April Morning Bins

Alphabet Rain

glass gems from Dollar Tree

Last week we were watering the plants, I mean letters lol. 

Did I use these gems last week? Yes, 

Did I put them away? Yes,

Did I get them back out for this week? Yes lol 

For whatever reason, 

even using cardstock,

the papers were still rolling up.

So I had them move the poms poms.

Then put the drawer on top.

Grab mats here.

We're practicing our glue bottle skills.

 

Kinderpond Learns about: Weather

I start each unit with a letter that my students open.

Then I use the word cards from HERE

to go into our writing center.

 During our science lesson,

I use THESE word cards.

Here is our butcher paper activity.

I used those fabric cubes and 

added weather to roll and they 

can draw on the paper.

They loved it!

Rainbow mini erasers to build the letter.

Measuring lightning and rainbows.

Although I didn't find a rainbow recording sheet.

This is how we store our centers.

I share a room, so I pull the blue pocket

chart pictured at the top, down to cover them.

Here are our light table guidelines.

I asked the staff to save those

big chunks of excess to make these

weather pages.

sn*wflake, raindrop, and sun.

The above printables are from HERE.

I made Weather Stew from HERE.

Jumbo rainbow erasers

the sn*wflakes are metal-ish

white poms for clouds

yellow pipe cleaners for the lightning

yellow poms for sun

blue glass gems for rain

Bowls for the stew

Q-tip painting sheets HERE.

Make sure to grab these FREE weather printables

Rainbow Charts

Simple Charts

Weather Chart real photos

Stews Just get the bundle, it's well worth the money. 

It's a bit of prep, but I have not found a class that doesn't love them!

April Morning Bins

 Here are this week's morning bins:

Tracing egg lines came from here.

Play dough cards from here.

Carrot tracing

Here are my bookshelves:

April Centers

Centers for spring

Pom poms and tongs 

Coloring pages from the Pond

Playdough mats here.

Target bolts

From Target

Bunnies/peeps and chicks from Dollar Tree

Magnets from Target over the years.

Morning Bins: Spring Edition

 

I found some pretty thin straws in 

our art room. I used that plastic gimp.

I tied a knot in one end with

a tap flag at the end.

My students cut the straws 

(yes they will fly across the room!) 

You will find them days and weeks later

When they get to the end, I will tie another

knot at the end.  I made it long, like a 

very long necklace/lanyard length.

The never-ending game.

Add:

pop-it

pom poms

number cube

and plastic tongs

To play: roll the number cube. Pop that many pop-it domes.

Place poms on top.  Once pop-it is filled. Roll the number cube to get the poms off.

Once off, flip the pop-it over and begin again.

I used Dollar Tree foam cubes with 1-3 dots on it for longer play. 

No clue where this cutie-patootie frog came from.

Children can choose what color they want to use for

this torn paper frog.

The heart is so they know to put their name there :)

The last bin this week for our theme words.

The printable came from the spring unit from Pocket of Preschool.

Kids write and illustrate 4/5 words.

It's a great keepsake.

March Centers

Here are our calm-down tools for the month.

I change them monthly.

In my plans, we use them as a group.

We typically only use one hand.

Leprechaun Brew from here.

Sorting Target magnets on the oil drip pan,

I drew a rainbow on butcher board paper. 

Geoboard challenge

Grab them here.

Raining Shapes here.

rainbow patterns here

Cups from Dollar Tree

For the light table

More for the light table

Bought from Target in Bullseye's Playgound

Playdough mats here.

Coloring Club at From the Pond

Grab the papers here.