Winter Centers

Winter Centers

sn*w and ice magnatiles- not a big hit at all this year, no one used them!

I swapped it out with something in week two.

I think they were from Target.

Play-Doh with cookie cutters and mats.

Here are some play-dough mats $ for them to use:

More HERE $ 

Wooden houses and a truck from Target.

stuffies- mostly from Dollar Tree

We are using these as reading buddies :)

Cubes for a light table.

The box is from Dollar Tree and they are sn*wflakes.

plain white felt sn*wmen at the bottom

decorated sn*wmen 

sn*wmen ornaments from Target.

Paper punches, white crayons, and colored pencils- 

not a big hit either, swapped it out week 2.

Ten frames with sn*wflakes from a past KinderCrate.

I added felt numbers to match.

sn*wmen have magnets on the back for our magnet center.

Number guide from Tara West.

These were our snowmen math magnet game.$

In the white bin

I drew the faces on the cups.

The snowballs were from Target, I think.

The cups just sit in a bin, and the kids toss yarn  pom-poms

into them and call out the number they sank the pom-pom.

Besides our fine motor table, I added these trays.

These are super small trays.

I have a bag for each number.

Yellow tray- random cards- I have zero idea where they came from.

Blue tray- Number Blocks cards from a set. 

Number cards from some people I bought this summer.

(Blog post upcoming)

Red Tray~ textured cards from Target and sandpaper cards from FB Marketplace.

Pink Tray~ From Hands2Mind

video

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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

January Winter Morning Work

 Wiki Sticks

I didn't want to reinvent the wheel, 

so I brought out these shape cards,

but I only had two sets and I need three.

So I went to find the shape Arctic cards.

Grab this AMAZING mat for easy storage plus it's free!!!

Next up we have these counting cards with mini erasers.

Next up we have our monthly portrait and scissor skills.

They get a highlighter and a box of Color Me World crayons.

When they drew themselves and highlighted the lines,

they turned the drawing in and I gave them the scissors so there was 

no chance that they would cut the self-portraits.

Scissor Skills

and Monthly Portraits

Labels 

The ones I used are HERE.

set 1

set 2

set 3

Then they could choose from a Sn*wflake or a hat.

They got to choose whatever colors they wanted.

Grab the bundle HERE.

On the bottom, I added a heart for them to add their names.

Morning Bins and Sn*w Learning

Ice Cube Patterns $

Sn*wflake Beads to lace on sparkly pipe cleaners

Polar Animal letters, shapes, and numbers $

We have been using dry erase markers but they have been a real bear to erase!

So we are going to try wet-erase on these. 

Melted Sn*wmen

I literally cut 1-inch strips of scratch paper, some orange squares,

 and some brown strips of colored paper.

Kids will cut the paper to make a sn*wman :)

Here is our science center.

The printables are found here.$

Like my purple curtain?

I literally hot glued it to the workbench lol

At least it covered most of the shelves lol

In the blue pocket chart, the kids can match the tiny sn*wflakes to some bigger ones.

All the cards are on the left-hand side of the table in the blue container.

There are blue and white cubes to measure the flakes, 

there are glass beads and blue pattern blocks to make flakes

I added some sn*wflake frames in those heavy-duty plastic sleeves.

They used a sn*wflake cookie cutter and the tools HERE to make the patterns.

After we read Sn*wmen at Night

we made this chart 

(Apparently, my Dyslexia came through spelling sn*wmen!)

 

January in Kinderpond

 

This month in Kinderpond 

it's all about winter and winter animals!

I live in Wisconsin and we get /s/now.  I don't like /s/now, so I don't say it.

instead of snowpants, I say no-pants

instead of snowman, I call it a no-man lol

Here are some of the books that I reserved at my local library.

I order them on line from participating libraries

and they get shipped to my local one :)

Here the children use the tongs to put on the snowmen :)

found here

Here we used mini erasers

to cover the matching letters

found here

Here are our ten frames.

Tongs off to the side.

I used sparkly poms that I bought on clearance on 

Oriental Trading :)

Use these with Dollar Tree's snowmen :)

Using mini erasers again to build the number. 

   These were whole pages, but I printed 

them two per page.

Feed the snowmen

missing from the photo are

the snowmen lol

Fine motor and math work here 

Shape button patterns

the buttons came from my KinderCrate.

Roll the dice and write the number on the graph.

found here

Snowball Shapes

Snowflake shape match PoP

colorful snowmen-

using tongs to move pom poms to sort by color

Snow globe numbers

using tongs and mini erasers

found here