Sept/October Morning Bins

Pumpkin Patch Count

I added the dots next to the numerals 

for my students still needing that extra support :) 

Pumpkins

Apples

Spider web from Pocket of Preschool. 

Children cut out their names and glue on the web :)

Trace Letters

Morning Bins: April

frogs and snails mini-erasers

Frogs on a log.

We've used these frogs before, and now I've added the cards. 

The cards get harder. There are three different levels.

Basic is shown below.

Some are missing the last frogs.

Some are different sizes.

They are Funtastic Frogs from the 1990's from Carson Dellosa.

Match the Caterpillar

Q-tip but I used them as pokey-pins.

I have this whole unit.

I can't remember which exactly unit it was in.

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

Morning Work

 Stacking puzzles from Target

Pumpkin patterns

I used real pumpkin seeds, 

pumpkins and candy corn mini erasers.

End of the month scissor skills. Found HERE.

Halloween Counting Mats

When I use these counting mats 

(which come in a TON of themes!!)

I put dots by the numbers to help

 children who need help. :) 

We are loving the spiders!

It is still early in the year, so I put little dots so they 

can count them to add that many spiders.

Morning Bins:October

This week in our morning bins:

Spider Names from HERE.

poms and ice cubes

this is a never-ending game

roll the number cube and fill the tray, once filled,

roll again and remove poms.

Continue forever lol

 Trace, trace, (write) and erase here $

Okay so it's trace with your finger

trace with the marker

write with your marker

erase

Cards from here$

 

Morning work for Fall

Tracing lines here and the dogs are from Tara West. 

I am working on finding a direct link.

                                                        These are from HERE.

 

Apple letters $

Eraser cards from HERE

with mini erasers

I used the letters in the names in our room and

 the numbers 4&5 for our ages :) 

Morning Bins

 

Puzzles from Tara West.

I punched them at the top and for storage on a ring.

I put different puzzles in each container.

Containers from Naeir see the haul here.

Monthly cutting sheets

Target felt lacers

Mini shape erasers that I added to the color copier.

The students will match the mini-eraser to the page.

It's on regular copy paper and inside a plain sheet protector,

and not those plastic dry-erase sleeves.

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.