February Bins and Centers

 This week in centers and in morning bins:

Hearts from HERE.

Grab these and more here.

Morning Bins 

Centers this week:

Two different pots for our stews.$

Tic tac toe games from Target.

These are number and letter sheets.

I used pink/magenta gems from Dollar Tree.

Trace the number /letter and cover the same ones on the side.

Grab these play dough mats here$

For the block area items from Target.

We will build towers with these red cups.

Here is our science center. Printables here.

All About ramps.

Here are the new pencils for our writing center.

Some are regular pencils and some colored pencils.

They both were from WalMart.

PS I added purple tape at the top, 

so I know that they belong 

to the writing center.

Here are some of the "new" pens I am adding.

I take them out each year and then pop them 

back into the theme box for next year.

Those cute little ones are Scentos- like the smelly ones!

In small groups we are working on:

This uses an egg carton.  

I use garage sale dots and add whatever skill 

I want to work on or review.  This week I might 

choose a heart, 15, pink, x's. 

Then either make doubles or add different 

shapes, numbers, or letters. 

Print out, and tape it on top of an egg carton.  

Add items to garage sale dots, and stick them inside the egg carton.  

Add a red/pink: eraser, pony bead, heart, or glass bead.  

Close cover. Shake. Open. 

Read what is on the sticker in the cup 

where the item landed. Close and repeat.

Read more about the Shake-Up games HERE.

Shake Up

These shake-up games would be great for a transition too.

  Valentine's Love 

 Cupid's Arrow

Non-Standard Measuring

Candy Hearts 

Many Hearts

Cupid's Arrow

X's and O's 

Gingerbread Centers

 Centers for our gingerbread unit

Here is our sensory bin:

filled with oatmeal with cinnamon sprinkled in

cups

purple and pink letters

gingerbread mini erasers

whisks

plastic scoops

measuring cups and spoons

clear scoops (not photoed)

Writing center with cool papers

One of our books shelves.

Printables from here $

I used mini gb and candy erasers.

In the pack, she included some house clipart.

Here are those candy building set.

GB Houses puzzles from here. $

Color by number. Grab it here $

Wooden houses from Bullseye's Playground.

Decorate the GB house next photo shows the tools we use:

There are a couple of those red and white rollers are I think ornaments? 

anyways from Wal~Mart. Cookie cutters too!

Spin and color sheets from here $

My reading buddies

Some pointers to choose from.

I used white pom poms for the marshmallows and for the chocolate, I used brown fun foam! 

Build the Number 

Classroom Tour: Writing center

The WRITE signs are from Tara West. 

I move the WRITE letters on the wall near the top.

We made an anchor chart. 

I tried making it look like a crayon/marker box.

Write on/ write with/ not write on.

Those word cards are from HERE.

On the side of the wooden shelves, I have a small white hook-

this holds our name cards.  

I do not have scissors or glue in my writing center.

That black container is a Tool-turn-about is from Pampered Chef!

It holds pens, markers, pencils, colored pencils, and crayons.

In the wooden shelves:

clipboards

plain paper- multi sizes

stencils

pencils

crayons

I take the themed paper and tool-turn-about off 

daily because I share my classroom.

February Centers and Morning Work

Here are our morning work bins:

Filled muffin cups with heart beads.

Used a pipe cleaner for the bracelet part :)

I used red, pink, and white bands and craft sticks for 

number practice and fine motor work.

The sticks have numbers written, words and dots on them :)  

Snap cube sheets and pattern blocks are from Pocket of Preschool.

Here are our centers this week.

Play dough tray.

Cookie Cutters- bought on clearance last year lol

red hearts from Dollar Tree

and the things with the red handles in the lower left side, 

were stamps from Target.

Cup stacking

Light table accessories

bought from Dollar tree and Target.

Here are more ideas for the light table.

I have two headbands and some funky glasses for 

Write the Room.

(Wonders where the glasses were? lol

well, they were there for the students to use!)

Tic Tac Toe boards.

From Target.

Side note: do you let them win?

We had a few games of CAT and some games where

they beat me.

One gal, told me where I should put my pieces. ;) 

Roll and fill the ice cube trays :)

Traveling writing center.

Stickers and stamps.

I teach my students to clean the stamps by using 

a baby wipe.

My Pampered Chef tool turn about,

is perfect for our writing center!!

When you need to try to see if all the pens work lol

Rice is in our sensory table.

Cupcake liners and erasers :)

Writing trays from Target.

I take out the lacing toys and use them elsewhere.

Heart pointer is from Target too lol

The red sand is from Dollar Tree.

Grab your sets here:

Letters

Numbers

My student looks for this letter each and every time....

can you guess what his name starts with? :)