October Morning Work

I have this product.  I chose some for each month.

In my assessment binder, I have all of my monthly sheets:

reading homework, monthly portrait, and scissors skills.

 

We used this spider web from HERE.

Kids write their names, one letter on each square.

I write in yellow if they can't write it themselves.

Hash tag blocks from Target

Mid~Year Open House

 I held a mid-year open house this year for the first time ever.  If you hold one, what do you do at yours?

Scavenger Hunt

Meet the teacher

One thing that wasn't on there was my email address.

Schedule

Getting ready for preschool

Our classroom mailbox.  

Typically, it is on my windowsill, but I brought it down for the open house.  

I added a frog, of course, for the kids to give a hug :)

The binder has our class letters.

A sampling of our morning bins.

Literally, I took whichever ones we were using.  

Fine Motor Journals

I put our cards out for the kids to trace along

with my journal.    

Classbooks we made

I Like to Eat

Disco Balls

Eating Gumdrops

We Wear Shoes

Feast

Cookies

This is just a try-fold board for photo ops!

I have to add some frogs to it :)

I will have this available and more for my back-to-school night.

Writing Center

I left a bucket of writing tools and a scratch paper for them to try the cool tools out :)

Dramatic or Pretend Play

Lists some of the past themes I've done.

Science Center

We were doing sn*w, so I had them make a snowflake with whatever materials I already had

I had glass gems :)

Please let me know if you would find my sign descriptions helpful for your open house.  I will post them.

Morning Work

I made die-cut frogs for our tree this month :)

I added cards from HERE.

 

Grab the (green) paper here. 

Check out my post all about these drawing cards HERE.

I have used these cards from pre-k through 5th grade & 6th graders :)

Frogs on a log found HERE,

Spring Crafts

Calm Down Time

 Each month, I change out tools in our calm-down area. 

Take a look at my area HERE.

I kept the two books there the whole time. I also 

have a library shelf available with books.

I needed to come up with some monthly breathing exercises 

to change out each month as well.

Hop over here to grab a free sample.

When I first introduced this to my students this year, someone in the next classroom was really struggling with their emotions.

One of my students said that they needed to do some "turkey breathing."

I did chuckle a bit because I had just made it up for our class.

I then agreed with them that our neighbor indeed needed to do some 

"turkey breathing" :) 

Check out the video:

Winner Winner!!!

💜💜 Shout out to Pocket of Preschool 

for this box of swag💜💜 

This box was packed full of goodies!!!

I was honored by Jackie to get a box :)

Starting at the top:

💜 garage sale dots

💜 Personalized Pocket of Preschool Pens

💜self-care mask

💜tempera paint sticks

💜Scissor scoops

💜Bounce Back Scissors

💜bracelets, I can't wait to wear them for school :)

💜foam number cube

💜lavender lotion

💜Gator grips

💜clay tools

💜more self-care items

💜adorable golf-sized Ticonderoga pencils (so cute!!)

💜official Pocket of Preschool lip balm

💜hand tongs

💜a Starbucks gift card (say what?!?!?!?) 

💜I think those packets are putty

and the pièce de ré·sis·tance

💜💜is an official Pocket of Preschool tumbler!!!💜💜

Be on the lookout for all the fun we're going to have 

with all of these goodies!

Thanks again for the swag, Jackie :) 

Morning Bins: April

frogs and snails mini-erasers

Frogs on a log.

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

The cards get harder. There are three different levels.

Basic is shown below.

Some are missing the last frogs.

Some are different sizes.

They are Funtastic Frogs from the 1990's from Carson Dellosa.

Match the Caterpillar

Q-tip but I used them as pokey-pins.

I have this whole unit.

I can't remember which exactly unit it was in.

Spring Morning Work

 Hopping into Spring Snailed It 

torn paper :)

Watering Trees

Pom Pom Ice Cube Trays

School Buses