January Morning Bins

 Here are our morning bins for the first two weeks:

Hot Cocoa names

Ice cube patterns HERE.

Sn*wball letters

Trace with your finger

trace with a marker- wet-erase

write with the marker

Week two:

Sn*wflakes FREE!!!!!

Polar Bears

match the beads to the bellies of the bears

Theme words from Pocket of Preschool's polar animals pack.

Pick 4/5 words to illustrate

Punches time!

January Morning bins

 Here are our morning bins

Name craft. $

Ice Cube Patterns $

These are not the same but an option $

Theme letters $ 

These are craft sticks and colorful bands.

They put the number of bands as the stick says.

Morning Work: January week 1

Last week we had ONE day of school... ummm what??? Insert pajama day and a hot chocolate party!! We put chocolate milk into a crockpot and turned it on low... yep that's it!!!!!!!!!!!!  We added marshmallows, whipped topping, and sprinkles.

Each year I give my students personalized mugs. Read that post here.  

We only had three days of school before break, so we had an extra bin, so we did that bin on our one day back lol

Here are the bins this week:

I went old school and wrote on a craft stick, numeral, number word, and dots.

Children will slide small rubber bands onto the stick matching the number of

ands to the number on the sticks.

I challenge my students to see how many they can fill up.

It makes them actively engaged in the activity.

I got those bands at Oriental Trading

I got a multi-pack, but here are links for

blue

purple

white

This empty drawer is not really empty lol

It has design a mitten from 

Differentiated Kindergarten 

Working on fine motor with q-tips and paint!

I thought the kids would care about the letters on top,

but yeah, they don't lol

I grabbed these winter pony beads here.

Lacing with a pipe cleaner is much easier.

String snowflakes also from Oriental Trading.

I bought them on clearance at the end of the season.

Thankfully, we have snow until at least March lol

Pipe Cleaners

Dramatic Play: Coffee Shop

We had a coffee/hot drink shop in January.

We were supposed to only have it for two weeks... but 

we had four bad weather days in two weeks lol 

We always had the workers... we always needed customers!

They all had fun... only wish some of the coffee was real!

W is for Winter... penguins too!

Learning Board-

Letter N

Color  Gold

Shape-hexagon

Numeral- 18


Name Practice

Monday-

Story: Biggest Snowball Fight

Poem: Snowball Fight, letter style

Alphabet Study: Penguin Beginning Sound

Letters from the Alphabet

Fine Motor: Marshmallows and hot chocolate use any/all tongs

Science: Hot Chocolate Stem

Math: Patterns

Art: Q-tip mitten

Writing: Tracing Cards

Theme/Life Skills: Snowman Stew

Tuesday

Story: Snowman for Little Bear

Poem: Snow Pokey

Alphabet Study:Alphabet Video
Here are tons to choose from on my Alphabet Video Board

Fine Motor: Eraser Patterns

Science: Bubbles Outside
It is cold in my neck of the world, so we are going to blow some bubbles outside.

Math: Blue and white/clear Water beads

number cube

cookie cutter

Roll and add that many colors to your cookie cutter.

You could do those dice in dice.

Using a blue double dice, add that many blue ones and look at the one inside to the white cookie cutter.  

OR

roll a blue dice and a white dice and add that many blue ones and that many white ones.

Art: Melted Snowman

Writing: Writing Sandbox letters
snowman beads or clear/frosted beads or erasers

Theme/Life Skills: Snowball Tower
Snowball (a rolled up white sock would work too)
Blue cups Dollar Tree

Build a cup tower and knock down the cups.

You could:
write letters one it- they could get a point if they could name the letter.
write numbers on it- they could get a point if they could name the number.
write math problem on it- they could get a point if they could say the answer.
write words on it- they could get a point if they could name the word. 

Thursday

Story: Elmer in the Snow

Poem: Chant

Alphabet Study: Penguin upper and lowercase

Fine Motor: Play dough shapes

Science: Snow Dough 
use what we made a few weeks ago- add additional items:
*glass beads
*ice cubes from break the ice
*play dough letter stamps
*play dough shapes

Math: Shake Up Games:
We will do number recognition.

Use a  mini marshmallow for the Hot Cocoa one
snowman eraser, 
penguin eraser
snowflake eraser

Hot Cocoa

Snowman

Snowflake

Penguin

Art: Cupcake snowflakes

Writing: Penguin Pull and Trace

Theme/Life Skills: Scissor Skills

Friday

Story: Snowy Day

Poem: Snowy Day Activity

Alphabet Study: Feed the Fish

Fine Motor: Pokey Pin

Science: Target Tube
Last week we did the snow, you can watch the video in our week in review.
So this week we will do the cubes with polar bear.

Math: Ping pong balls  
Grabber
Ping pong balls

We will be doing number recognition :)
She did number comparisons.

Art: Warm heart, cold hands (broken link)

Writing: Tara West Letter Tracing

Theme/Life Skills: Penguin Number Sense

Shopping List:
Hot chocolate
Mini Marshmallows


Snowman Stew ingredients Q-tips cupcake liners
Mini erasers
Bubbles
Water beads blue & white
Blue cups
Ping Pong balls