Ice cream work

During our ice cream unit

mini-unit

We read these books

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In our morning bins, we did these:

We made some ice cream patterns 

We wrote some theme words.

I display all the words in our writing center.

The students chose 4 or 5 words depending on their age.

They draw their pictures to go with the words.

I keep these theme words all school year and 

then add them to our portfolios :)

Both of those papers are from the file above :)

At the Ice cream shop

How it starts....

 

Here are the two books we read these help 

with the procedures, you need to run an ice cream shop.

Ice Cream Adventures with Pip

Betsy Eats Some Ice Cream from Play To Learn Preschool

I "closed" the shop lol

This is so the children can listen to

*how we treat the items

*jobs to have 

i.e. the guidelines we need to follow

I bought this cute apron from Target.

This printable as well as others are from HERE.

Popsicles from Target

Cones from different play sets.

Most of the bowls were from a 

giveaway from Play to Learn Preschool

The pink dishes in the front were from Dollar Tree.

I think the tall cups and the small ice cream

cups came from Dollar Tree too.

This fabric cover came from Target.

These bins are from Dollar Tree

the empty ones were filled with pom-poms.

Different felt sets from Target.

Here is the video I made (did I change it after I filmed it? Yes lol

Ice Cream Centers

 Here are some of the books we used during our unit:

These were brand new this year and a huge hit!

These are our ice cream gameboards. 

There is a 10-frame under the mini erasers.

These are found HERE.

This is how I store my Stews.

A simple ziploc bag.

Get your Stews HERE.

This is the Stew all put together.

I used large pom poms for the ice cream, I used 

fun foam for the bananas and chocolate syrup.

I used beads for the sprinkles.

Here are our mixing bowls and ice cream scoops for the stews.

The bowls and green scoop is from Dollar Tree.

The blue scoop is from an ice cream set.

We are making popsicles HERE.

I used half pipe cleaners.

Here we are making patterns on a pocket chart.

These are from HERE.

Here are our play dough mats.

Emotions HERE.

Shapes HERE.

Number Subitizing HERE.

Ice Cream Shop sundae HERE.

One day, we practiced making waffle cones.

One day we practiced making scoops.

On this day, we put them together and

used crepe paper and glue sticks.

This was part of our fine motor journals.

More May Bins and Journals

 During our nursery rhymes unit, we also celebrated a birthday. 

So we drew rectangles and added a flame.

 

We are making cakes today!

We talked about different lines we could 

make on our cakes to decorate them :)

At the end of the lesson,

I ask if they want a

*Heart

*Star

*Smiley Face

It's a smelly marker :)

pre-k through 5th graders love them!!

We practice writing our names each day.

Then today we made moons and I gave them each 4 star stickers.

Spider day!

We did Itsy Bitsy Spider

Little Miss Muffet

Today was Humpty Dumpty

We drew horizontal lines.

Then I showed LEGO tower that was stacked

then showed them when they were staggered.

Here are our morning bins:

Scissor skills

Theme Words

Ice Cream Names

Glue Stick practice

Monthly Scissor Skills

Theme Words

For each theme, the children use the writing center

with word cards to write and illustrate.

Ice Cream names HERE.

We are practicing our glue stick skills.

We usually use glue sponges.

This is how the drawer for the kids looks: