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

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Morning Bins

 

Scissor Skills

monthly portrait

Winter Emotions

Grab your *free* copies below.

There are four winter feelings:

Mittens pink/purple

Hot cocoa

Hats

Mittens blue

Someone made a polar bear one and I loved it so much,

I made recording sheets to go along with the ones above.

Alas, I can't remember where I saw it or the creator,

I am so sorry, I wanted to link your work here, but I can't recall where it was :(

Sn*wflake FREE!!!!!!!!

Paper from Winter Activities from Pocket of Preschool

Ice Cube patterns

Fine motor snowflake beads-

just stringing them on a pipe cleaner

You could have them make patterns,

you could add a dice and have them add that many beads 

to the pipe cleaner.

Melted Snowman

You could work with scissors or torn paper

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. 

Sn*wmen at Night and more

 We made coffee filter sn*wflakes!

After reading Sn*wmen at Night,

we made our own in our journals.

Our transition to wash our hands for snack was to 

list something that we would want to do with our sn*w person.

After reading the book,

The Jacket I wore in the Sn*w

We named some of the items in the story

and then drew them in our journals

One day we read The Biggest Sn*wball of All

then we made sn*wballs in our journals.