February Morning Work

Trace, trace, (write) and erase here $

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

We chant "trace, trace, and erase."

There is NO name on these!

I can't find it anywhere. :(

I even put it in Google Lens and

still no luck.

Scissor Skills

Writing Center

Room Tour: Writing

 This will be a multiple-part series where I take you on a tour of my classroom. So 🐸hop along with us on this journey. Leave me a comment about something that’s awesome about your room that I need to add to my room! 

Read more HERE.

Grab all of these writing themes here.

Jackie from Pocket of Preschool has combined all of 

her unit's word cards and writing papers in one product!!!

March Morning Bins week 2

Pokey jumbo pins 

I have zero knowledge of where I got these from.

 

I made the cards.

I made a spreadsheet with a single column, 

then shaded one in.

I did old school and cut things out to make this paper.

We write and illustrate 4/5 words from our writing center.

Name craft
Crayon Box Name

Polar Animals Study

 We started off the year by traveling to the Arctic.

We read a letter introducing the whole unit. Then each day we met new animals. 

I added some winter-themed pencils and blue markers to our writing tool turn-about.

Here are some of the books we used:

We made icicles in our journals.

We have to at least make as many as we are old.

This was one of my transitions. They spun the paperclip and put some "ice" on that animal.

The "ice" are glass beads- blue, clear, and frosted.

Polar animals spin

The tray came from Dollar Tree.

All of our centers are stored here.

I share my classroom, so everything is stored here.

I cover it with a pocket chart after my class is done.

The large empty space on top is for our stews, 

which I put up high on a shelf. 

Penguin roll

Penguins are from Dollar Tree

penguin mini erasers from the KinderCrate.

Kids roll the number cube and add that many penguins to the penguins.

Pokey pins are From the Pond.

I make my students lay on their bellies to poke these.

Random blocks and animals from Target.

Roll and Build

The matching play dough cards are underneath the key card.

Winter magnet tiles

Penguins

I thought they would be hard like those counting bears,

but these are more pliable.

This game.... the pieces are good...when not used together lol

It is supposed to balance, it is more frustrating than anything.

Watch the video.

Polar and Snowman Stews HERE

but just get the bundle HERE.

Week 2 I added this one :)

All About Reading and More

I have two sets of bookshelves.

One on my floor and one in my loft.

The chart is about book care and can be found here$

I laminated a piece of chart paper- well half lol 

I drew the cute border folded in half and ran through my big laminator.

Then used a razorblade to separate the sides.

When we discuss library expectations,

I add the pieces and tape them to the chart.

 I need to figure out what to do with those bins lol

they just keep getting moved all around lol

Here is our writing center:

I need to figure out what else to put in my writing center.

Maybe chalk and chalkboards.

Maybe letters.... hummmmm...... 

Stay tuned for new writing utensils!

Nursery Rhymes in Kinderpond

 Nursery Rhyme Time in Kinderpond

Here are our Humpty Dumpty eggs- there are small cards 

for the children to create egg patterns.

Some of our books

more of our books

I laminated cards and tapped a bag to the back

it holds all of the pieces that we retell in 

our mini pocket charts.

These are the front of the cards.

Here are some of our pocket charts.

I usually do 2 poems a day-

that sort of go together

Here are our Jack Be Nimble cards

the children can build with cubes

Spider match-

again- the filler is sort of like

fish gravel but plastic.

We are making Hickory Dickory Clocks

to match upper and lowercase

The children will roll and add that many poms to the sheep

Missing is the cup of white poms.

I love love love these Melissa& Doug shoes to tie!!

These go with 1, 2 Buckle My Shoe

Here are our mini-story retelling sets.

When I introduce a new poem, we do a scavenger hunt 

For some of these, I have flannel sets.

for Humpty Dumpty- we talked about what we could use-

in this case, we got a block and an egg to retell the story

The tube is for Itsy Bitsy Spider

The popsicle sticks- are for 1, 2, Buckle My Shoe

Printables below from HERE.

Here is our birthday cake 

Think: Patty Cake

I added mini eraser stars to 

add the numbers on top and

we add mini erasers to the bottom.

Here is our writing center

each shelf has its own goodies.

I also have Pampered Chef Tool-Turnabout

with all sorts of writing tools:

*pens

*pencils

* colored pencils

* thin markers

* thick markers
*Pip Squeek Markers

*Twistables

*Crayons

This pocket chart is hanging to the right of our table.

Grab all of these printables HERE.