Week 1 and 2 2026 and centers too!

 Week 1 and 2 of morning bins.

I try to pick things that my students probably have seen before.  Pattern blocks, snap cubes, color bears, and frogs of course lol which are new but similar to those bears.

Check those out HERE and Week 2 HERE.

Week 2, I added items/cards to go along with each drawer.

Pattern Block Cards

                        These bear cards are definitely from Tara West, but I am unable to locate them :(

I think they are from Carson Dellosa about a million years ago.

Here are the workbooks, that's the only thing I could find.

After, we finished week 1 and 2, we transition to these.

Here's the photo post about THESE.

✨ Spotlight Saturday ✨

 

✨ Spotlight Saturday ✨ 

🌈Colors Book🌈

✨ Color Book Craft – Interactive Class Book for Learning Colors ✨

Make learning colors fun and interactive with this hands-on craftivity! Students will color items to match each color word, cut them out, and glue them onto a page. When finished, bind all the pages together to create a class color book that your students will love reading again and again!

🌈 Colors Included:

• Red
• Orange
• Yellow
• Green
• Blue
• Purple
• Pink
• Gray
• Black
• White

📘 What’s Inside:

• One page per color with the sentence starter: “These things can be ___.”
• Multiple pictures for students to color and glue to match the featured color
• A simple and engaging activity that reinforces color recognition, fine motor skills, and early literacy

👩‍🏫 How to Use:

1. Introduce one color at a time.
2. Students color the items, cut them out, and glue them onto the matching page.
3. Compile each student’s pages into their own book OR combine the whole class’s work into one class book to read in your classroom library!

🌟 Perfect for:

• Preschool, Pre-K, and Kindergarten
• Back to School activities
• Centers or small group work
• Early finishers
• Interactive bulletin boards or class displays

Your students will be so proud to see their contributions in a real book they helped create!

✨ Spotlight Saturday ✨ Color of Friends

✨ Spotlight Saturday ✨

💜This week's Kinderpond featured item is our Color of Friends! 💜

Created for Pre-K, Kindergarten & First Grade, this classroom-tested resource makes learning fun, engaging, and easy to prep. Perfect for your frog themed classroom!

📚 Follow along every Saturday as we feature a new Kinderpond resource to help your little learners grow.

💬 What would you like to see featured next?

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All About the Dice

 I got my very first TikTok sample!!!!

First off it comes in this adorable container!!  

I didn't want to wreck it, so I opened it from the bottom :)

Anyways, as a 4 year old kindergarten teacher, 

I needed to come up with ways to use them in my classroom. 

When I introduce a new area in my room or a new supply,

I read a Pip the Pup

In this case, I will get the Dot Cube

Here are a few that I've come up with

Y'all when I was grabbing all the links... I made the dang thing myself lol

Shark Roll and Cover:

Shirts

I add foam dice and those "chips" are sort of like poker chips.

I don't actually know what they are lol

Real buttons work too :)

I cut out egg shapes, but any die cuts would work.

I wrote numbers on it but you could

roll a dice and punch that many times. 

 

Found HERE:

I found a deal on egg poppers, so grab any fidget poppers,

pom-poms, dice, and tongs.

Roll the dice, 

pop that many poppers down and then add poms on top. 

I added the tongs for added practice.

Roll and cover. 

We rolled a dice and covered the number rolled 

with a mini eraser.  My sheet aka gameboard, goes to 20.

Shark color

Adding dice to this for additional practice.

Roll the dice and add that many beads to the pipe cleaners

Roll dice and add that many counters to a spot in the ice cube tray.

I have a ton of fill in games.

For little learners, I have them color each item, for older learners, they could write the number they rolled on each item. For example, on the pencils fill in.

little learners color in 4 pencils if they rolled a 4. 

Older learners will roll and write the number 4 in one pencil. Then roll again, repeat!

Number Trays from Dollar Tree

Shapes and Colors, Oh My!

I can't find my exact set.

This is the closest one I can find.

It will be a bummer if I ever lose one! :( 

We do a color of the day as part of our calendar.

Each day is a different color.

Each day, I put up a new poster.

When I start school, the walls are blank on purpose.

Read about our color board HERE.

Read about our color table HERE. 

After we do color of the day, we do shape of the day.

We start with the shape of the day board.

Read about that HERE.

Before we do journals, I give them a piece of paper.

I think it is about 1/8 of an 8x11 sheet.

I tell them to "frost the cookie"

we try to use the whole piece because no one wants a small cookie!

I cut out shapes from construction paper wrote the name of the shape on it.

We taped the "cookie shapes" on top.

Thats it!

 

Beginning of the Year: Centers and Morning Work

Beginning of the year centers and morning work.

 This is currently unavailable, but you can read about it.

These are in out centers.

These are from Target. This is a morning bin choice.

Family counters in our morning bins, which are really drawers lol

Snapcubes

Snap Cube Cards

morning work

Chains

Option 1

Option 2

Centers

A close match for teddy bears.

Centers

Centers and morning work

Centers puzzles

 think they are from Carson Dellosa about a million years ago.

I have these frogs!

I bought them years and years ago.

There are three sizes of frogs.

Many colors and logs that the small frogs can sit on.

There are cards, too, so the kids can follow the patterns

They start in morning bins and move to centers.

Letter Table

 Hop over here to see how it began.

Trays (that I think are too small for much else.) 

Each day, I add a letter. These are part of a letter train, 

so I keep adding to these.

Letter transformers, I add one each day until the tray is full,

then I put put a box :) 

This tray changes daily.

Letter tracers from Lakeshore.

Circle cards from who knows where lol

These are sandpaper letters from Discount School Supply.

They don't carry them at the moment.

I found THESE but they seems to be bigger than 

what I currently have. Mine are small like

playing cards size.

Letter animal puzzles.

Random flashcards.

The cardboard pieces are from these alphabet cans.

I added mini erasers.

This is the "I Spy" tray.

I need to make a sign so they remember what to do. 

This is a table top pocket chart.

Normally the chart hangs on my wall.

The kids grab a pointer and read the sentences.

I can't find the exact set :(

Rainbow chart was from a Teacher Crate (I think)

I may have even cut it lol

I added those clips from Hand2Mind

Did I think to take a photo of storage? Not until now.

Maybe by the end of the series I will lol

It is very high tech... a ziploc bag lol

All the bags live in two milk crates.