Sept week 4

 Here are our morning work drawers:

They flip over a card and cover the shape on the tree.

I added mini erasers, of course. Apples in fact :)

I have three drawers, so three different types of apple mini erasers!

Find the game here.$

Tracing letters (upper and lower) and numbers.

Paper punches and strips of construction paper.

I always cut too many strips for 

our person collage.

Felt lacing shapes

Play dough cards

I used both real photos (Tara West)

and clipart cards.

Both groups came up with science tools

after we read a science tools book

September: Week 3

 We will practice our play dough skills to get Pip certified.

Magnet toys from Target

new this year

these are new this year 

these are new this year 

Balance Toys

these are from last year

these are new this year 

these are new this year 

This weeks small groups:

We will play this sort of like bingo.

Teacher will call out a shape and 

the children will cover it with

a mini shape eraser.

My district assesses these 6 shapes.

I couldn't find the perfect sheet,

so I used posters and shrunk them down to 

fit on one page.

We will play just for shape ID. 

There is a Pip spinner book.

We will practice spinning the spinner and take that many 

star mini erasers.

Practicing our color skills here.

I will print some color cards.

They will cover the circles with mini star erasers.

I had extra number strips, so I 

cut one up.

The teacher will call and show the number and

the children will cover them with some mini apple erasers.

The printables from our small groups are

from Tara West's Tool Kits.

Things that are in our morning bins, go into our centers
so they can choose to play with them during free choice centers.

When we are done with the morning bins, those things go into the centers.  

So last week's unifix cards into the math center.

The "gameboards" we used, go into the math center.

They are still playing all the "games" we played last week.

We are not only working on our fine motor skills,

we are working on letters as well.

The fine motor is when they grasp small items.

In this case.... mini erasers! 

Stacking toys from Target

and another way to stack!

We learned how to play the path games.

Grab your free printable here. About 2/3 of the way down.

Magnet games from Target.

We worked on reading numerals to 5. I called out a number and they 

covered it on their game board ;) 

More balance games from Target.

We sorted our goldfish!

We read a Pip book on Spinners and we got to use spinners.

I made a video and posted it to the big kids blog.

Here is another morning bin. We cut apart our book orders and 

put them on our book wishlist.

We worked on parts of a scientist.

The printable came from 

Pocket of Preschool.

Sept week 2

 Morning Bins week two

Here is how I store our morning bins:

They pull the drawers out and spread out around the room.

I have their names on frog name cards From the Pond.

I attached velcro to the backs and on my drawers.

I move the names down to the next set of drawers. 

Each set of 3 drawers houses the same set of manipulatives.

I added cards to the teddy bears.

Cards here too.

Frogs on a log and cards

(these might be my favorite, I have to borrow

the bears, but not these frogs lol)

Plastic chains and cards

Snap cubes and cards

Here are some more Pip books of course!

My co-teacher taught half the group about the Dot Cube.

I taught mini counters. 

Then we swapped kids and taught the lesson again.

Then we brought out the game boards.

We followed the mini counter book with ideas to use them:

We  made numbers:

shapes

patterns

Here are our game boards:

we rolled our dot cubes

I used foam cubes and used only 1-3 dots (called Pips1)

Roll the dot cube and add that many mini counters

when they filled their card, then they rolled again and 

removed the mini counters to the container.

Remember last week we practiced our scissor skills?

We decorated our people collages while using the 

Glue sponges too. Plus there's a Pip book for that too!

We read Pip: Dough Fun and played with play dough and tools.

We learned how to open it and close them too!

After we read and practice a Pip book, the kids get to be Pip Certified.

I hang these signs all over!

so in the pretend area, 

when they child has demonstrated

mastery of the area,

they choose a color of dry erase marker and 

I write their name.

The kids are so proud of their learning.

We ended our week with Green and Red Choices

from Pocket of Preschool

We will continue to practice these

next week.

We literally had a child do every single red choice 

in after care... 

I will read Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse

if we continue to have rough days.

"Today was rough, 

but tomorrow will be better."