Week 3 and 4

Morning  bins:

I added picture cards from Tara West

Different lacers from Bullseye's Playground at Target.

Remember when I used teddy bears in morning bins?

Well, they leave our morning bins and head to our centers.

I added the sorting cups and bear cube as well.

Here is our birthday kit for pretend.  We have a bowl there already, but no eggs 

I think the eggs walk away lol

and a birthday cake from Melissa & Doug.

I got these color tubes from WalMart.

Learning Resources are super expensive and currently not in stock.

Pete the Cat button shirt game from Pocket of Preschool.

We played this game in small groups and then to centers!

This paint palette is from Planning Playtime.

You use a paintbrush to move pom-poms onto the colors.

Also from Planning Playtime

You add buttons and cubes.

These puzzles are from Tara West.

I punched them at the top and for storage on a ring.

I put different puzzles in each container.

Here are the hashtag puzzle pieces from Target.

These were once in our morning bins and now in our centers.

We had a color scavenger hunt.

I put in pencil top erasers from Dollar Tree and crayon erasers in a spot too.

The kids had a fabulous time hunting for color items in the room.

This was our first Stew from Pocket of Preschool.

Morning work rotation 3

Morning bins let's say week three lol

People from Learning Resources

remember the first week, we just explore the items.

I got mine on Amazon.

Target puzzles

Snap cubes

So next rotation, there will be cards for the family people and the snap cubes.

I haven't even gotten into everything else!

We have been busy working!!! Not "playing" lol

Do my students ask every day if they can play? Yes. I tell them we work!

Playing is work when you're 4 and 5.

 

Weeks 1 and 2

 We started school on a Wednesday and day two was Thursday. We don't have school on Fridays!!

Here are our morning bins.

We rotate daily.

Our first bins were these exact toys- minus the cards.

We play first- I mean we explore the tools first.

In the next rotation, I added the cards- it's not like a week, but sort of it is :)

We go to school 4 days a week and we only have three rotations, last year, I had 5 lol 

The year before, I had 4, it was perfect!

 

When we are done with these morning bins, they go into our centers.

I have a 9 cube shelf, that we store our centers on.

They know how to use these toys correctly, they can play.

I use a Pip the Pup book to introduce pretty much everything in my classroom.

It's how I plan my small group lessons to start with too!

One of my students told me "We don't get to use it unless you teach us how to use it first!"

Such a smartie!!

We introduced pretend and library the first day. I had help :) 

On day 2 we explored blocks. 

We could play in pretend or read in the library while half were in blocks with me.

We are having so much fun!!!!

Not too many photos to share, those have my students faces to share with families :)

Hopping into a new year 2021-2022 school year!!

Here is a VERY simplified look at our day:

It is going to be an AMAZING year!!!!!!!