November Centers

 Playdough cards

full-sized (since the computer crash, I can't find where I got these :( ) 

half sheet

Stew

Flannel board

Leapfrog fridge

Noodle Game

Potato Heads

Cupcakes

Pancake pile up!

Here are more that we used and then I swapped from last week:

The wooden skewers were from Target.

The wok and food are from Learning Resources.

Pointers- mostly from Dollar Tree

they were pens, I took out the pen part.

Yeti in Spaghetti 

Pop the Pig

Learning Resource pie 

Cookie Letters

Muffin counting

One bookshelf

How amazing are these books?!?!?

We made a book.

I found some clipart, and we listed foods from the food groups.

Our writing center

cards from HERE.

Nutrition Centers Pt 2

 

We read Betsy Eats at a Sandwich Shop from Play to Learn Preschool

Then we brainstormed what we would need for a sandwich shop.

Then I brought out the bucket of food!

I got them at https://www.simplyspecialed.com/ but I can't find them anywhere :(

Yeti in the Spaghetti

We have a large Hmong population where I live,

and we celebrate the Hmong New Year around Thanksgiving.

Here is the sorting pie.

You can sort by food type or color. 

There's a guide at the bottom.

Here are our cookies

Hop over here to see what else I added. 

Here are our M&M's

This is the butcher paper plate to

be sort of on the https://www.myplate.gov/

Morning bins:

From Target

Feed the turkey

Last year, they just rolled a cube and added that many poms

this year, since I couldn't recall, I added these cards. 

Turkeys mat from Tara West

Turkey 10 frame

3D turkeys

cover the gameboard

then cover the number.

Cards from Tara West.

Hop back next week when you check out our turkeys!

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Thanksgiving

 We start all of our units with a letter. The kids love opening letters!

These letters get the children excited about the new unit. It introduces new words. These word cards then go into the writing center. 

Same centers this week with the addition of this muffin game.

You could add a number cube. Then roll both the color and number of muffins.

I couldn't find a use for those turkeys until I got this game out.

This was my transition activity.

I use transition activities to space out

our hand washing time.

Sometimes it's verbal.

In this case, I put the cards out on the table upside down.

I called on the children to come and pick up a card.

They flipped the card and put a turkey on the shape that matched.

When I have a "game" that doesn't have as many pieces,

I stop near the end of the "game" and add those used 

pieces back so they can be picked again.

After we play this "game" I put it in centers, so they can play it again!

The following week is short, we are out Thursday and Friday for Thanksgiving.

Our morning bins are: 

*scissor skills

*monthly self-portraits

* name puzzles

Trace with a highlighter for our monthly scissor skills practice:

These name puzzles are from HERE.  We are going to practice spelling our names and then we will glue them to make a name tent for our Thanksgiving feast. This is harder than you think for 4/5-year-olds!

The kids loved putting their names up... but they kept falling down grrrrrrr.

Our monthly family projects

(PS I do have more kids)

We did a directed drawing.

Like step by step. We are still working :)

You can get fancy and add different 

patterns for the feathers.

In one small group, we made these pie slices.

I cut paper plates into quarters. 

I added pumpkin pie spices to the paint. 

We painted the crust brown and the pie orange.

 I punched holes in the pie and the 

tag and attached them with pipe cleaners!!! 

The tag came from @polka.dots.please.

Grab the printable HERE.

This is a fabulous book to read before you

paint the children's hands!