December Morning Bins

 We have four days of school, so I have four bins each week:

Trace, trace, write and erase.

Grab these here $.

Gumdrop numbers $

put the number of pompoms on gumdrops.

I had them "trace" the number with Wikki Sticks.

Grab this AMAZING mat for easy storage plus it's free!!!

ABC's find and cover from here $.

Gingerbread emotions we used playdough or 

you could use dry-erase markers. 

Roll and Cover$

Build and trace from here. $

Counting Gumdrops here $

The easiest center/morning bin ever!

I literally drew three lines on paper and 

slid them into page protectors. 

Just change the erasers and BAM new center!

Hop over here to see our holiday gifts!!

Gingerbread Centers

 Centers for our gingerbread unit

Here is our sensory bin:

filled with oatmeal with cinnamon sprinkled in

cups

purple and pink letters

gingerbread mini erasers

whisks

plastic scoops

measuring cups and spoons

clear scoops (not photoed)

Writing center with cool papers

One of our books shelves.

Printables from here $

I used mini gb and candy erasers.

In the pack, she included some house clipart.

Here are those candy building set.

GB Houses puzzles from here. $

Color by number. Grab it here $

Wooden houses from Bullseye's Playground.

Decorate the GB house next photo shows the tools we use:

There are a couple of those red and white rollers are I think ornaments? 

anyways from Wal~Mart. Cookie cutters too!

Spin and color sheets from here $

My reading buddies

Some pointers to choose from.

I used white pom poms for the marshmallows and for the chocolate, I used brown fun foam! 

Build the Number 

Cookie Shop

Let the cookie-making BEGIN!!!!!!! 

We read a couple of books to introduce the cookie shop.

Betsy from Play to Learn!!

Most of the printables came from Play to Learn.

I designed my sign after theirs and used clip art.

I made the green frosting thing with real tips.

It is a piece of felt.

The white bag behind is a real pastry bag, with a styrofoam tree form(?) 

Most of the aprons are from Dollar Tree and I glued/taped badges on them.

to-go boxes

bowls are from Dollar Tree.

The bottom of the tray is labeled.

My chocolate chip cookies are felt with brown X's on them lol

Sugar cookies are from Target a few years back.

My GB cookies are foam and I think from a GB kit from 

Oriental Trading- a super long time ago lol

Most of the items came from Dollar Tree.

*white mixing bowls

*blue pot holders

*cooling racks

*cookie pans
*baskets to hold stuff

*take home container boxes

*aprons

*pastry bags

Healthy Bodies/Nutrition Unit

 We started our healthy bodies unit.

We will talk not only about food and nutrition,

but feelings and exercise as well.

As always, we start with a letter.

My students love opening letters!

I don't have the exact word cards that go with the letter, so I got these from HERE. 

New pointers all about food. Read about some of the pointers HERE.

how it starts:

So after I read the letter, I put the cards in our writing center.

I have several choices for writing papers.

Here is our play dough bin.

Working on fine motor. 

The wooden skewers were from Target.

The wok and food are from Learning Resources.

Cupcake game with letters and beginning sounds.

Make a sandwich. 

I am working on finding the cards.

Yeti in my Spaghetti

Noodle Knockout

Pie sorting.

Cookie letters.

They can spell their classmates names.

Pancake pile up.

Magnets from Target.

I call these M&M letters.

Pop the Pig

Very sparse shelves.

We will add Thanksgiving books with these:

Harvest Stew

Me and My Body

We sorted the cards (in the blue bin)

baby, child, and adult during our science lesson.

Then I place it in the science center.

On the purple board, I hang word cards.