Beginning of the Year: Centers and Morning Work

Beginning of the year centers and morning work.

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These are in out centers.

These are from Target. This is a morning bin choice.

Family counters in our morning bins, which are really drawers lol

Snapcubes

Snap Cube Cards

morning work

Chains

Option 1

Option 2

Centers

A close match for teddy bears.

Centers

Centers and morning work

Centers puzzles

 think they are from Carson Dellosa about a million years ago.

I have these frogs!

I bought them years and years ago.

There are three sizes of frogs.

Many colors and logs that the small frogs can sit on.

There are cards, too, so the kids can follow the patterns

They start in morning bins and move to centers.

Week 2: Morning Bins

 

Last week, we just had the "toys."

This week, I added the cards.

I still can't find a link to these :( 

Was I supposed to use these??? No, and it messed 

up my whole schedule grrrrr

A bonus, though, I made cards!!

I will get them posted soon! 

They are definitely from Tara West, but I am unable to locate them :(

I think they are from Carson Dellosa about a million years ago.

I have these frogs!

I bought them years and years ago.

There are three sizes of frogs.

Many colors and logs that the small frogs can sit on.

There are cards, too, so the kids can follow the patterns.

Morning Work and Centers

 

How I do morning work:

Each child has their own labeled drawer.  Each drawer has a number on it (guess I need to find an updated photo). The number edge is color-coded. I drew the number and color on the sides.)

Hop back next week, and I will try to have an updated photo of the drawers, along with something new to share as well.  I have to test it out this week.

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: