Friendship Centers

     

Two different pots for our stews.$

Sensory Bin

purple and pink liquid watercolors rice

scoops, mini erasers, silicone cupcake liners, see-through hearts

                                        Tic Tac Toe games from Target.

                                   For the block area, items from Target.

Felt pieces for our flannel board

Cupcakes for Pete and the Missing Cupcake

Reading Buddies

Items for the light table

These are old transparencies!

Excess laminating or sheets

February Morning Bins

Craft Sticks

I went old school and just wrote on craft sticks

with Sharpie :) 

I made a set from 1-20.

Then I split it between each of my morning bins. 

Hash tag blocks

I have several sets of these, so I 

drew lines of different colors

on the backs of the cards, 

in case they get mixed up or fall

on the floor, so we can easily find it's home drawer :)

Heart ornaments for our tree

I added my bin of scrap paper, punches, and funky scissors.

Olympic theme words

Why do I call them "morning bins?"

Because they aren't bins and I don't like "Morning Drawers," I guess lol  

Olympics Centers

 

Printables from Pocket of Preschool's Olympic Winter Games

writing on foil on clipboards

Gold Bar letters

I used to drink coffee, and the lids were gold.

When I taught first grade, they had words on them.

I used foam beads and pipe cleaners.

Pokey pins :)

Fine Motor journal ideas

How a hockey puck moves

Skiers skiing around gates

I used garage sale dots.

torch

 for curling:

I gave everyone a "rock," aka a bottle top :)

My example :)

Shape of the Day Part 2

 I have my students trace shapes on the easel, 

right before we draw them on paper.

I tell them they need to color in the shape like they are 

frosting/icing a cookie.

No one wants an unfrosted cookie!

They draw and color them in, then I display them on the board.

This year, I added the shapes behind their art, 

but last year, I just drew the shapes on construction paper.

This was last year's:

Shapes board part one

Shapes part two

Winter Morning Work

Sn*wflakes and more!

I give them a choice about what color they can use,

Hole Punches papers

Read more about the punches here.

Funky Scissors to make a cutting collage

Fine motor snowflake beads-

just stringing them on a pipe cleaner

You could have them make patterns,

you could add a dice and have them 

add that many beads 

to the pipe cleaner.

I got them from Oriental Trading,

here is the post they made

using them, but they are out of stock.

Winter Centers

Winter Centers

sn*w and ice magnatiles- not a big hit at all this year, no one used them!

I swapped it out with something in week two.

I think they were from Target.

Play-Doh with cookie cutters and mats.

Here are some play-dough mats $ for them to use:

More HERE $ 

Wooden houses and a truck from Target.

stuffies- mostly from Dollar Tree

We are using these as reading buddies :)

Cubes for a light table.

The box is from Dollar Tree and they are sn*wflakes.

plain white felt sn*wmen at the bottom

decorated sn*wmen 

sn*wmen ornaments from Target.

Paper punches, white crayons, and colored pencils- 

not a big hit either, swapped it out week 2.

Ten frames with sn*wflakes from a past KinderCrate.

I added felt numbers to match.

sn*wmen have magnets on the back for our magnet center.

Number guide from Tara West.

These were our snowmen math magnet game.$

In the white bin

I drew the faces on the cups.

The snowballs were from Target, I think.

The cups just sit in a bin, and the kids toss yarn  pom-poms

into them and call out the number they sank the pom-pom.

Besides our fine motor table, I added these trays.

These are super small trays.

I have a bag for each number.

Yellow tray- random cards- I have zero idea where they came from.

Blue tray- Number Blocks cards from a set. 

Number cards from some people I bought this summer.

(Blog post upcoming)

Red Tray~ textured cards from Target and sandpaper cards from FB Marketplace.

Pink Tray~ From Hands2Mind

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January Morning Work

Craft sticks

rubber bands

I wrote number words, numerals, and dots on the sticks.

The kids will place that many bands on the sticks.

Sn*wball letters

Trace with your finger

trace with a marker- wet-erase

write with the marker

Eraser Cards: There are 6 different sets of cards.

I did add sn*wflake mini erasers :)

Winter Hat