February Morning Work

Trace, trace, (write) and erase here $

I like it when things rhyme lol, so we leave out the write part lol

We chant "trace, trace, and erase."

There is NO name on these!

I can't find it anywhere. :(

I even put it in Google Lens and

still no luck.

Scissor Skills

Writing Center

March Morning Bins

Skittles Patterns... minus the Skittles,

I used beads instead.

Types of Lines Pocket of Preschool

I just die-cut shamrocks from white paper.

I hung on our tree with a pipe cleaner.

Scissor skills here.

Monthly portrait

Theme Words- we do this for each theme.

I save them for their portfolios.

 

Morning Bins: January

 

New Year's Papers

We use theme papers for each theme,

It is a great way to show what we did and their growth

Hole Punches papers

This is how I store them, so I can just add a set to each drawer.

Snowman and mitten

I give them a choice about what color they can use,

Fireworks

Morning Bins March

Morning Bins for March 

Pattern Blocks

Snap Cubes

Skittles Patterns

Monthly Scissor Assessment

Theme Words- we do this for each theme.

I save them for their portfolios.

Dental Count

Playdough mats

here and here

Make a shape

Morning Bins November week 1

Here are our morning  bins:

pony beads and leaves on trees

They are found on Tara West's Fall unit 

Jumbo push pins and pumpkin pie!

This was From the Pond

This is from Pocket of Preschool's Sports Unit.

Kids pick some words and try to spell and draw a photo.

This was my example:

My name book

They trace their first letter then write on their own.

On the back, they drew themselves.

I made a cover and popped them into a binder.

Beginning a new unit

Beginning each of my units, we begin with a letter addressed to the class. The kids get to open the sealed envelope. Then I put them in a binder and the kids can read them anytime. I have one letter for each unit I teach.

The letters introduce the new theme and key vocabulary words. As I read the letter, I hold up the word cards.  Those word cards go into my writing area.

Shortly after that, we look at the new books for the theme. These are only some of the books we have in our classroom.  I have another

When I taught higher grades, where they could read, I would have them share a page of their favorite new book with the class. Now my students are 4 and 5 year olds, so we find our favorite page and they show the picture on that page to the class. My goal is to see that they see different books that they might not pick up and look at.


By having them share their favorite books, I am trying to have them start the conversation about books. Yes, they love to read the books that I read too, but a recommendation from a friend, is so amazing!



So far I have letters for:

• All About Me

• School/alpha

• Fall

• Monsters

• Transportation

• Thanksgiving

• Nutrition- covers each food groups

• gingerbread

• Christmas non-religious

• snow/polar/winter

• space

• weather/GH

• friendship/love

• teeth

• Seuss

• Leprechaun

• Vet/pet- intros different pets

• Rain Forest  layers and animals

• Community Helpers- intros different ones

• Spring

• Insects- intros different insects

• Zoo- intros different animals

• Ocean- intros different animals

• Dinos- intros different 

• Apples