use trays for my 

themed stews.

I put the letters to spell sn*w.

Here are some play dough mats $ for them to use:

More HERE $ 

Here is our snowman stew $

in the video, it shows how I store them,

but this is how to display it.

The bowls are from Dollar Tree,

they have snowflakes around them.

Here are the winter magnatiles.

I think they were from Target.

These were our snowmen math magnet game.$

Feed the Snowman $

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.

I would suggest keeping the cups in a bin

so the cups don't tip over.

Snowball ten frames

I just used white cotton balls.

There are tons of activities in THIS unit. $

There was a snowman tic-tac-toe gameboard at Dollar Tree.

But I just had my children match on the card.

There are two versions of this game.

Found here.$

Morning Work January Edition

 It was a short week for us, only 3 days, so our three morning bins were:

Melted Sn*wman

We just used scrap paper for the white part- just plain copy paper.

We will use our glue sponges to glue things down.

Hashtag blocks

I am still looking for maybe some cards to add,

like, make this letter or this shape or whatever.

Winter Emotions

Grab your *free* copies below.

There are four winter feelings:

Mittens pink/purple

Hot cocoa

Hats

Mittens blue

Someone made a polar bear one and I loved it so much,

I made recording sheets to go along with the ones above.

Alas, I can't remember where I saw it or the creator,

I am so sorry, I wanted to link your work here, but I can't recall where it was :(

 I will try to post this in the TPT store ASAP!

I still have to do my lesson plans for tomorrow lol

January Sn*w Centers

Just some regular snow punches. 

The container came from Dollar Tree. 

This is a spinner game with Unifix cubes.

Spin and graph.

You could be all fancy and use item counters like a carrot 

eraser and buttons, but we just got Unifix cubes!

Pattern block challenge

Snapcube challenge

Pocket chart numbers-

I think there are 3 or 4 things to match to the number head.

I pulled all my blue magnatiles for our light table.

We also got these!!!!!!

Hop over here to see how I store my pom-poms.
I am also thinking of doing the same with LEGO bricks.

I got these from Target and going to put them in the blocks center.

I have some playdough cards and some snowmen cookie cutters.

The kids bring in 4 containers of playdough.

I try to choose colors that fit the month.

Blues for January. 

(Reds and pinks for Feb.

Greens and oranges March

April greens

October oranges and black

Nov brown

December green and red)

Here's a dice game where the children roll the number cube and add mini erasers.

Most of the printables are from HERE. $$

Oh.... and my least favorite word is sn*w lol

my students think it is so funny.

It is the first word that I actively teach them to read lol

just so I don't have to say it!!! 

Next week, I will show you our morning work. :)