Thanksgiving

 We start all of our units with a letter. The kids love opening letters!

These letters get the children excited about the new unit. It introduces new words. These word cards then go into the writing center. 

Same centers this week with the addition of this muffin game.

You could add a number cube. Then roll both the color and number of muffins.

I couldn't find a use for those turkeys until I got this game out.

This was my transition activity.

I use transition activities to space out

our hand washing time.

Sometimes it's verbal.

In this case, I put the cards out on the table upside down.

I called on the children to come and pick up a card.

They flipped the card and put a turkey on the shape that matched.

When I have a "game" that doesn't have as many pieces,

I stop near the end of the "game" and add those used 

pieces back so they can be picked again.

After we play this "game" I put it in centers, so they can play it again!

The following week is short, we are out Thursday and Friday for Thanksgiving.

Our morning bins are: 

*scissor skills

*monthly self-portraits

* name puzzles

Trace with a highlighter for our monthly scissor skills practice:

These name puzzles are from HERE.  We are going to practice spelling our names and then we will glue them to make a name tent for our Thanksgiving feast. This is harder than you think for 4/5-year-olds!

The kids loved putting their names up... but they kept falling down grrrrrrr.

Our monthly family projects

(PS I do have more kids)

We did a directed drawing.

Like step by step. We are still working :)

You can get fancy and add different 

patterns for the feathers.

In one small group, we made these pie slices.

I cut paper plates into quarters. 

I added pumpkin pie spices to the paint. 

We painted the crust brown and the pie orange.

 I punched holes in the pie and the 

tag and attached them with pipe cleaners!!! 

The tag came from @polka.dots.please.

Grab the printable HERE.

This is a fabulous book to read before you

paint the children's hands!

Nutrition Week 2

Here were some of our books:

Donut cards

Cookie Letters

Action shot!

Morning Bins:

These three are HERE.

Tracing cards HERE.

The last one- which took forever lol

from HERE.

During science, we did a food group a day.

We filled out this chart:

Later we drew items in our journals.

Nutrition Week 1

 Halloween Monday! I will let you know how it went next week lol

This game is from THIS SET.

You take out one and the class has to tell

you what color and what item.

Morning Bins

Geoboards there are two sets Set 1 Set 2

Lacers from Target

I used a head-scratcher and I think Model-Magic

and stuck it in those little pots.

There is a clear dish with beads that the

children will "lace" onto the 'branches'

Turkey Feather Colors

from HERE.

Our centers this week all focus on nutrition and food.

We're going to play Yeti in Spaghetti

Cupcake Toppers

I pulled out the letters of my students' names

and the corresponding picture pick.

Nutrition 2016

Nutrition Plans 2017

Week in review

Nutrition Plans 2020

Nutrition Plans 2021