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Morning Work Activities for October

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October Morning Work Stations

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.

The following is a list of items used for October’s Morning Work Stations.

1.  Trace and Cut Lines

  • Child-size scissors
  • Tracing and cutting sheets -available in the packet.

2.  Tracing Cards

  • Laminated tracing cards – available in the packet
  • Dry erase markers

3.  Cutting Straws and Making Patterned Necklaces

  • Thematic colored paper straws – You can find these at Walmart or Hobby Lobby.
  • Child-size scissors
  • Black yarn (I place a small piece of tape on one end to help with stringing.)

4.  Measuring With Links

5.  Linking Letters in Your Name or Words

  • Plastic links
  • Laminated and hole punched letter cards-available in the packet
  • Laminated link word cards (optional) – available in the packet11

6.  Linking Numbers In Order

  • Plastic links
  • Laminated and hole punched number cards-available in the packet

7.  Linking Letters In Alphabet Order

  • Plastic links
  • Laminated and hole punched letter cards – available in the packet

8.  Hole Punches To Represent Numbers 1-20

9.  Use Dough to Make Pumpkin or Monster

  • Play-doh
  • Laminated monster and pumpkin mats – available in this packet

10. Use Dough to Represent Numbers and Ten Frame

  • Play-doh
  • Pumpkin number mats – available in the packet as either with or without ten frames completed

11.  Use a Push Pin to Follow The Dotted Line

12.  Rescue The Aliens From Putty

13.  Find The Hidden Googly Eyes and Sort

14.  Find The Hidden Googly Eyes, Sort and Count How Many

15.  Pumpkin Roll Game With Tongs

16.  Pumpkin Self-correcting Ten Frames

  • Pumpkin erasers – Target, Dollar Tree, Walmart
  • Orange Pompoms – if you can’t find erasers
  • Pumpkin Ice Tray – Dollar Tree, Walmart
  • Pumpkin Ten Frame Mat – available in this packet in case you can not locate the ice trays
  • Laminated self-correcting ten frame cards
  • Thematic Clothes Pins – I glued wooden pumpkins (Hobby Lobby) to clothespins

17.  Catching Flies Counting Game

18.  Googly Eye Grab and Spin Number Recognition

19.  Webmaster Game

  • Small basket with holes in the side so you can thread yarn to make a web
  • Small plastic spiders –  Dollar Tree or Walmart
  • Yarn
  • Tongs

20.  Poison Spiders Number Recognition

21. Sticker Picture

  • Thematic stickers
  • Sticker picture (one per child printed on paper) – available in this packet

22.  Gel Bead Sort

23.  Gel Bead Roll and Win

24.  Lego Masterpieces

25.  Letter Construction

26.  Sensory Bin Number Match

  • Small plastic tub
  • Bulk black beans
  • Fun thematic pieces (plastic spiders, erasers . . .) – Dollar Tree
  • Laminated Ten Frame Bat/Moon Number Match Cards-available in this set
  • Thematic Clothes Pins – I glued fun little wooden bats (Hobby Lobby) to clothespins
  • Twine – Target

27.  Jack-O-Lantern Count and Record

  • Small round plastic containers – Dollar Tree
  • Orange and black paint pens
  • Pumpkin erasers – Target Dollar Spot or Walmart
  • Laminated recording mat
  • Tweezers

28.  Ghost Containers Sort, Add and Record

  • Small round plastic containers- Dollar Tree
  • Black Sharpie
  • Erasers from Target – either cats and spiders or skulls and spiders
  • Laminated recording mats- available in this packet
  • Dry Eraser marker
  • Tweezers

29.  Climbing Spiders

  • Paper straws in Halloween colors – Hobby Lobby or Walmart
  • small container to use as a base (I used a plastic black shot glass)
  • Clay – Put this is the bottom of the class to act as an anchor and a weight so it doesn’t fall over.
  • Spider rings
  • Dice

30.  Pumpkin Sounds/Letters Match-Up

  • Small-sized container
  • Black beans
  • Thematic filler (spiders, bats, erasers . . . )
  • Laminated and cut apart – Pumpkin letters

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31.  Self-correcting Counting Spiders and Googly Eyes

  • Googly eyes – Dollar Tree
  • Spider erasers or plastic spiders – Target
  • Laminated playing mats-available in packet
  • Laminated self-correcting playing cards – available in the packet
  • Thematic clothes pins – I cut off the backs of spider rings and hot glued them to clothespins and then I glued on googly eyes to clothespins

32.  Spooky Spider Patterns

  • Spider buttons (or colored pompoms)
  • Tweezers
  • Laminated self-correcting pattern cards -available in the packet
  • Thematic spider clothes-pins-I glued on the black spider buttons to my clothespins
  • Laminated playing mat-available in packet