Shop With Me: Dollar Tree

Remember Ed Emberley? 

This reminds me exactly of that!

I peeled them and added them to construction paper.

I added them to our 'how to draw" drawer in our art center.

Added this to our transportation unit.

These are good.  However, there are not even two servings in the bag lol

It would be 10/10 if there were more :)

Shop With Me: Dollar Tree

Shell "eggs" for the ocean unit

a frog stuffie

Whisks for our Stews

I put these on paper to use for drawing.

I told you there was a surprise!!!

Tooth whitening.  I will let you know how it works :)

 

Kinderpond Shops Target

 These are those wind-up toys.

Ocean unit for the crab.

Birds for my birds unit.

I was thinking pets for a turtle and a chameleon.

 

Water tubes for sensory/calm down.

Blocks for the light table.

More fidget toys.

Animals and dinos

A large light-up anemone.

The grand haul :)

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.

 

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!

Classroom letters part 2

Here are some of the letters that I use in my classroom:

On the unit's first day, we get a letter and word cards for that theme.

Here are 

Community Helpers

Earth Day  

Insects 

Pets

Rainforest

Leprechauns/ St Patricks Day 

There are over 20 letters.  Some theme letters are a set.

In the zoo set, there are over 20 letters from different areas of the zoo.

In the rainforest, there are over 10 letters.

In the community helpers set, you get an overview letter and letters from over 10 different community helpers.

Insects letters:  there are over 10 letters.

Here is part one.

Critter College

This summer I received an awesome box from PetSmart.

It made planning my lessons very easy! We brainstormed ideas good and bad for pets. 

We talked about why they are good and bad. One child says "lion" another child says "My dad killed a lion." Oh really?  One of my favorite  sayings is "PROVE IT!"  I am still waiting on proof! 

With the younger children we talked out loud animals and the why part.

The older children recorded it in their science logs.

 Next we talked about how to handle furry little critters.

 We talked about what they  need.

 How to decide which furry critter would be right for your family.

In the critter college booklet, it goes over several furry critters.

There life spans, dietary needs, and other important info!

We talked about Pet Snacks:

It is supposed to be a paper grocery bag :)

Here is my feeble attempt to make an exercise wheel!  lol

We also talked about how to have a happy habitat:

Again my attempt to draw a cage! So with these two photos was to draw a cage- so as I was attempting to draw it, it started to look like spider webs!  whoops!  At least I tried!!!!

So here I tried to draw a doctor bag- wait do they make those toy doctor bags anymore???

So I realize that I am not that artistic, but at least I do try!  

I also realized that I need to figure out cuter ideas for our anchor charts!

As the lessons went on, I did more creative!