September Morning Work

 

Grab these fun bears here.

Target puzzles

Target blocks

Week Two: morning bins

Week one is just plain toys,

In week two I added elements.

pattern block sheets

I ask them to try to do their ages 4 or 5.

Frogs

Bears

Cubes

 

First Week of School Morning Work

 The first week of school is always so much work, you are teaching so many procedures and rules. So I start with things that they typically have used before or that don't need much explanation.

Check your classroom for toys that will work. I have used snap cubes, pattern blocks, chain links, Unifix cubes, and teddy bears, this is all super low prep, find and put inside a drawer.

In week two, I add something to the drawer. Check back next week for our week two centers.

Beginning of the year centers

 I do a gradual release of our centers. Most of them start in our morning bins, which is free explore then continues with adding "something".  

Hop over here to check out our morning bins.

See the play dough sign in the white bin?

That is the same bin that I use to 

collect the play dough at my open house!

I used mini erasers in a bucket from Dollar Tree 

The cards came from here.

These are those large puzzle blocks from Target.

I don't add anything to these (yet)

After we have a small group to get Pip certified

we can explore at centers time.

Grab  mats  here.

Learning Resources Houses

Learning Resources people

t-shirts from here.

This is another small group.

We roll the number cubes and add that many chips

to the shirts. Check out her post here for the shirts.

counting bears

They are 50% off now!!! This is a better deal!!

Target puzzles from our morning bins.

Counting bears 

with sorting cups and a color dice

large buttons- I just let them explore.

You could have them sort by color or shape though!

These centers last about two weeks of school.

September Learning

 Here are our centers this week:

Here's Pip the Pup holding the mini erasers.

They use their fingers to place the mini erasers on the line.

Grab the cards HERE.

How they fit in my bins:

Hashtag puzzles from Target

Playdough mats from HERE. 

We have these cool family counters and homes.

They are from Learning Resources.

People houses

Groovy Buttons Game

Hunny Pot Bears

Target Puzzles

Counting Bears and Cups

We sorted these buttons as a transition activity.

The students chose one button and matched it with another one,

Either by the same color or the same shape.

How we store them:

Let the 2023-2024 School Year begin!!

 I am still reeling from the 100% of parents attending the open house :)

During our first week of school, we had these for morning bins.

I have these colorful frogs I bought so long ago, but I love them!

Another drawer are chains.

Pattern blocks

Teddy bears :) 

Yes these are borrowed 

It is just free play the first week of school.

They have all had the toys before, so nothing new,

well, accept the frogs but they're cool!

Week 1 Morning Work

Stay tuned for next week! 

Read more here:

2022

Week in Review: Bears

Salt Shaker

Color Sorting buttons

Thumbs Down if they don't make the correct pattern.

With my handy dandy spinner!

Feed the bear. I couldn't find a lunch bag lol 

These are our felt shapes with a little brown piece is the bear 

that we hide behind the shape.

They came from Target.

I made this alphabet bottle-- the letters were too big lol

I bought new letter beads at Dollar Tree.

Gummy bear letter fill.

Teddy Bear picnic. 

Beary rhyming

I turned my pocket chart sideways and went from there.

I have no idea where the 10 frames went...

These charts came from Dollar Tree.

We tossed a bean bag. If the bean bag didn't land on a letter, 

we read the letter that it was closest to.

We used regular sized clothes pins for a change.

Here we used the coconut bra from Dollar Tree for 

our bear caves lol

We did what was on the blue cube as many times as the number on the green cube.

Invisible letters

I didn't have parchment paper, so I used waxed paper.

It took a bit to get all of the paper off.

I used about 3ish mini-glue sticks.

Here was the Dollar Tree experiment.

They are about the size of a quarter, but not as wide.

We "grew" them in a plastic cup.

They took up most of the cup.

Pretty impressive.

There are 2 or 3 more packs in there.

Gummy bear science

Water made the bubbles.

Vinegar made the red one expand.

Salt made one shrink.