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.

May Morning Bins

 We are kicking off a new unit- nursery rhymes- post coming next week. 

Here are our morning bins this week:

Frogs on a log found HERE,

We are breaking out the glue bottles. 

We use glue sponges for our everyday needs.

Just a dot sheet from HERE.

We are making letters with brown sticks (pipe cleaners)

Stay tuned for more Nursery Rhymes.

The end of the year means we are no longer tracing our names.

Each day we will trace our names in different ways.

After they trace that way, the teacher will stamp that line and use the next line the next day.

At the end of the week, they will be sent home.

Grab this set here.$

Kinderpond has Gone to the Birds

Feed the Birds

Build a nest- these are half-sized popsicle sticks.

All the birds drawing cards I could find lol

Set 1

Set 2

Set 3

Set 4

You can search "directed drawing" and it will pull up a ton!

Match the shapes to the birds

We use these on a vertical surface.

Roll and fill the nest.

Measure me- feather sizes

Sorting egg sizes.

Writing numbers

Most of the printables are from HERE.

All of our science center photos are from HERE.

April Morning Bins

We are watering the plants, I mean letters lol. 

Did I use these gems last week? Yes, 

Did I put them away? Yes,

Did I get them back out for this week? Yes lol 

There is a whole set, but it's a frog lol

so we are all doing that one.

They can choose whatever color they want :)

we are doing torn paper and glue sponges.

Here is this set, but I have the whole bundle.

I don't have orange dough, but there are purple carrots,

so we're going with the purple carrots!!

I added a card, but they can make anything they'd like.

Kinderpond gets Buggy

We start each unit with a letter. 

In the insect unit, we start with a brief overview.

The next day, we focus on a different insect.

I write in cursive the return address :)

I just pick random order- sort of lol

I also include how to draw cards too, on Thursdays we have 

free choice in journals, so I read praying mantis on a Thursday, 

because drawing a mantis is difficult ;) 

Ladybug Lane

Grasshopper Gateway

Bee Place

Dragonfly Drive

Ant Avenue 

Mantis Street

ButterflyBoulvard 

So each day, we get :

*a letter, 

*a how-to-draw card, and a 

*small bug icon to glue in a bug cage. 

As soon as I find this file, I will put it in my TPT store :)

I used these but added the hearts at the bottom so they could write their names.

Each picture has different choices:

* dominos

* numerals

* ten frames

*tally marks
* fingers

When I put these in centers,

I will put one copy in a sheet protector

and color code the crayons at the top.

Click on the pictures or HERE for the link.

Additional coloring sheets from HERE.

Bug stew from HERE.

The die cuts were a notebook,

the flies are from HERE.

This is a bottle-drying rack.

Add bugs and tweezers!  

Roll the cube and add that many bees to the egg carton.

I used some mini-erasers and some yellow poms.

roll the number cube and put that many bees in the hive.

April Morning Bins

 This week in morning bins we have:

Trace Cards

Easter Cards

Snap Cubes

I think these are lawn decorations.

Find what else I bought HERE.

I gave them ribbons for them to lace through the spots. 

The one below is from HERE $

I found this one for free HERE.