Kinderpond Shops: Oriential Trading edition

The box I got- my tall coffee cup in comparison.

 

In the tall box, was a longer box on the right was plastic mugs. Check out this post to see why I needed mugs!

Made it Monday

Apparently, my brain is going backwards- I had the watermelon on the left and swapped it  lol

Anyways I bought three pencil sharpeners.

They are sort of bendable. I cut off the sharpener from the backs.

 

I hot glued chopsticks on the back!

Ta-da!!!!!!!!

Made it Monday: Shapes

We just finished our shapes unit.

Check out the calendar companion HERE.

Here are the shape poems HERE.

I put the shape of the day card and the tracing shape 

along with stickers all in the poem pocket.

I use the stickers during journals.

On this day, I taught them how to draw two circles that are touching 

sort of like **, and add a V at the bottom. BAM! it's a heart!!

I have been saving my oatmeal container lids forever lol

for this specific project!

I still need to write the names on the shape stencils.

It was pretty simple.

I drew the shapes with a Sharpie. 

Then cut them out with a knife.

Are they perfect? Nope, will the kids still love them? YES!!!

 

Just a quick hop to Dollar Tree

 Stars and bells see-through containers for the light table.

I take these lights apart and use on our light table.

I plan to use these for my Stews and Brews.

Kind of soft-ish snowman for the blocks area.

Super cute mugs-- well except for the fact that I don't like the white stuff that piles up lol

Here's everything that I got:

I am not sure what I will do with the GB foam shapes yet.

Tell me you're a teacher

Tell me you're a teacher, without telling me you're a teacher.

I will go first! 

Why yes, this is a display box full of markers!

My store put them on clearance for $1!!!!!!

I sent my boss a photo and was like should I grab some?

She said grab 25! 

The gal at the self-check was like what are you going to do with all of these?!?!

I'm a teacher!

 

A quick Target trip

Here is what I got:

Fun fact: 

I don't own any "regular socks"

I will use the skeletons during an animals/ pets unit.

An all about me unit for the skeleton.

 

Dollar Tree

Dumped bag lol

We are debuting playdough and what better way,

than super smelly dough!!!!

These cute erasers will be for making stews.

This skeleton is for labeling body parts.

I said basketball but it's not really lol

Green pumpkins!

These are solar lights.

I take the stake and we use them as pointers.

 

Hopping to Dollar Tree

I stopped at Dollar Tree.

I was thinking of hiding these erasers in my sensory bin.

Cute Halloween boxes

wind up walkers

using in the water table

Here are our dry erase erasers!

Target for the win!

We hopped to Target! 

Cute halloween buckets

wooden space toys for balancing

I saw one that a girl was carrying around and these were the last two left!

She put it down, and I scooped it up lol

I heard someone was going to use it for syllables,

but I am going to use them as pointers :) 

Colorful dog skeletons.

Pointers! 

I scored some sets for my teaching buddy too!

Target and Five Below

Are those mini erasers in my purse? Yes

Are they paid for too? Yes lol

 

Then I hopped to Five Below

and I grabbed this super cute 

sticky bun.

I don't know if I want to keep it in my clam down area

or put it in my kitchen area...

That's my hand for size comparison.

Target and Dollar Tree

 I hopped over to Target and Dollar Tree

DT: shark pencil bag and superstar award

Target: Line makers, handwashing timer,  and zoo tattoos.

Line makers- you roll them across the page and it prints lines to write on.

Hopped to Dollar Tree

I hopped to Dollar Tree.

Tassel and pom pom clips.

Pen holder box

 

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.