Polar Letters

To begin our polar unit I read 

a letter. Kids love getting letters.

This gets them excited about learning,

and that's a win for me!

All of my letters begin with an overview letter.

That can be all, sometimes there are more letters

to go with units, sometimes there is only one.

In this unit, there is an overview letter that gets delivered with word cards then 

each day we get a different letter from different animals from the Arctic.

My students really loved getting a passport with stickers when we did our

Holidays Around the World unit, so I added "stickers" that the

children can glue them on our ice scene.

Each day a new letter with an animal.

When I close up the letters, I want to keep track of

which animal is which.

So sometimes I write in cursive.

This cool printable and all the letters are... did you guess on my broken computer?

Well you'd be correct!! 

I did a rough cut for my class but older kids could do a super quick 

job of cutting around the animals.

Check out all of my in action ideas HERE.

 

January Morning Bins Week 4 and More

 Here are our mornings for this week:

Scissor Skills

These I made.

Snowflake beads

Snowman Poms

For our dental health centers

Cavity Count from here

Roll a number cube and put that many dots on the teeth.

Brush them off again while rolling the number cube.

This time I will use those tooth savers but 

you could use white Unifix cubes

Smashing Cavities (like Smashing Pumpkins lol) 

I am going to have the kids roll dough

and place it on top.

When it's filled, they can smash them down.

Pom pom sort on toothbrushes from here.

Trace and erase from here.

Write and brush

pick a tooth and write the number or letter on the 

tooth and erase it with the toothbrush.