April Morning Bins

 Here are this week's morning bins:

Tracing egg lines came from here.

Play dough cards from here.

Carrot tracing

Here are my bookshelves:

April Morning Bins

 This week in morning bins we have:

Trace Cards

Easter Cards

Snap Cubes

I think these are lawn decorations.

Find what else I bought HERE.

I gave them ribbons for them to lace through the spots. 

The one below is from HERE $

I found this one for free HERE.

Spring Centers

Here is one of three book displays this year: 

Sensory bin 1

Eggs, tongs, and large egg holders.

Sensory bin 2

Pom-poms 

printables HERE

From the Pond coloring pages.

I drew a heart and a line at the bottom for their names.

Light table

mini polka dots cups

transparent eggs

and see-through shapes 

all from the Dollar Tree

the cups and eggs are recent, the small shapes in the container are

 ummmm let's go with over 20 years lol

Magnet sets from Target.

Egg-shaped chalk on black paper.

White-colored pencil to write our names.

Felt puppet theaters from Target's Bullseye's Playground.

Carrot, chick/duck? bunny fill

oh plus mini erasers and a number cube.

Roll the number cube and add that many mini erasers to the containers

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Here are full-sized polka-dot cups.

Just like the small ones for the light table.

We are building with these in the blocks area.

Here are some hopping bunnies.

I put out brown paper.

The children hop the bunnies to the brown paper.

A wooden train set. 

Looking carefully, you can see the top of the very narrow tree.

That lasted 2.2 seconds before someone broke it off.

These are silicone baking trays.

I used a number cube and mini erasers for a math game.

Wooden items for the blocks center.

Playdough center.

The cookie cutters were on clearance from last season lol

shop smart people!!!

Egg cups

Found at Target, but not in Bulleye's Playground.

We used these bunny tongs to put eggs in the above egg cups.

Plastic/vinyl finger puppets

Spring Has Sprung in the Kinderpond

Learning Board-

Words:

Color orange

Shape- any for review

Numbers 55-58


Name Practice-Binder, however, I have these eggs in my store that we used last year.  I printed and wrote with a marker- so high tech lol

Monday-

Story: Pete the Cat

Poem:  Grid Game

Word Study:  Bunny Rabbits (free)

Fine Motor:  Egg Tong Egg Sort. I am going to add letters so we can also build words we know.

Science: Peep 5 Senses 

Math: Egg/Chick/Bunny erasers

Art: Decorate eggs

Writing: Colored Sugar

Theme/Life Skills: Easter Stew
We really love making stews :)

Tuesday

Story:

Poem: Hunting Eggs

Word Study: Peep Letter and Sound Match

Fine Motor: Easter Stickers. (The point is fine motor, not anything else, give them a piece of paper and have at it :)

Science: Build with eggs.                   Build with eggs and play doh!

 

Math: Spring Addition

Art: My Letter Book

Writing: Wikki Sticks or pipe cleaners

Using materials provided, make words or letters you are working on.
Here is a printable I might use.

Theme/Life Skills: Non-standard Measuring


Chicks

Carrots

Carrot Tops

Bunnies


Dust Bunnies

Ducks

Thursday

Story: QR Codes$

Poem:  5 Bunnies

Word Study: Syllable Sort

Fine Motor: Hole Punch
If you don't want to number the eggs, you could add two dice here and have them roll the dice and punch that many punches.

Science: Peep Science

Math: Spin and Graph. There are two:  bunnies and cookies :)

Art:  Triangle Paper from Play to Learn (click for the video)

Writing: Play dough
use the words or letters you are working on and stamp them out.

Theme/Life Skills: Jelly Bean Jars I am going to add magnets to the back for added fun.

Friday

Story:

Poem: Carpet Games

Word Study: Egg Rhymes

Fine Motor: Straw necklace

Science: STEM build a bunny house

Math: Peep Numbers 

Art: Play dough sheets

Writing: Write our words for the week. I might get fancy with this and print something out, or I may just write with a yellow marker to trace ;) 

I am currently working on something just perfect for this!  Stay tuned :)

Theme/Life Skills: Eggs with mini erasers

Past units

Easter 2015
Easter 2016
Easter 2017

Shopping List:

Plastic Eggs

Egg Tongs (I grabbed mine at Wal-Mart)

Peeps (I am doing 3 different colors but it doesn't really matter)
Colored Sugar
I grabbed my un-decorated eggs at Target
Easter/Spring Stickers (Dollar Tree/Target)
Wikki Sticks
Hole Punch (Walmart)
Straws (Dollar Tree/Target)

Items for Easter Stew

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