Morning Bins

Here are our morning bins for the week:

Making /s/now flakes  from here.

I split the cards into three bins, 

so each child has some to work with.

Last year, I would have partners to share a bin.

Here are some ice cube snowball count

I used white pom-poms and 

the ice cubes are from Dollar Tree.

I love mini erasers.

I literally take the drawer out of my storage chest,

and plop it in the bin.

Each drawer has their own set because they are all so cute,

I can use them ALL!!

I made these and I will post them in my store soon.

I got a new computer so I am not sure were the file is now lol

Cutting Sample 

I printed out enough to fit the themes for the year.

I feel a blog post coming on about my monthly binder.

The children trace with the high lighter  and then cut it out on the line.

I still have to remind them not to cut the end- so this week you will hear 

"Don't cut my coffee cup and spill my coffee!!" 

They giggle and then tease me about cutting the cup lol

We are still working on not cutting them though doh!

Dental Health Week

I have three areas in my room for books:

Oh lawt!!! I've never had a whole shelf to myself!!!

Cavity Count from here

Roll number cube and put that many dots on teeth.

Brush them off again while rolling the number cube.

 

Write and brush

pick a tooth and write the number or letter on the 

tooth and erase it with the toothbrush. 

Dental clips from here.

We use clothes pins to count the number on each card.

Trace and erase from here.

Pom pom sort on toothbrushes from here.

Smashing Cavities (like Smashing Pumpkins lol) 

I am going to have the kids roll dough

and place on top.

When it's filled, they can smash them down.

Teeth Math Game

Dough again.  Roll dough into a ball. 

Roll the number cube, cover the number with the dough ball 

and place it on a tooth. 

When I taught kindergarten, my students

lost teeth. I bought these teeth necklaces 

to store in the tooth in.

Well now my class isn't losing any teeth, 

so, I took off the necklace part,

and I added some in our ten frame game boards below. 

Children will place the number of teeth on the game boards.

Morning Work week 3

Here are our morning bins:

Last year, we had 4 rotations of bins which was perfect!!!! Four days of school, four sets of bins.  This year, I have to have 5 sets lol more children.  I used to prep and change them on Friday's, now it's a hot mess and I am always forgetting to change them. Y'all I wrote it on the calendar.... never looked at the calendar lol

I need to figure out some sort of system, it's almost the end of the semester lol

 Trace and erase!

Purchase them here.

These are pattern cards from here.

Snowmen, fox, and penguin erasers :)

These containers are from Dollar Tree.

Children roll a number cube and put that many erasers inside.

Penguin and penguin erasers of course!

Snowmen and a snowman!

These cards are from here. 

I split the cards up between three bins

one got these cute erasers

these drawers are from my chest of drawers

more on my storage here.

One got polar bear erasers

one got walruses :)

Here we have snowmen with pom poms.

Normally, I would have the kids sort them by color,

but this year, I wasn't going to sort out the pom-poms lol

Kids will use tongs to put the pom-poms on the snowflakes.

Morning Bins week 1 & 2

 The first week we made snowman names (it took two days plus, for everyone)

We cut up book orders Wednesday. 

We made melted snowmen

Week 2 

I grabbed these beads on clearance on Oriental Trading. 

I always buy them after the season when they are cheap!

We are going to make patterns on a pipe cleaner.

Snowflakes beads- again on clearance at Oriental Trading.

more fine motor and patterning

Play dough mats

but here are some free ones.

Here I used craft sticks.

I wrote the numeral,

the word, and made the dots :)

the bands came from... Oriental Trading on clearance of course lol

Hole Punching

the hole punchers came from Dollar Tree

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