✨ 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

📘 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

👩‍🏫 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!

Color of the Day Trays- Part 2

Color of the day trays part 1 

There is a white tray too, apparently I didn't snap a photo :( 

It was pretty pathetic, like the black tray.

I added these squeeze mazes. 

I added these after I remembered that I had them lol

Also, as part of our color unit, we colored in these:

Color of the day Update

Color of the Day

 Here's our learning board- make-over addition lol

We use this board all the time for all the different

things!   It began here and changes for different items.

I start with colors and move to shapes, names, letters, and more.

Read about that HERE.

It's a tri-fold board.

Poem found HERE and HERE.

Crayons are from the whole pack.

Frog posters HERE

Poem HERE (I saved them, but now it appears you need to request permission.)  I will try to find the author/link for you.

Blue poem

color maps here, I post them on the board, and we add things that are that color and 

then I put it in my color binder. Watch the video at the end of the post.

The green stickers are from Target. See that post here.

Grab the coloring sheets here.

Calm Down Time

 Each month, I change out tools in our calm-down area. 

Take a look at my area HERE.

I kept the two books there the whole time. I also 

have a library shelf available with books.

I needed to come up with some monthly breathing exercises 

to change out each month as well.

Hop over here to grab a free sample.

When I first introduced this to my students this year, someone in the next classroom was really struggling with their emotions.

One of my students said that they needed to do some "turkey breathing."

I did chuckle a bit because I had just made it up for our class.

I then agreed with them that our neighbor indeed needed to do some 

"turkey breathing" :) 

Check out the video:

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

All Aboard the Kinderpond Express

 

I haven't made the transportation stew, so I chose Construction Stew.

Floor puzzles and wooden puzzles

Transportation stencils and directed drawings.

Felt Sets from Target

Wooden cars and signs from Target

I made roads from road tape and sentence strips.

Then I laminated them.

These are close- mine aren't labeled.

Magnet sets from Target

Street shapes and play dough cards

Gingerbread Centers

Gingerbread Centers

 Stew

Pip Gingerbread

GB Pokey Pins

Felt board gb set

Melissa & Doug GB House

Cookie Cutters and mats

Candy Construction set

Hot Cocoa Count

"dog" toys

Gumdrop Gumdrop

Gumdrop colors

Counting Gumdrops

Gumdrop bundle

Cinnamon Oatmeal

There are funnels

scoops

gb mini erasers (pink cup)

(Not pictured: pink and purple letters)

Beginning work

Swapping out food and nutrition items

Pointers

GB Book