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:

Shirts

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.

Shark color

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

🌵🏜️Wild West Centers🏜️🌵

 🌵🏜️Wild West Centers🏜️🌵

There are three versions of this write the room.

All caps, lowercase, and blank

plain clipboards

Armadilli Chili

I grabbed a ladle from Dollar Tree.

I didn't have beans, so I used pumpkin seeds.

I Googled cowboy hat

The boot came from HERE.

Shape lasso

I used yellow and brown pipe cleaners to make the shapes.

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Gold pan letters.

I filled these with sand, and the kids just picked a "gold"

letter and wrote in the sand.

The pan came from Dollar Tree.

I bought two of these from Walmart.

Then they squeezed them and blew the "tumbleweeds" across the table.

I added a marker to trace on the gameboards.

Mini-popsicle sticks.

We did this as small groups, too.

We got to use yellow markers.

we don't get to use yellow often.

I use yellow markers so they can

"Follow the yellow brick road."

All  the printables (except the cowboy hat) came from 

HERE.

We have three bookshelves.

We learned that there can be PURPLE tarantulas!!!

We make 4/5 items depending on our age.

We also made 4/5 different colored horseshoes, bandanas, and more.

I will need to take photos.

I need some ideas for a Western Menu.

Like rattlesnake Bites,

Scorpion Skewers

Cactus Blossoms

What else can you come up with?

Winter Centers

Winter Centers

sn*w and ice magnatiles- not a big hit at all this year, no one used them!

I swapped it out with something in week two.

I think they were from Target.

Play-Doh with cookie cutters and mats.

Here are some play-dough mats $ for them to use:

More HERE $ 

Wooden houses and a truck from Target.

stuffies- mostly from Dollar Tree

We are using these as reading buddies :)

Cubes for a light table.

The box is from Dollar Tree and they are sn*wflakes.

plain white felt sn*wmen at the bottom

decorated sn*wmen 

sn*wmen ornaments from Target.

Paper punches, white crayons, and colored pencils- 

not a big hit either, swapped it out week 2.

Ten frames with sn*wflakes from a past KinderCrate.

I added felt numbers to match.

sn*wmen have magnets on the back for our magnet center.

Number guide from Tara West.

These were our snowmen math magnet game.$

In the white bin

I drew the faces on the cups.

The snowballs were from Target, I think.

The cups just sit in a bin, and the kids toss yarn  pom-poms

into them and call out the number they sank the pom-pom.

Besides our fine motor table, I added these trays.

These are super small trays.

I have a bag for each number.

Yellow tray- random cards- I have zero idea where they came from.

Blue tray- Number Blocks cards from a set. 

Number cards from some people I bought this summer.

(Blog post upcoming)

Red Tray~ textured cards from Target and sandpaper cards from FB Marketplace.

Pink Tray~ From Hands2Mind

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Color of the Day Part 1

Read about the crayons HERE.

Fidget pack HERE.

Morning Bins: April

Monthly Portraits, and scissors skills. 

Pom-poms

Lego bricks from Dollar Tree

Cards from HERE.

During journals, 

we did a different things to recyclables.

Today was glass.

Three baby food jars, a mason jar which we reused to store our googly eyes, and

a brown bottle of Orange Crush.  On the metal day, we used the bottle cap from it.

Recycling Unit

 We start off with this song, and it gets stuck in your head!

Recycle

Mini erasers with cards

Unifix cubes to measure

Earth Day patterns

Light table

Learning Resources

Glass beads and Earth 

Headband

QT art

Books for the unit

We read this book and made the classbook too!

This was for journals.

We practice our names the "kindergarten way"

We brainstormed shapes of recyclables could be.

I added these things to our sensory bin- 

things for compost and things to recycle.

I put real objects in the table too.

Small metal containers as well as some small plastic ones.

I need to add some paper, plastic, and metal items.

I was thinking of those mini brands things.

The filling is clean, new pet bedding.

During journals we made a paper collage.

I brought out a bunch of different kinds of paper.

The students cut or tore the paper.

We traced recycle in blue, green, and our favorite colors :)

Printable here. 

We also used the word cards from that unit as well.

That's coming in our morning bins post :)

We write our names the "kindergarten way"

The letter of the day was Dd (we write it 4 times because we're four)

We read Compost stew and brainstormed things that would go into our compost.

Our Recycling Science Center