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.

Nocturnal Animals

New unit calls for new pointers:

either from Dollar Tree or Bullseye's Playground

I have two bookshelves, one in my loft and one on my main level. I have nocturnal books along with books on shapes as part of our calendar.

 As I do with most units, I read a letter.

Grab some word cards here.

Using all the stars mini erasers.

Printables from HERE.

spider counting

possum counting

spikey hedgehog

Cover the letter with more star mini erasers

Read write and build

I added blue markers and some spiders because I can't find my bats lol

Measuring animals

pattern blocks

Here is what's going on in our science center:

printables here.

In one lesson we talk about the cards:

We did this as a transition activity and then

it goes into the science center.

In another lesson, we labeled a bat.

We use that blue sticky tac.

We sorted these cards on diurnal/ nocturnal animals like this:

we did it as a science lesson and then into the science center.

After we talk about them, they go into our science center.

In one of our sensory bins, we made Shape Stew from here.

I couldn't find any nocturnal animals for the block center, 

so I printed these from HERE.

In our fine motor journals, we made spiders one day.

The following day we made spider webs:

I draw mine first and then the children trace mine.

It was also octagon day too lol

This is our writing center

Night Stew from HERE

Here are our morning bins:

We are reviewing shapes and working on fine motor with the clothespins.

The following cards are from here.

We used this spider web from HERE.

Kids write their names, one letter on each square.

One must put the whipped cream on top of my pumpkin pie from HERE.

Here we are adding play dough for the feathers.

We are tracing letters form to build muscle memory to form letters.

These are colorful head-scratchers.

I think I used Model Magic for the pot part.

I added the number cube for added fun.

Roll the number cube and place that many beads on the wires.