My favorite part of the classroom...

Drumroll Please...my favorite part of my classroom is...

my sensory tub!  Any other preschool and pre-k teachers love this???

I have a total of three sensory tubs in my classroom.  This one stays the same all week and it usually the easiest to clean up.  It is open during morning "free play" and morning centers and it also correlates to the theme.  It was just changed today to reflect our American History/ Presidential theme, so I put in white rice, red crinkly paper, red cups, blue feathers and red, white and blue pom poms. 

My other two sensory tubs are big clear tubs with lids.  I usually put more messy or wet things in my clear sensory tubs like the water table, sand, rice, etc.  The reason I do this is because it's easier to clean because I can just sweep up around it.  My blue table is on a carpet and is used more frequently.

 I wanted to post some of my other sensory tubs just to get your juices flowing.

Ice Cream Sensory Tub

The bottom has pastel beads, multi-colored small and large pom poms and real ice cream cones!  Yummy :)

Dinosaur Sensory Tub

This was our dinosaur sensory tub which we will be using in two weeks for our dinosaur theme!  I'm not sure if your school is allowed to use food, but the brown "stuff" is brown sugar which is fun for the kids to mold and dig through.  I made the trees and added rocks and dinosaurs.  This was definitely a hit for the kids!

Orbeez Sensory Tub

This was our Orbeez Sensory Tub.  If you've never played with Orbeez, you are  missing out!  They are these tiny water filled "beads" that expand in the water.  They also bounce, but I don't tell my students that!

More to come! Enjoy and Happy Teaching,

Miss Danielle