Ice Cream Centers

 Here are some of the books we used during our unit:

These were brand new this year and a huge hit!

These are our ice cream gameboards. 

There is a 10-frame under the mini erasers.

These are found HERE.

This is how I store my Stews.

A simple ziploc bag.

Get your Stews HERE.

This is the Stew all put together.

I used large pom poms for the ice cream, I used 

fun foam for the bananas and chocolate syrup.

I used beads for the sprinkles.

Here are our mixing bowls and ice cream scoops for the stews.

The bowls and green scoop is from Dollar Tree.

The blue scoop is from an ice cream set.

We are making popsicles HERE.

I used half pipe cleaners.

Here we are making patterns on a pocket chart.

These are from HERE.

Here are our play dough mats.

Emotions HERE.

Shapes HERE.

Number Subitizing HERE.

Ice Cream Shop sundae HERE.

One day, we practiced making waffle cones.

One day we practiced making scoops.

On this day, we put them together and

used crepe paper and glue sticks.

This was part of our fine motor journals.

Letter of the Day

The situation: I use all of these for the letter of the day work. 

Read about my setup HERE.

Going clockwise:

Let's learn the Letter books

There are new letter sound books that I will add

Random mini-books

Letter A games- this is a whole set.

Letter Pictures

Read about the letter board HERE.

I can barely carry this thing lol

Soon it will have another book included!

The bad news is that it doesn't all fit inside lol

I am leaning toward hanging folders because 

I need it organized and manageable.

I am up for any other ideas!

More May Bins and Journals

 During our nursery rhymes unit, we also celebrated a birthday. 

So we drew rectangles and added a flame.

 

We are making cakes today!

We talked about different lines we could 

make on our cakes to decorate them :)

At the end of the lesson,

I ask if they want a

*Heart

*Star

*Smiley Face

It's a smelly marker :)

pre-k through 5th graders love them!!

We practice writing our names each day.

Then today we made moons and I gave them each 4 star stickers.

Spider day!

We did Itsy Bitsy Spider

Little Miss Muffet

Today was Humpty Dumpty

We drew horizontal lines.

Then I showed LEGO tower that was stacked

then showed them when they were staggered.

Here are our morning bins:

Scissor skills

Theme Words

Ice Cream Names

Glue Stick practice

Monthly Scissor Skills

Theme Words

For each theme, the children use the writing center

with word cards to write and illustrate.

Ice Cream names HERE.

We are practicing our glue stick skills.

We usually use glue sponges.

This is how the drawer for the kids looks:

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.$