Centers and a book of potions!!

Hello! We are certainly experiencing fall weather here in MN! It's been chilly and rainy the past couple of days. We had a short week and a long 4 day weekend....love it! I snapped a couple of pictures of my class involved in some fall activities...

The children have to count the correct number of leaves to put on each tree.

For this activity, the children just roll the die and collect the number of pumpkins rolled. When the pumpkins are gone, they count to see who collected more.

AND....since today was my day off and it was chilly and rainy outside, I thought it was a good day to catch up on a couple of creative projects....

I stamped a Halloween card...

Made a book of potions (inspired by this):

And filled a few jars for my mantle....

All I need now is a cup of hot chocolate to top off my day. = )

Thanks for checking in and have a great weekend!

I Spy Bags

Hello! I made a couple of I-spy bags for my classroom. There are several good tutorials on making these, like this one...and another one here. I actually made mine, then thought of searching for a tutorial! I really like the way they turned out.


Here is a photo of it empty; I used felt to eliminate having to deal with the rough edges of fabric.
The tutorials online use cute fabric, but later (after I made mine!) I saw really cute printed felt at Hobby Lobby that would be great for these.

Then I added rice and some plastic objects. I am going to use this bag for beginning sound recognition. I printed a sheet with the letters that begin each object. The children have to cross off the letter as they find an object that begins with that sound. I had these red toys in my closet at school for some time...I think they were from an older activity, but I'm not sure where they came from originally.


I also filled one with magnetic letters. This will be used for letter recognition or can be adapted to beginning sound identification, (give the child pictures, have him/her find the beginning letter), finding the letters in one's name, try to find the letters in ABC order....etc. This would also be a great activity to put in a literacy bag with an I Spy book...so many possibilities!



Hope you enjoyed seeing these. I am off to work in my classroom. Three weeks from today is our first day of school!