Classroom Tour: Circle Time Area

 

This is our circle time area.

On the walls:

alphabet chart- from Dollar Tree

above the letters, I have name cards for everyone in my room, teachers included. I got them for free from HERE. I print a whole page per child, some are in uppercase and some are capital letters to begin, and the rest lowercase for the second semester.  I have two alphabets (my room is split into two parts lol) so I hang them up twice.  One full set for our journals. One for our writing center. One is for our birthday board, sort of lol They move their name when they turn 5 :) 

Our number charts from HERE.

Red and Green choices from HERE.

Voice levels HERE.

Calendar companion from HERE.

Days of the week from HERE.

Months of the year from HERE.

Days in school HERE

Schedule HERE.

Ways to sit posters HERE.

How to posters HERE.  These are at several centers in the room.

The Give Me Five poster came with my room :) But get a set HERE.

Hop back next week to continue our room tour!

Oh by the way, this is not a sponsored post, I have bought everything with my own money :)

2021 classroom tour

 Here are some of the areas in my room. Over the following weeks, I will give a little breakdown of each area.  

Today we will start with a quick overview.

Here is a panoramic of one side of my room:

                           

Here is our circle time rug.  The hoppy helper of the day gets to sit in the pond :) 

I have carpet halfway up my walls... 

in the other corner of my room we

have my reading loft and on that table

I have more library books and busy boxes.

Next to the loft my math manips

and one of my sensory tables.

My writing center

that black thing is the tool-turn-about from Pampered Chef lol

here's a better photo of the chart :) 

I tried to make it look like a crayon box :)

This 9 cube shelf is for our centers.

Usually, there are maybe 12 options lol

three across the top

Part of our science center

top of 6 cubes

Another part of our science center

2021-2022 School Year

 This is our *tentative* plan for this 2021-2021 year.

but like everything in life, we must be flexible!

Taking suggestions on what dramatic play for March... maybe a theater so they can act out nursery rhymes. Still deciding :)


We start school at 8:45 and go until 11:50.

8:45 school begins

    Coats/backpacks are hung up.

    Morning greeting

    Children grab their folders and their stars.

    Put folders in the folder box.

    Read and answer the question of the day.

    Trace your name.

    Get your morning bin

9:00 clean up and get ready for circle time/calendar.

9:30 snack

9:45 reading- children self-select books to look at 

9:50 small groups

10:00 centers

10:50 Dance party

11:00 Journals

11:15 Second Circle time: science or social skills lesson

11:25 Closing and getting ready to go outside

11:30 Outside

11:50 our day is done :)

  

I will be doing a quick classroom talk about our day with photos and then a detailed post about each center in my room.

Kinderpond dives into the Ocean

 As we finish up our last few weeks of school, we are going to the ocean!

Here is one sensory bin with Kinetic sand.

This is 3 big bags of sand. We found them for $1.25 each!

Wooden toys from Target for the blocks center.

Balance toys from Target.

Fish ice cube trays from Dollar Tree.

Add dice and pom-poms or mini erasers.

Stuffies for reading

Felt sets from Target.

Poppers from Dollar Tree

We are going to measure how far they travel.

Lacers- I think from Target.

Another felt set from Target.

Felt memory set from Target 

Sea x-rays for the light table.

Items for the light table.

I think the jewels were from Big Lots.

Even if you don't have a light table, you can use them.

I didn't have a light table when I bought them ;) 

Here are rubbing plates from Dollar Tree.

Felt play set.

Here is a whale puzzle from Target.

Ocean animals I think I will add this to the sensory bin with rice.

Same rice from dental health unit :)

Here is where and what I got for this unit over at 

Kinderpond: where the teacher shops

Here are our calm down squishies 

Hungry Dolphins-

the blue circle thing- is kind of like a wok, it doesn't sit flat.

The children grab the color balls and put in the colored cups on the side.

Here are some of my books:

more books in anther room

May Morning Bins

We are practicing with glue sticks here.

These came from Play to Learn Preschool

We read the glue stick book from Pip first of course lol

You pick a card and make a butterfly.

Pick a card and make a flower.

Pick a card and make a caterpillar.

Counting mats with butterfly mini erasers.

frog mini-erasers

pom-pom caterpillars

Frogs on a log.

We've used these frogs before, now I added the cards. 

The cards get harder. There are three different levels.

Basic seen below.

Some are missing the last frogs.

Some are different sizes.