Our classroom was transformed into a flower shop a few weeks ago. Our students were having so much fun setting up their store, making signs, writing lists, making money to use in the store, so we extended our leaning outside of the dramatic play center and brought it into other areas of the classroom. This …
The students in our class were showing an interest a couple of weeks ago in the weather and the clouds that they saw outside. So we decided to start a unit on clouds and see how interested they were in looking at different kinds of weather. Apparently not very interested because we have decided to …
Our winter sensory bin is looking great. It was easy to put together and the students are enjoying playing with it. Here’s what’s in it: Pine cones, foam snowflakes, bells, acorns, fake snow, my snowflake sight words. All these items can be found at the dollar store, and my sight words are just a click …
We had so much fun with the letter R this week. There are just so many things that you can do for this letter, so we just kept adding activities! Here is a round-up of some of the centers: R is for Rocks: students could create anything they wanted with the rocks- letters, art, numbers, …
Get your students excited and engaged in their learning with this fall sensory bin. Reinforce literacy skills with this hands-on activity. Sensory bins are so much fun in the kindergarten classroom! If you are looking to find out more about how I use them, check out my Sensory Bin blog post, and if you need …
As we continue to work on recognizing and writing names in our classroom. We made our sensory bin into a name-focused center. This one was really easy to set-up: I got paper from the shredder in the office and dumped magnetic letters into it that we already had in our classroom. We put sheets with …
Our new science focus this month is weather. We have started off by discussing clouds: the different types, what they look like and what they can tell us. Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs by Judi Barrett is a great introduction to this subject and the students find it hilarious. To accompany our reading, we …
Yes, I know Easter has already come and gone… it went by so fast I wasn’t able to get this post out in time! I still want to share with you this sensory bin idea for Easter. We filled it up with some plastic ‘grass’, plastic eggs and some Easter characters. I also cut out …
sensory bin idea: this fun rainbow sensory bin is perfect for St-Patrick’s Day. Rainbow colored pasta is the perfect sensory bin filler to get students engaged and learning. Changing out sensory bins and coming up with new ideas for fillers is one my favourite things to do. For St-Patrick’s Day this year, I wanted to …
Sensory bin literacy center idea using my Snowball Fight! Sight word letter matching game.
