January Morning Work Materials

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January Morning Work

Materials Used In Activities

I always encourage teachers to use what they have or use what’s cheap. However, there are always teachers who would like to locate specific items that I may have used in activities. So I created a list below to help. Just click on any highlighted text to see where I secured various items.

1.Hang Your Mittens CVC Self-correcting Cards

  • Editable Sight Word Cards-(Activity #1)
  • Holiday Lights Letter Cards –Included in this packet
  • Plastic Clips or Clothespins

2.Snowball Sight Words and Winter Mittens

  • Plastic links or clothespins
  • Mitten cards (included inthis set) or foam mittens with letters written on them
  • Self-correcting CVC Snowball cards)
  • Response sheet (Included in this set and optional)

3.Linking Snowman Numbers and Quantities

  • Plastic links
  • Snowman Themed Number Cards and Quantity Cards printed on cardstock and laminated for durability (Included in this set)
  • Sensory bin with thematic items (fake snow, plastic pellets, buttons, seasonal erasers . . .)
  • Snowflake clothespin line (Dollar Store)

4.Snowy Sand Sight Words Trays

  • Editable Snowflake Sight Word Cards (available in this set)
  • Small cake pan or cookie sheet
  • Thematic Winter Pencil, or plastic icicles
  • Salt with white iridescent glitter

5.Snowy Playdoh Counting Math Mats

  • Dough Laminated number mats printed on cardstock for durability
  • Dough in wintery colors of blue and white

6. Snowy Dough Counting Making Ten

  • Dough Laminated number mats on cardstock for durability
  • Dough in wintery colors of blue and white
  • Dry erase markers
  • Mr. Clean Magic Erasers for erasing (optional)

7. Dough Make a Snowman, Design a Mitten

  • Playdoh or homemade dough in various colors
  • Plastic dough extruders
  • Child size scissors
  • Wintery Snowman and Mitten Dough Mats

8.Making Wintery Items With Dough

  • Various colors of dough
  • Wintery items cards laminated for durability

9.Winter Q-tip Painting

  • Q-tip picture sheets printed on white paper.
  • Q-tips
  • Washable tempera paint

10.Hidden Snowman Stuff in Dough (or Therapy Putty)

11.Hidden Snowman Stuff in Dough (or Putty) Sort It

12. Hidden Snowman Stuff, Find, Sort, Graph, and Count

13. Race To Fill Your Ice Bucket

  • 1 dice (use different types of dice to differentiate this activity)
  • Plastic Ice (or you could use ping pongs as snowballs)
  • 2 Mitten Tongs
  • Thematic buckets or containers (you can find these at Dollar Tree, Target or Walmart)

14. Snowy Ten Frame Self-Correcting Cards: How Many More To Make 10?

15.Snowman Grab, Spin, and Win

  • Ping pong balls decorated as snowmen with numbers written on them with a Sharpie
  • Tongs
  • Spinner card
  • (cd case and transparent spinner – optional)

16. Fill Your Mug With Marshmallows Self-Correcting Cards(0-10)

  • Counting marshmallows self-correcting cards printed on cardstock, laminated, and secured with a clothespin.
  • Counting marshmallows playing mat printed on cardstock and laminated for durability. (One for each student.)
  • Tongs
  • Small Mini Marshmallows or flat white marbles or pompoms

17.More Marshmallows Self-Correcting Cards (Plus One)

  • Self-correcting cards printed on cardstock, laminated and secured with a clothespin.
  • Playing mat printed on cardstock and laminated for durability. (One for each student.)
  • Tongs
  • Small mini marshmallows (or you could use pompoms or flat glass marbles)
  • Dry erase marker

18.Counting Snowflakes With One More and One Less Self-Correcting Cards

  • Self-correcting cards printed on cardstock, laminated and secured with a clothespin.
  • Playing mat printed on cardstock and laminated for durability. (One for each student.)
  • Tongs
  • Small snowflakes (or you could use pompoms or flat glass marbles)
  • Dry erase marker

19.Wintery Sticker Count

  • Sticker recording sheet printed on paper. One for each child. (There are two to choose from.)
  • One sheet allows students to trace and total up all the stickers used.
  • One sheet allows you to place a specific sticker next to a box. Students use those three types to outline the template and then count up the individual stickers of each type and record the number next to the sticker in the box.
  • Small thematic stickers or any small stickers you can find.

20.Wintery Gel Bead Sort

21.Wintery Gel Bead Roll and Win

22.Snow Ball Maze

23.Holiday Lego Challenge:  Mitten, Snowman, Penguin

24.Wintery Cut and Thread Straws

  • Yarn with taped ends for easier threading
  • Winter (blue and white, silver, white) colored straws
  • Scissors

25.Wintery Bead Patterns

26. Snowy Friends Constructing Letters and Words

27.Mitten Containers Count and Record

  • Small-dollar store containers.  You can find these on Amazon, but if you can get them at the Dollar Tree get them there because they are so much cheaper.  I just found a bunch so they should be in stock.
  • Paint pens to make a mitten
  • Small thematic candy can erasers from Target, flat white marbles, pompoms, pony beads or buttons
  • Recording mat printed on cardstock and laminated

28.Snowman Containers Adding Up

  • Small-dollar store containers
  • Paint Pens or Sharpie to make a snowman
  • Small Target erasers: Snowmen and Penguins (or make these using flat black and white flat marbles).
  • Recording sheet printed on cardstock and laminated.

29.Matching Mittens Lowercase/Capital Matching Puzzles

  • Small sensory bin with fun thematic filler
  • Capital/Lowercase Letter puzzles printed on one color of cardstock, laminated and cut apart.

30. Matching Mittens Letter Sounds Matching Puzzles

  • Small sensory bin with fun thematic filler
  • Lowercase/Beginning Letter Sounds puzzles printed on one color of cardstock, laminated and cut apart.

31.Matching Mittens CVC Words Matching Puzzles

  • Small sensory bin with thematic filler
  • CVC/Picture puzzle pieces printed on cardstock and laminated for durability.

32.Wintery Eraser Patterns (Penguins, Snowmen, Foxes)

  • Thematic erasers from Target. (You could use flat black, white and orange marbles and a paint pen to make these.)
  • Playing mat printed on cardstock and laminated
  • Self-correcting cards printed on cardstock, laminated and folded to hide the answer.
  • Clothespins (fun thematic foamy or item hot glued to clothespin optional)
  • Tongs or tweezers for moving items

33.Snowy Letter Match Up

  • Flat white colored marbles programmed with letters of your choice
  • One editable playing mat per student at a station with your selected letters (Included in this set.)
  • Tongs
  • Sensory bin with seasonal items (optional)

34.Snowy Sight Word Match Up

  • Flat white glass marbles that are programmed with sight words of your choice.
  • One editable playing mat per student at a station with your selected sight words. (Included in this set.)
  • Tongs
  • Sensory bin with seasonal items (optional)

35.Editable Sight Word Ice Fishing

36.Snowball Spell

  • Small piece of Styrofoam
  • Golf Tees
  • Ping pong balls programmed with letters.
  • Snowball sight word cards (included in this set).

37.  Colorful Snowflakes