Kinderpond dives into the Ocean

 As we finish up our last few weeks of school, we are going to the ocean!

Here is one sensory bin with Kinetic sand.

This is 3 big bags of sand. We found them for $1.25 each!

Wooden toys from Target for the blocks center.

Balance toys from Target.

Fish ice cube trays from Dollar Tree.

Add dice and pom-poms or mini erasers.

Stuffies for reading

Felt sets from Target.

Poppers from Dollar Tree

We are going to measure how far they travel.

Lacers- I think from Target.

Another felt set from Target.

Felt memory set from Target 

Sea x-rays for the light table.

Items for the light table.

I think the jewels were from Big Lots.

Even if you don't have a light table, you can use them.

I didn't have a light table when I bought them ;) 

Here are rubbing plates from Dollar Tree.

Felt play set.

Here is a whale puzzle from Target.

Ocean animals I think I will add this to the sensory bin with rice.

Same rice from dental health unit :)

Here is where and what I got for this unit over at 

Kinderpond: where the teacher shops

Here are our calm down squishies 

Hungry Dolphins-

the blue circle thing- is kind of like a wok, it doesn't sit flat.

The children grab the color balls and put in the colored cups on the side.

Here are some of my books:

more books in anther room

May Morning Bins

We are practicing with glue sticks here.

These came from Play to Learn Preschool

We read the glue stick book from Pip first of course lol

You pick a card and make a butterfly.

Pick a card and make a flower.

Pick a card and make a caterpillar.

Counting mats with butterfly mini erasers.

frog mini-erasers

pom-pom caterpillars

Frogs on a log.

We've used these frogs before, now I added the cards. 

The cards get harder. There are three different levels.

Basic seen below.

Some are missing the last frogs.

Some are different sizes.

May in Kinderpond- insect edition

 We kicked off our insect unit by getting a letter and a name tag for being entomologists in training!

This year, I added little paper critters that we are gluing in our bug collection.

Each day, we read a letter from that bug.

We draw that bug (we aren't doing the grasshopper or praying mantis- 

they are a little too difficult for all my children.)

We have school 4 days a week.  We journal all 4 days, 

but on the last day, we have totally free choice.

On regular days we have a two-page spread.

One side is for me and then the second side is for them.

They need to draw whatever they'd like using as many colors 

as they are old. Thank you Dr. Jean for that!

We did a directed drawing of a ladybug.

They can be four colors: black, orange, yellow, and red.

They can have spots or stripes!!

Bug stew from Pocket of Preschool

We took plastic bugs, nets, magnifying lenses, tongs, and a box.

We added them to grass ... Easter grass in the sensory bin.

Butterfly dominoes

Playdough stampers and mats.

The white ones came from Naier- check all my purchases. 

Fabric bugs

Flannel board pieces.

Here's a matching game.

Pick a toy bug and match it with the cardboard bug.

Magnet puzzle.

Pattern block bugs.

Ladybugs

I took a green craft stick with numbers on it.

The children clip that many clips on the green leaf.

Some clips are red and some I drew a ladybug on :)

These are for the light table.

The dragonflies are from Dollar Tree.

They were on a string of lights and I just popped them off lol

The creepy crawlies I think may glow in the dark.

The letters came from Target.

These bugs are HUGE. About the size of my hand!

They are in blocks area.

These are awesome for the insect unit- normally might put them in the calm down area.

These cutouts came from Dollar Tree.

I wrote a letter on each one.  

They made a match with a fly.

Then the partner would call out a letter and they would swat them!

This is a bottle drying rack lol

Children use tongs to pick up bugs and put them back in.

This is another sensory table.

Roll one of the number cubes.

Put that many bees (mini erasers) or pom-poms into the beehive.

This is our science center.

Here are more bugs and insects.

You can see our ladybug habitat.

There is paper and pencils to draw what they observe.