I hopped to Target.

 

Kid-safe headphones- these are for my 3rd grader. They had three different color combinations.

More double sided border (apparently I bought it twice lol)

cable ties- for the shark!! 

I plan to put letters/numbers/shapes/colors and use clothespins to clip.

Stay tuned for the finished product.

I plan to laminate first and write with a sharpie later. maybe lol  

maybe since I have two sets, I will write first and then laminate.

Counting Gumballs

 I am always looking for new and fun things for fine motor work and found these gumball machines and got to work!

They could be for morning bins or centers.

Children will place the same number of counters:

*pom poms

*beads

*mini erasers

*play dough

on top of the gumball machines.

You could add tweezers or tongs for added fine motor work.

I print on card stock, laminate, and then cut apart.

I also have the same idea but as a polar bear theme. Hop over to my blog to check them out in action.

Hop over here to grab them :)

The elephant chopsticks are from Dollar Tree a million years ago.

Te hands set I think WalMart.

Kinderpond shops: Dollar Tree Edition

I hopped over to Dollar Tree again!

Here are building block containers:

I am hoping to find more Colors of the World crayons.

I am hoping to find one for each of my students.

They were on display with a coloring book- in the same display.

I will let you know about those fun crayons. 

I love sharks, I am not sure it will make it to school. ;( 

More pencils for the writing center.

Here were some backdrops for ocean/beach week

Yes, I bought more happy birthday crowns

did I have to look back on my photos to see which colors I had

already bought in the middle of Dollar Tree?  Also yes lol

I looked back at this post for the photo lol

I thought the green one was a dino? yes but they all have fish tales for the zipper pulls.

Seuss puzzles

I am going to see how big these are-

I am hoping they will fit in my morning bin drawers.

More color puzzles

I am hoping these will fit in the morning bins too!

I use these as themed pointers.

Yes, these are all the same just the outside is different!

Naeir Haul

Here is a photo of my haul from Naeir

Yes, it's a random Rottweiler pillow, we have a Rott :)

This goodie box has all the faseners.

I love Stikki Clips, so this is perfect!

 

Here are 4 mini staplers.

Here are 6 hole punches.

Here are some nicely weighted dough tools.

Most of the tools we have are super light wieght.

Here are some glitter glue pens.

We use them for our alphabet books.

I don't even like glitter lol

Foam alphabet stickers and 

foam glitter shapes.

Here are other Naeir Hauls

April haul

Another April haul 

Mini July haul

First Haul

Kinderpond Shops Dollar Tree

 

Video

I bought the mini chalkboards for signs in my room.

I had a co-teacher last year, so I bought an extra just in case we 

work  together again :)

I grabbed this table scatter for sensory bottles.

The top ones are foam and the bottom ones

are metalic.

Jumbo-ish cards.

I laid the frog one down for comparison. 

More pen pointers

I like to have options :)

More scented pens and markers.

I have used smelly markers/pens forever!

Kids like them no matter if you're 4 or in 5th grade :) 

Stay tuned for a "toy test"

to see how they work :)

Yes they are sharpeners-

add a dowel and they become pointers!

I had the pink tiara so I added a yellow one

for birthday celebrations :)

Here are more squishy toys for the calm-down area.

Each month, we get new ones added, and the old

ones are put away.  We practice as a class before they go 

into the calm-down area.

These are GIANT ice cream cone cups. 

The blue cup is for comparison. 

Kinderpond Shops at Bullseye's Playground

Do you have a magnet center in your room?

I used to use the back of my question of the day board,

but over the years, the kids have gotten rougher and knock

over the stars on the other side.

I am going to put the magnet center in my reading loft.

Wild animal magnets

There are two other sets that I am still on the hunt for!

Color books of stickers 

This is a magnet container great for our pond unit. 

Shark magnet container perfect for the ocean unit.

Letters and numbers

I use these the first few weeks of school,

either in morning bins or centers.

I just bought two packs, 

just showing the back and front.

Here are some cool crayons.

Maybe put them in the writing center.

Here are two puzzles

there was a third one, a caterpillar,

 but we do insects at the end of the year,

and the caterpillar only goes up to 10.

 

Ocean Activities

We used these ocean shake up games in our ocean unit:

Don't forget to grab a name activity HERE

Ocean shake up

Surfboard

Ocean Matching

Surf's Up

Ocean learning on Kinderpond Jr.