Winter Centers

 

Magnatiles-

build on the floor or on our magnet board

Small group fishing for letters

I wrote letters on the glass beads, and I put that on blue paper for water.

We used metal-edged bingo chips

large bulletin board paper with

sn*wman shapes and the children 

sorted buttons

Paper punches

white colored pencils and crayons!

This is the closest I could find for these "ice blocks"

I received two sets, and I pulled out the red and yellow for fire safety.

I have orange and green for St Patrick's Day :)

Felt sets from Dollar Tree

Cookie cutters and play dough mats from Pocket of Preschool

Spheres from Dollar Tree

I think the blue snowflake cups came from Dollar Tree too as 

well as the dish to hold the spheres 

Pokey Pins

Morning Work week 3

Here are our morning bins:

Last year, we had 4 rotations of bins which was perfect!!!! Four days of school, four sets of bins.  This year, I have to have 5 sets lol more children.  I used to prep and change them on Friday's, now it's a hot mess and I am always forgetting to change them. Y'all I wrote it on the calendar.... never looked at the calendar lol

I need to figure out some sort of system, it's almost the end of the semester lol

 Trace and erase!

Purchase them here.

These are pattern cards from here.

Snowmen, fox, and penguin erasers :)

These containers are from Dollar Tree.

Children roll a number cube and put that many erasers inside.

Penguin and penguin erasers of course!

Snowmen and a snowman!

These cards are from here. 

I split the cards up between three bins

one got these cute erasers

these drawers are from my chest of drawers

more on my storage here.

One got polar bear erasers

one got walruses :)

Here we have snowmen with pom poms.

Normally, I would have the kids sort them by color,

but this year, I wasn't going to sort out the pom-poms lol

Kids will use tongs to put the pom-poms on the snowflakes.

Week in Review: Winter Part 2

Here are our lacers:

We played with these seals...

this was sooooo difficult!

We played with them on the white board and in the water- sans iceberg lol

Here was our penguin...

note to self: press really really hard!

I know it's passed Christmas, but I never did share our Christmas sensory bin!

 Using our magnet board.

I got a new paper cutter for Christmas ;)

It's super light and very sharp.

Cube Roll

Winter Matching

I used these with our grabber.

We just grabbed and identified the numbers.

Count the snowmen.

Ice cube count and stack

I grabbed the cubes at Dollar Tree

I took an old CD case and added a spinner. 

So easy!!!!!

Match letter to animal.

These were the science experiments that I grabbed from 

Bullseye's Playground

I think we used it all up to make this.

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