Winter Centers and More!

 

We read the book The Jacket I Wore.

We came up with different things we can wear in the sn*w.

Here I have some winter punches, white colored pencils and crayons 

for the children to make winter scenes.

There is blue paper for the background.

There is white paper for the sn*w.

Here is my example:

The green box is our glue sponge.

Here is our play dough bin.

I know some people use a tray but I use trays for my 

themed stews.

I put the letters to spell sn*w.

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

More HERE $ 

Here is our snowman stew $

in the video, it shows how I store them,

but this is how to display it.

The bowls are from Dollar Tree,

they have snowflakes around them.

Here are the winter magnatiles.

I think they were from Target.

These were our snowmen math magnet game.$

Feed the Snowman $

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.

I would suggest keeping the cups in a bin

so the cups don't tip over.

Snowball ten frames

I just used white cotton balls.

There are tons of activities in THIS unit. $

There was a snowman tic-tac-toe gameboard at Dollar Tree.

But I just had my children match on the card.

There are two versions of this game.

Found here.$

Morning Work January Edition

 It was a short week for us, only 3 days, so our three morning bins were:

Melted Sn*wman

We just used scrap paper for the white part- just plain copy paper.

We will use our glue sponges to glue things down.

Hashtag blocks

I am still looking for maybe some cards to add,

like, make this letter or this shape or whatever.

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 :(

 I will try to post this in the TPT store ASAP!

I still have to do my lesson plans for tomorrow lol

January Sn*w Centers

Just some regular snow punches. 

The container came from Dollar Tree. 

This is a spinner game with Unifix cubes.

Spin and graph.

You could be all fancy and use item counters like a carrot 

eraser and buttons, but we just got Unifix cubes!

Pattern block challenge

Snapcube challenge

Pocket chart numbers-

I think there are 3 or 4 things to match to the number head.

I pulled all my blue magnatiles for our light table.

We also got these!!!!!!

Hop over here to see how I store my pom-poms.
I am also thinking of doing the same with LEGO bricks.

I got these from Target and going to put them in the blocks center.

I have some playdough cards and some snowmen cookie cutters.

The kids bring in 4 containers of playdough.

I try to choose colors that fit the month.

Blues for January. 

(Reds and pinks for Feb.

Greens and oranges March

April greens

October oranges and black

Nov brown

December green and red)

Here's a dice game where the children roll the number cube and add mini erasers.

Most of the printables are from HERE. $$

Oh.... and my least favorite word is sn*w lol

my students think it is so funny.

It is the first word that I actively teach them to read lol

just so I don't have to say it!!! 

Next week, I will show you our morning work. :)

Morning Work: January week 1

Last week we had ONE day of school... ummm what??? Insert pajama day and a hot chocolate party!! We put chocolate milk into a crockpot and turned it on low... yep that's it!!!!!!!!!!!!  We added marshmallows, whipped topping, and sprinkles.

Each year I give my students personalized mugs. Read that post here.  

We only had three days of school before break, so we had an extra bin, so we did that bin on our one day back lol

Here are the bins this week:

I went old school and wrote on a craft stick, numeral, number word, and dots.

Children will slide small rubber bands onto the stick matching the number of

ands to the number on the sticks.

I challenge my students to see how many they can fill up.

It makes them actively engaged in the activity.

I got those bands at Oriental Trading

I got a multi-pack, but here are links for

blue

purple

white

This empty drawer is not really empty lol

It has design a mitten from 

Differentiated Kindergarten 

Working on fine motor with q-tips and paint!

I thought the kids would care about the letters on top,

but yeah, they don't lol

I grabbed these winter pony beads here.

Lacing with a pipe cleaner is much easier.

String snowflakes also from Oriental Trading.

I bought them on clearance at the end of the season.

Thankfully, we have snow until at least March lol

Pipe Cleaners

4k Frogs

Here is our January calendar:

Here is our dramatic play schedule for the year

Here is our plan for  the year

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