October Centers Week 4 Halloween

As we come into our last week of October, 

brings Halloween! Regardless if I taught about it or not, 

it is on all of our minds. :)

 

My hope for these is to:

 1) wind these up to work on fine motor

2) see how far these walk....

Snap cube cards

Matching pumpkin upper and lowercase

from Pocket of Preschool.

Spooky House with letters

Bone Letters

Felt ghosts and pumpkins

on our flannel board

we're working on vertical surfaces here

Fill In games:

Kids roll the dot cube and place that number of 

mini erasers down on the game board

Treat bag

I haven't listed the pumpkins or webs yet lol

Play dough mats

V for vampire

counting mats

Egg Cartons and tongs

oh and of course colored eye balls lol

We have a "dungeon" at my school, 

while I was down there, I grabbed this!

The number cards are from Pocket of Preschool. 

Pumpkins on the vine.

Roll a cube and draw on that many pumpkins. 

This is how it gets put away when we're done :) 

Side note... no Halloween Stew... it's what started it all off and why my past students love them... I can't for the life of me, find it!!!! waaaaaaaaaa

So we're doing Fall Stew from Pocket of Preschool.

A bunch of coloring pages and a spider

I have them use black paper for the legs.

We made folded paper for the 8 legs.

Adding the correct number of eyes to the monsters.

I love the cards and wanted to use them, so they became a math center. 

A whole bunch of cutting practice. 

Pumpkin Puff Bake Shop

The kids read the recipe card and add that many poms to the trays.

The trays come from Dollar Tree

Last week, was my son's birthday, so we've been getting boxes sent to our house.

I look carefully, and low and behold,

these were things from my wishlist!!!

*cue tears*

Week 4: October Morning Work

 Morning Work this week:

Spider web from Pocket of Preschool. 

Children cut out their names and glue on the web :)

These mats from Tara West

(my correct colored pom-poms haven't arrived yet lol)

These are from Perfectly Preschool

These are clothes pins clip cards.

I have three different sets.

Halloween Clip Cards

Halloween Counting Mats

When I use these counting mats (which come in a TON of themes!!)

I put dots by the numbers to help children who need help. :) 

I used googly eyes from Dollar Tree

Ghosts from maybe Hobby Lobby (it's been a while since I bought those lol)

Spiders are from my KinderCrate

October: Week 2 & 3 Morning Work

Here, I grabbed tongs, ice cube trays and pom-poms 

I put name mats down and had three different types of mini erasers.

Children used their pincer grasp to put mini erasers

on their names 

More mini erasers

I added the dots next to the numerals 

for my students still needing that extra support :)

These were supposed to be my leaves mini erasers...

I can't find them lol

I grabbed these acorns instead.

Told my students, my leaves blew away lol

I added red, yellow, and green bricks.

Everything from Dollar Tree.

Week three morning work-

well we had a random day off--

I am writing this so I remember why we had a day off,

the local district I teach for, was going virtual.

I teach in a partnership school.

I follow the district benchmarks and such,

but my classroom is located in a child care center.

I made the decision to stay face to face with my students.

Even though, I told my boss, my co-teacher and 

I were going to go and teach from a warm beach lol

We had only three days of school, 

so we only did three bins-

they were exactly the same lol

Tuesday~ 

we traced our cutting sheets with high-lighters and 

cut them out for our cutting sample for the month.

I am always "don't cut the "such and such thing"

either December or January is a mug.

So I am like "don't cut my coffee!"

The kids think it is so funny!!!

I put our scissor sheets and our monthly portrait sheets in my 

binder together for the whole year.

I know exactly where they are and I 

can pop them into our morning bins or during journals. 

Wednesday~

Self portraits

Thursday~

We cut our book orders and glued them

on our sheets.

 

October Week Two

Our room is really coming along! 

We have our math area and sensory bin area.

Here's our loft.

It houses bean bags

and our library.

The 9 cube shelves

hold our centers for the theme.

Here is our calendar area.  

Here are our centers for the theme:

Pumpkin feelings mat-

we use play dough to make the faces:) 

Here's a coloring sheet:

there is a color code

at the top.

I colored in the code

on mine and popped it in a plastic sleeve.

Pumpkin Stew 

We've loved the school one :)

Another coloring sheet

(some of my students are super into coloring this year)

I added the green & brown construction

paper for the stem and leave.

Pumpkin Patch Count

Roll the dot cube and put that

many pumpkins in the wagon

Pumpkin patterns

I used real pumpkin seeds, 

pumpkins and candy corn mini erasers.

Pumpkin Latte Count

The pick a card for the whipped cream and 

then pick one for the pumpkin.

Tongs are included :) 

Apple tracers

We use a make-up pad for erasers :)

All the scarecrows have names from our class.

Spell your name and then your friends :)

Most of the printables are from Pocket of Preschool.

October Week 1

 We "played" Wiggly Worm

from Play to Learn Preschool.

We hid a worm behind an color apple.

We guessed which color apple the worm was behind.

Later we did a helpful Sort

from Tara West.

For morning work 

I copied mini erasers on our color copier.

Then the kids used the erasers to match them to the sheet.

These puzzles were from Target.

I split them up between three drawers.

I copied these snap cubes shapes on fun paper!

Here is our monthly scissor skills sheet.

Trace the lines with a highlighter (from Naeir)

and cut them out :)