Morning Work Tubs - Winter Fine Motor Bins for ELA and Math - January

What's the difference between dreading morning arrival time and loving it? Morning Work Tubs! Engage your kindergarten students with these WINTER Themed, fine motor-focused, morning work bins that explore new concepts and offer valuable practice through play for essential skills in both Math and ELA. In this set, you will find everything you need to organize, set up, and get started including 35 activities.

Why Morning Work:
►keeps students engaged in meaningful activities
►provides hands-on practice in essential skills for both ELA and Math concepts
►allows students to work cooperatively with other students
►allows the teacher to complete morning tasks while students work independently
►focuses on essential concepts and standards while incorporating fine motor skills

►builds student confidence as they manage materials and clean-up independently

►are differentiated so all students can feel successful

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Skills Targeted In This Set:
✅ fine motor skills
✅ tracing and cutting

✅ letter formation

✅ alphabetic concept

✅ letter/sound correspondance

✅ sight word work
✅ blending cvc words
✅ number recognition

✅ number formation

✅ counting
✅ number/quantity correspondence
✅ ten frame work
✅ sort and count
✅ greater/less than
✅ addition
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Here's What You'll Find Inside:

►35 Winter Fine Motor Tub Activity Printables (including some editable ones for sight word work)

►'I Can . . .' cards with picture and activity instructions to build independence for each station
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What teachers are saying:

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "Is there a "6-star rating? These morning bins have changed my life. The students are so engaged by the goodies and it is so easy to change them out monthly, or even add new ones as the month goes along. All of these have so many options and they are all super! I need to buy the whole year bundle for my students. I am just overjoyed at the creativity in all of this. It leaves them wanting more time AND they are so easy to clean up when you organize as suggested. The fine motor skills that have improved since I introduced these have been a tremendous difference. I'm just so grateful to have this resource in my classroom."

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "I use this resource and all the other months in my fine motor bins throughout the year. I love how the skills build upon each other. It is a great way for my students to start their day. "

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "My students love these activities each month! The wide variety of options makes it so they have new choices whenever I switch out the activities, and they are always excited and engaged! Thank you!"

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Station Activities Included In This Set

• Hang Your Mittens CVC Self-correcting Cards
• Snowball Sight Words and Winter Mittens
• Linking Snowman Numbers and Quantities
• Snowy Sand Sight Words Trays
• Snowy Playdoh Counting Math Mats
• Snowy Dough Counting Making Ten
• Dough Make a Snowman, Design a Mitten
• Making Wintery Items With Dough
• Winter Q-tip Painting
• Hidden Snowman Stuff in Dough (or Therapy Putty)
• Hidden Snowman Stuff in Dough (or Putty) Sort It
• Hidden Snowman Stuff, Find, Sort, Graph and Count
• Race To Fill Your Ice Bucket
• Snowy Ten Frame Self-correcting Cards: How Many More To Make 10?
• Snowman Grab, Spin and Win
• Fill Your Mug With Marshmallows Self-Correcting Cards(0-10)
• More Marshmallows Self-Correcting Cards (Plus One)
• Counting Snowflakes With One More and One Less Self-Correcting Cards
• Wintery Sticker Count
• Wintery Gel Bead Sort
• Wintery Gel Bead Roll and Win
• Snow Ball Maze
• Holiday Lego Challenge: Mitten, Snowman, Penguin
• Wintery Cut and Thread Straws
• Wintery Bead Patterns
• Snowy Friends Constructing Letters and Words
• Mitten Containers Count and Record
• Snowman Containers Adding Up
• Matching Mittens Lowercase/Capital Matching Puzzles
• Matching Mittens Letter Sounds Matching Puzzles
• Matching Mittens CVC Words Matching Puzzles
• Wintery Eraser Patterns (Penguins and Snowmen)
• Snowy Letter Match Up
• Snowy Sight Word Match Up
• Editable Sight Word Ice Fishing
• Snowball Spell
• Colorful Beaded Snowflakes

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►►►If you'd like to see a detailed account of how I implement Morning Work Tubs, what is included in each set and the materials used, check out my Morning Work Stations page for all the details HERE.

►►►To see these specific activities in action, you can check out my January Morning Work Stations blog post HERE.

Important Teacher Instructions:

Parts of this product may include editable activities. Here's what you need to know in order to make those parts of the packet work for you.

• It is very important that you have the latest version of Adobe Reader loaded on your computer. You must use Adobe Reader to open this file and make it editable.
• If you don't have Adobe Reader, it is a free download you can get just by Googling "Latest Version of Adobe Reader."
• Once you have Adobe Reader downloaded and installed, restart your computer.
• You should now be able to edit any of the blue shaded areas of this packet and the font will be "primary friendly."

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☀️ Morning Work Tubs - Fine Motor Bins for ELA and Math - May

☀️ Morning Work Tubs - Fine Motor for ELA - Math - Year Long Bundle - Kindergarten

☀️ Morning Work Tubs - Halloween Fine Motor Bins for ELA and Math - October

☀️ Morning Work Tubs - Pet Themed Fine Motor Bins

☀️ Morning Work Tubs - Spring Fine Motor Bins for ELA and Math - April

☀️ Morning Work Tubs - St. Patrick's Day Fine Motor Bins for ELA and Math - March

☀️ Morning Work Tubs - Summer Fine Motor Bins for ELA and Math - June

☀️ Morning Work Tubs - Valentine's Fine Motor Bins - ELA & Math - February

☀️ Morning Work Tubs - Winter Fine Motor Bins for ELA and Math - January

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Thank you!
Marsha