Monday, August 24, 2026

✨ Spotlight Saturday ✨

 

✨ Spotlight Saturday ✨ 

🌈Colors Book🌈





Color Book Craft – Interactive Class Book for Learning Colors

Make learning colors fun and interactive with this hands-on craftivity! Students will color items to match each color word, cut them out, and glue them onto a page. When finished, bind all the pages together to create a class color book that your students will love reading again and again!

🌈 Colors Included:

  • Red
  • Orange
  • Yellow
  • Green
  • Blue
  • Purple
  • Pink
  • Gray
  • Black
  • White

πŸ“˜ What’s Inside:

  • One page per color with the sentence starter: “These things can be ___.”
  • Multiple pictures for students to color and glue to match the featured color
  • A simple and engaging activity that reinforces color recognition, fine motor skills, and early literacy

πŸ‘©‍🏫 How to Use:

  1. Introduce one color at a time.
  2. Students color the items, cut them out, and glue them onto the matching page.
  3. Compile each student’s pages into their own book OR combine the whole class’s work into one class book to read in your classroom library!

🌟 Perfect for:

  • Preschool, Pre-K, and Kindergarten
  • Back to School activities
  • Centers or small group work
  • Early finishers
  • Interactive bulletin boards or class displays

Your students will be so proud to see their contributions in a real book they helped create!

Monday, August 17, 2026

✨ Spotlight Saturday ✨ Color of Friends

✨ Spotlight Saturday ✨





πŸ’œThis week's Kinderpond featured item is our Color of Friends! πŸ’œ


Created for Pre-K, Kindergarten & First Grade, this classroom-tested resource makes learning fun, engaging, and easy to prep. Perfect for your frog themed classroom!


πŸ“š Follow along every Saturday as we feature a new Kinderpond resource to help your little learners grow.


πŸ’¬ What would you like to see featured next?


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Monday, August 10, 2026

All About the Dice

 I got my very first TikTok sample!!!!



First off it comes in this adorable container!!  

I didn't want to wreck it, so I opened it from the bottom :)

Anyways, as a 4 year old kindergarten teacher, 

I needed to come up with ways to use them in my classroom. 

When I introduce a new area in my room or a new supply,

I read a Pip the Pup

In this case, I will get the Dot Cube




Here are a few that I've come up with


Y'all when I was grabbing all the links... I made the dang thing myself lol

Shark Roll and Cover:


I add foam dice and those "chips" are sort of like poker chips.
I don't actually know what they are lol
Real buttons work too :)

I cut out egg shapes, but any die cuts would work.
I wrote numbers on it but you could
roll a dice and punch that many times. 
 


Found HERE:


I found a deal on egg poppers, so grab any fidget poppers,
pom-poms, dice, and tongs.
Roll the dice, 
pop that many poppers down and then add poms on top. 
I added the tongs for added practice.


Roll and cover. 
We rolled a dice and covered the number rolled 
with a mini eraser.  My sheet aka gameboard, goes to 20.




Adding dice to this for additional practice.
Roll the dice and add that many beads to the pipe cleaners


Roll dice and add that many counters to a spot in the ice cube tray.



I have a ton of fill in games.
For little learners, I have them color each item, for older learners, they could write the number they rolled on each item. For example, on the pencils fill in.
little learners color in 4 pencils if they rolled a 4. 
Older learners will roll and write the number 4 in one pencil. Then roll again, repeat!







Number Trays from Dollar Tree












Monday, August 3, 2026

Shapes and Colors, Oh My!



I can't find my exact set.
It will be a bummer if I ever lose one! :( 

We do a color of the day as part of our calendar.
Each day is a different color.
Each day, I put up a new poster.
When I start school, the walls are blank on purpose.

Read about our color board HERE.
Read about our color table HERE



After we do color of the day, we do shape of the day.

We start with the shape of the day board.
Read about that HERE.

Before we do journals, I give them a piece of paper.
I think it is about 1/8 of an 8x11 sheet.
I tell them to "frost the cookie"
we try to use the whole piece because no one wants a small cookie!
I cut out shapes from construction paper wrote the name of the shape on it.
We taped the "cookie shapes" on top.
Thats it!