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Pre-K April Math and Literacy Centers

The start of spring is a magical time of year. Flowers are blooming, the weather is warming up, the sun is shining, and the end of the school year is creeping closer by the day. To kick off the season let’s celebrate with these Pre-K April Math and Literacy Centers!

During the spring, a lot of changes occur In the classroom, for both teachers and students. There are great things about spring in the classroom, like how connected the students are and seeing them grasp concepts and skills that they’ve been working on all year. But there are also tougher parts, like that everyone is a little *too* comfortable with each other, and tricky behaviors can show up out of nowhere. Plus, everyone, including me, is tired. 

The good news is this: there are so many wonderful themes and topics to cover in the spring that it’s easy to make the days a little more upbeat! To welcome spring we look at all the flowers around us beginning to blossom. We create our own flowers with this potato painting craft and build our names out of flowers.

As Easter nears, these Easter keepsake crafts are great projects for students to bring home to parents and family. We also make these bunny fingerprint crafts to display on a bulletin board for spring. Kids take so much pride in seeing their creations displayed!

We can also engage our students in some springtime science. To introduce the weather changes, our little scientists do the water cycle in a bottle experiment. We use this Rabbits Animal Study for Pre-K to connect animals with the season. It’s an exciting time learning about our fluffy little friends with this easy-prep unit.

Later on in April, we learn about and celebrate Earth Day. This Earth Day Science Unit for Pre-K is an age-appropriate way to teach our littlest learners about helping the earth. And we keep learning new things about our planet with our collection of Earth Day books.

And of course, all spring long we keep our centers and stations filled with Easter, Earth Day, and springtime fun. I like to have one digital station where I use these Pre-K digital games for Google Slides. The April pre-k centers are so adorable and the kids love reviewing skills this way. 

As for the rest of my centers, I never miss a month of using my math and literacy centers. These hands-on April Math and Literacy Centers for Pre-K ensure that your students will be so entertained they won’t even realize how much they’re learning. 

Discover engaging and interactive Pre-K April Math and Literacy Centers that make learning fun. Boost your students' skills with our hands-on activities and resources.

April Math and Literacy Centers for Pre-K

With festive and adorable clipart, these April pre-k classroom activities will make planning your month of centers and lessons a breeze. With 20 April pre-k math centers and 20 April pre-k literacy centers, you’ll have your pick of activities to use with your students all month long. 

Whether used in centers or stations, as whole group activities, or even in your small groups, these spring pre-k learning centers will be your new favorite resource.

Discover engaging and interactive Pre-K April Math and Literacy Centers that make learning fun. Boost your students' skills with our hands-on activities and resources.

The April Pre-K Centers Include:

4 weeks of April Pre-K Literacy Centers:

  • Pocket Chart and Match-Up Centers for Pre-K 
  • 4 Sets of Writing Cards and Writing Center Papers 
  • Poetry Journals, Notebooks, and Materials for 4 Different Poems
  • Write & Wipe Activities
  • Puzzles
  • Write the Room Pre-K Activities 

Giving you a total of 20 early literacy activities for April! 

4 weeks of April Pre-K Math Centers:

  • Dice Games, to play individually or with partners
  • Write & Wipe Activities
  • Partner Games, to play in pairs
  • Puzzles 
  • Match-Up Center Activities
  • Math Write the Room Centers

Adding up to 20 Pre-K April math centers!

Altogether, you’ll have 40 centers to use with your students in just one single month. 

The skills covered in the Pre-K math centers for April:

  • Number ID, Adding to 5, Graphing, Subitizing, Ten Frames, Sorting, Comparing, Measuring, 2D and 3D Shapes, Ordinal Numbers, Subtraction, Counting On…and more!

The skills covered in the Pre-K literacy centers for April:

  • Poetry, Writing, Sequencing, Compound Words, Sight Words, Alliteration, Syllables, Beginning Sounds, Uppercase and Lowercase Letters, CVC Words, Rhyming…and more!
Bring the magic of spring into your classroom with Pre-K April Math and Literacy Centers. Our hands-on activities encourage skill-building and a love for learning in young students.

Using the April Pre-K Centers

40 centers is a lot, I know. But, you don’t have to use them all at once! You can split them up in whichever way best works for you. You can use one variation of each type of center a week, or you can pick and choose your favorites. With these spring-themed pre-k math and literacy activities and games, your options really are endless. Here are some more tips to get you ready to use your Pre-K April Math and Literacy Printables: 

  • After purchasing the centers, look through the full month of centers for each subject and write down what you want and plan to use. Make a list of what needs to be printed, copied, laminated, cut, etc. Doing this the month ahead is always a good idea!
  • Think about what will help your future self the most. Printing on quality paper and laminating will help you have a lot less prep work to do next year. 
  • Decide how you will introduce the centers. Will you show all four weeks of each center at one time? Or will you show your students each center as you go through the month, maybe only a few a week? Whatever you decide, there is no wrong choice!
  • Most importantly, model and set expectations clearly for each type of center. Assist students during the first few rounds of using the materials before giving them more independence. You can even do centers as whole group activities the first time around before allowing students to use them in small groups. 

No matter how you implement these centers in your classroom, there is guaranteed to be a lot of learning and excitement going on all month long!

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Discover engaging and interactive Pre-K April Math and Literacy Centers that make learning fun. Boost your students' skills with our hands-on activities and resources.

Spring Pre-K Literacy Centers

Write & Wipe 
Write and wipe activities are so easy and fun. Just laminate and you’re ready to go! Your students can practice tracing and writing uppercase and lowercase letters and tracing CVC words with April’s pre-k write and wipe centers. 

Puzzles
Puzzles are great to have on hand for early finishers or to put on a rug or in a game center. The two April puzzles review beginning sounds and rhyming. 

Poem of the week Earth Day poem for prek students

Poetry
One of my favorite things to do is to introduce poems to my pre-k students. The April pre-k centers come with three original spring-themed poems and one nursery rhyme. With poetry journals and notebooks, your young learners can practice reading along with you, tracing words, finding rhymes, and looking for certain letters. 

Spring sentence scramble for prek students

Pocket Chart and Match-Ups
Do your pre-k students love to tell you how to do things? Use the “How to Grow a Plant” sequencing activity that is part of this month’s collection, and let your students practice retelling the steps of planting a seed. The rest of the activities include a springtime sentence scramble, an editable sight word hide and seek game, and a match-up activity practicing compound words. 

The cat is so big prek april activities

Write the Room
Do you use write the room activities in your classroom? The great part about these activities is that you don’t have to use them as a write the room if you don’t want to. They work perfectly fine as task cards at a center table as well. The April pre-k literacy write the room centers cover skills like syllables, beginning sounds, alliteration, and counting words. Your students will have such a great time traveling around the room with their recording sheets that they will forget they’re working hard on these skills!  

Easter words for prek students. Butterfly, caterpillar, ant, bee

Writing
With pre-k-friendly writing materials, these writing center cards and resources will allow your students to use their imaginations to draw and tell lots of stories this spring! The April word cards include Easter words, Garden words, Earth Day words, and Insect words. 

partner spin and cover color and shape game for prek students

Pre-K April Math Centers

Partner Games
With April’s partner games, your pre-k students can practice:

  • Numbers 0-10 with a “Catch the Bunny” board game
  • Adding and taking away 1 with a “Race to 10” game
  • Sorting colors and shapes with a “Spin and Color” game
  • Comparing weight with a card game  

Your students will enjoy playing with partners while practicing these math skills! 

Match-Up Activities and Puzzles
The pre-k April puzzles are easy to prep and easy to use. Your students can put number puzzles together that have them matching numbers with the corresponding ten frames and also work on counting on with adorable egg puzzles. The match-up activities for April include an Earth Day patterns activity and a matching numbers to fingers activity. 

Write the room 3d shapes printable for prek students in april

Write the Room
With another great set of spring-themed activities, the April pre-k math write the room centers will help your students practice counting to 10, shapes, recognizing capacity, and counting on. With four math and four literacy write the room activities for the month of April, your students will never be bored! 

Dice Games
Get your students learning and engaged with these four April dice games. Your pre-k students can build a bunny, practice graphing, complete a color by number activity, and play a roll and cover/color game, all with little to no prep from you. These games are easy enough to just throw out on the table and use! 

Write & Wipe
These pre-k write and wipe activities are so cute! The best part is, if you laminate them or put them in page protectors, you can use them for many Aprils to come. The four write and wipe activities for April cover these skills:

  • Ordinal numbers
  • Addition
  • 2D Shapes
  • Subtraction
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Spring into Learning: April Math and Literacy Centers for Kindergarten

The season of spring is like taking a breath of fresh air. The days are longer, the flowers are blooming, and the weather is improving with every day that passes. April is such an exciting time in the kindergarten classroom! With spring in full swing, my students are full of energy and enthusiasm for learning. That’s why I incorporate these April Math and Literacy Centers for Kindergarten throughout the month.

Do your students love storytime? My kids look forward to gathering on the carpet to listen to a story. I always keep a basket of themed books near the rug and this list of spring read-alouds has some of my favorites for this season. I like to follow up on our spring stories with nature-inspired activities. This easy spring fingerprint craft and our Spring Flower Potato Painting Activity are easy to prep and the final products make for the perfect spring bulletin board in the classroom. 

And while it is only April, the end of the school year is slowly creeping closer. I use spring activities for learning, like this April Literacy Journal, each day to help my students review their previously learned skills from earlier in the year. We can also practice and review skills with these editable puzzles when we celebrate Earth Day. Other Earth Day activities like this science unit help our young learners understand the importance of caring for the Earth. We always throw in some games with a seasonal theme; one of our student favorites is Spring Bingo. The giggles are contagious!

Keeping our kindergarten students learning while having fun this spring is made easy with these April Math and Literacy Centers for kindergarten. These spring centers are packed with engaging activities and resources that help our students develop important skills while also celebrating the joys of the season.

Spring into Learning with our April math and literacy centers for Kindergarten, providing hands-on activities your little learners will enjoy all month long.

April Math and Literacy Centers for Kindergarten

You won’t believe how much you can do with these April-themed math and literacy centers for kindergarten. 

Do you have your students rotate through centers or stations during math and literacy? Are you always looking for new activities to use in your small groups? Maybe you don’t run centers, but do you like to switch up the activities and lessons that you use with your entire class? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then these April kindergarten centers are a necessity for you! 

Covered in adorable spring, Easter, and Earth Day clipart, these spring-themed activities will give you 20 math and 20 literacy activities to use with your kindergarten students all April long. 

Spring into Learning with our April math and literacy centers for Kindergarten, providing hands-on activities your little learners will enjoy all month long.

Included in the April Kindergarten Centers

4 weeks of April Literacy Centers for Kindergarten:

  • 4 Poems and Poetry Center Materials
  • Writing Center Materials and 4 Sets of Writing Center Cards 
  • 4 Pocket Chart and Match-Up Activities 
  • 2 Write & Wipe Activities
  • 2 Puzzles
  • 4 Write the Room Activities with Differentiated Recording Sheets 

Adding up to 20 literacy activities for kindergarten! 

4 weeks of April Math Centers for Kindergarten:

  • 4 Dice Games
  • 4 Write & Wipe Centers
  • 4 Partner Games
  • 2 Puzzles 
  • 2 Match-Up Activities
  • 4 Write the Room Centers with Differentiated Recording Sheets

Giving you 20 April math centers for kindergarten! 

If you haven’t been counting, that equals FORTY printable April centers for kindergarten learners to use this spring. That is a lot of material to choose from! 

The skills covered in the April math centers:

  • 2D Shapes, 3D Shapes, Coins, Subitizing, Number ID, Subtraction, Addition, Word Problems, Decomposing/Composing Numbers, Number Order, Counting, One More/One Less, Graphing…and more!

The skills covered in the April literacy centers:

  • Poetry, Writing, Sequencing, Sight Words, Alliteration, CCVC/CVCC Words, Digraphs, Blends, Word Families, Decoding…and more!

Using the April Kindergarten Centers

Are you feeling overwhelmed with the FORTY April-themed centers for kindergarten that come with this resource? Don’t worry, we’re here to help! Remember there is no “right way” to use the centers, you can pick and choose which ones to use with your students and go from there. Here are some tips to get you started: 

  • After you purchase the centers, take a look at each set and write down what you plan to use. Figure out what you need to print out, copy, laminate, and cut. It’s always best to do this the month ahead, if you can. 
  • Remember that the first year of using these April kindergarten centers will be the most time consuming, but you can help out your future self by printing some of the centers on cardstock and laminating them for repeat future use. 
  • Think about how you will introduce all the centers and activities to your students. Will you introduce one set a week? Or all at once? Remember, it’s whatever works best for you and your students! 
  • Make sure to model and set clear expectations for the centers. Model each math and literacy activity explicitly and assist students the first time in the centers. 

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Spring kindergarten literacy puzzles

April Literacy Centers for Kindergarten

Write & Wipe and Puzzles 
I use puzzles and write and wipe activities for my early finishers. They are easy to store and the kids can pull them out whenever they have a few extra minutes. The April puzzles and write and wipe activities cover these skills: blends, CCVC words, CVCC words, CVC words, and manipulating the ending sound in words. 

April kindergarten poem of the week printables

Poetry
Your students can practice rhyming and reading during April with 3 spring-themed poems and 1 nursery rhyme. The poems are about spring, rain, and Earth Day while the nursery rhyme is a common favorite called “Are you Sleeping?” Use the provided poetry notebooks and journal materials to have your students do so much more than read. Interacting with each poem will keep your students engaged and learning all month long. 

Pocket Chart and Match-Ups
Since you’ll probably be talking about plants and gardening this spring, you’re sure to love the sequencing activity that comes in this month’s bundle. Your students can practice sequencing the steps of growing a plant and can use the differentiated writing sheets to write the steps down. These spring activities for kinder also include a sentence scramble activity, an alliteration match-up, and an editable sight word hide-and-seek activity. 

Kindergarten write the room digraphs

Write the Room
We know that there will surely be some rainy days during spring, and there is no better way to get our kids up and moving while learning than with these literacy write the room activities. Your kindergarteners can practice blends, CCVC words, CVCC words, digraphs, decoding, and encoding with these spring and Easter activities.

April Kindergarten Spring writing words

Writing
Give your little learners writing cards and materials this April and see what they come up with! This month’s writing topics include Earth Day words, Easter words, Garden words, and Insect words. Display one set a week or give all four sets at once, it’s up to you! 

Spring catch the bunny dice game

April Math Centers for Kindergarten 

Partner Games
These partner games make for a super engaging math center for your students. With a “Catch the Bunny” gameboard, a more/less spinner game, a number comparison card game, and a bunny “race to the top” game, your students will be having so much fun practicing their math skills that they won’t even realize they’re learning. 

kindergarten number puzzles for spring

Match-Up Activities and Puzzles
Puzzles and match-up activities are easy centers to set up and teach to your students. These April math centers for kindergarten cover skills like addition word problems, attributes of 2D and 3D shapes, one more/one less, and subtraction word problems. 

spring math write the room 1 more 1 less activity

Write the Room
Write the room activities are great for moving around the room, but can also be used as task cards at a center. These April write the room activities cover these math skills: 2D shapes, graphing, missing number/number order, and one more/one less. 

roll & cover and color dice game for kindergarten spring activities

Dice Games
All you need for these games are some dice! How easy is that? Your kindergarten students will have a blast playing the “Roll a Bunny” game, completing a “Color by Code” activity while practicing subtraction, practicing graphing with a “Roll and Graph” activity, and playing a simple “Roll and Cover or Color” activity with these spring math centers. 

Write & Wipe
Covering skills like adding to ten, identifying coins, missing numbers on a hundreds chart, and number sense for numbers one through twenty, these write and wipe activities will be a huge help for your students that need repetitive practice with familiar math skills. 

Enhance your Kindergartener's learning with our April math and literacy centers, packed with engaging activities and spring-themed resources.

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Engaging April Centers for First Grade Math and Literacy

I love April! It’s the first full month of spring and, for us down here in Texas, the last full month of the school year. The weather is warm and the plants are blooming all around us. The excitement for summer and the end of the school year is in the air! I also get excited about using these interactive and engaging April centers for first grade. What a great way to bloom into spring with fun and learning all in one!

Most years, April brings Easter, although sometimes it sneaks in at the end of March. We celebrate Easter with these engaging read alouds and this fun bingo game. We study plants with our Plants Science Unit and learn about the life cycle of a flower with this craftivity. 

Later on in April, we celebrate Earth Day and discuss the importance of taking care of the earth with this emergent reader. We can even help our first graders practice telling time with these spring time puzzles.

To keep my first graders busy all during this month of sun and growth, I’ve created these math and literacy centers for April. With springtime themes and adorable clipart, your students won’t even realize they’re learning while they have fun with these April-themed centers for first grade. 

Get your students excited about learning with these interactive and engaging April centers for first grade math and literacy. Designed to enhance skills and encourage creativity, these activities are perfect for your classroom.

April Math and Literacy Centers for First Grade 

With 20 literacy centers and 20 math centers, your students will be able to review various first grade standards and skills, all while having a blast. 

These hands-on math and literacy centers for first grade are a fabulous resource to keep on hand to use during center or station rotations, small groups, or even as whole-class activities. You’ll adore the versatility of these spring-themed centers for first grade, and your first graders will have a blast with all the fun they get to have while learning! 

Looking for easy and engaging April centers for first grade math and literacy? Look no further! Our activities are designed to keep your child learning and having fun all month long.

Included in the First Grade Math and Literacy Centers for April

4 weeks of April Literacy Centers for First Grade:

  • Pocket Chart and Match-Up Activities 
  • Cards and Materials for your Writing Center
  • Puzzles and Write & Wipe Activities
  • Poetry Center Materials
  • Write the Room Centers

Giving you 20 April first grade literacy activitIes!

4 weeks of April Math Centers for First Grade: 

  • Write & Wipe Activities
  • Dice Games
  • Partner Games
  • Write the Room Activities
  • Puzzles and Match-Ups

Adding up to 20 April first grade math centers!

All together, this product gives you 40 printable math and literacy activities for April.

The Math Centers cover these skills:

  • Place Value, Graphing, Word Problems, Addition, Coins, Fractions, Number Order, 10 More/10 Less, Subtraction, Expanded Notation, Skip Counting, Comparing Numbers…and more!

The Literacy Centers cover these skills:

  • Poetry, Writing, Sequencing, Sight Words, Vowel Teams, Segmenting Words, Trigraphs, Digraphs, Word Families, Contractions…and more!
Get your child excited about learning with these interactive and engaging April centers for first grade math and literacy. Designed to enhance skills and encourage creativity, these activities are perfect for early learners.

Using these April Centers for First Grade

With 40 springtime centers to use with your first grade students, it can understandably be overwhelming to decide how to set them up and use them in your classroom. Here are some tips for you to check out after you purchase the centers.

  • Plan ahead! Do you have the full year of our first grade centers? Prep the centers during the previous month so that you can decide what needs to be printed, copied, laminated, and cut before you need to use them. 
  • The first time you use the centers, it will probably be a lot of work, but printing on cardstock and/or laminating can help you keep many of the pieces for the following year. Pro tip: before storing the centers away, make a class set of all the black and white consumables, like the recording sheets, and store them away with the other materials. Your future self will thank you!  
  • Pick and choose what centers you’ll want to use with your students during the month. Will you model all of the activities at the beginning of the month? Or will you do it one week at a time? There is no right answer, do what’s best for you!
  • Set clear and understandable expectations for each type of center. I like to model each activity explicitly before I let my students anywhere near the materials. After they do each center a few times, they’ll be accustomed to the format and the need for help from you will be a lot less! 

Materials suggested for the April Centers: 

April Literacy Centers and Activities for First Grade

Poetry
With three April poems and one nursery rhyme, your students will learn to enjoy poetry as much as we do! With age-appropriate language, students can practice rhyming, identifying patterns and parts of speech, and visualizing the poems. The Earth Day poem in this set of April poems is definitely one of my favorites!

Pocket Chart and Match-Ups
The pocket chart writing activities for April include a “How to Grow a Plant” sequencing and writing activity and a springtime sentence scramble. The pocket chart match-ups include a sight word hide and seek game and a vowel team match-up for your first graders to play together. 

ai word families for April first grade centers for literacy

Write & Wipe and Puzzles 
Your students will have fun building puzzles while practicing vowel teams and contractions this April. The write and wipe activities are easy to do with a page protector (if you don’t laminate them) and a dry erase marker. Your first graders can practice spelling words with digraphs and different word families while having fun with these activities. 

Writing
Inspire your little writers this spring with different writing cards and materials each week. Give students word cards for topics like Earth Day, Easter, Garden, and Insects, and see where their imagination takes them. I guarantee you’ll get some incredible pieces of writing by the end of the month! 

Get your students excited about learning with these fun and engaging math and literacy centers for April. Designed to enhance skills and encourage creativity, these activities are perfect for your classroom!

Write the Room
Get your first grade kiddos up and moving this April with these write the room activities. Students can practice manipulating the middle sound in words, decoding words with digraphs, segmenting sounds, and working with trigraphs while making their way around the room. Of course, if you’d rather have everyone sitting down, these work as task cards at a center as well!

Race to 101 april math centers for first grade

April Math Centers and Activities for First Grade 

Partner Games
My students love any chance they get to play games with their classmates. That’s why these partner games are perfect for each month of the year! For April, your first graders can play together while practicing fractions, number order, coins, and adding and subtracting. I like to use these games for my early finishers too. 

catch the bunny dice game spring math centers for first grade

Dice Game Centers
Hand your students some dice (preferably foam, because ouch, my ears!) and let them have at it with these engaging, springtime dice games. Students will have a great time building a bunny, coloring by code, coloring/covering, and graphing with these dice game activities. 

Match-Up Activities and Puzzles
Covering skills such as fractions, money, place value, and telling time, your first graders will be so busy with these match up activities and puzzles that they won’t even realize they’re learning! 

place value first grade centers

Write the Room
With the warmer weather and nicer days, your students will be itching to get outside and run around as much as possible. Unfortunately, with spring weather comes rain, so there will surely be days where we’re stuck inside all day. But don’t worry, these math write the room activities are the perfect way to get your first graders out of their seats, all while continuing their learning! The April math write the room activities cover these skills: comparing numbers, counting coins, place value, and skip counting. 

make a 10 write and wipe first grade spring centers

Write & Wipe
Whether you choose to laminate or stick these centers in page protectors, your firsties will love using these write and wipe centers. The April write and wipe math centers cover skills like missing addends, expanded notation, making 10, and telling time.  

Get your students excited about learning with these fun and engaging math and literacy centers for April. Designed to enhance skills and encourage creativity, these activities are perfect for your classroom!

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Bring on spring with these engaging April Centers for First Grade Math and Literacy.

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Get your students excited about learning with these fun and engaging math and literacy centers for April. Designed to enhance skills and encourage creativity, these activities are perfect for your classroom!

Hands-On St. Patrick’s Day Word Building Activity Bundle

How do you feel about the month of March in your classroom? I love March, because it means the end of winter and the start of spring! Plus, we have spring break in March, so the month is broken up with a fun week of vacation. But March can also seem extremely long when you’re still in the depths of winter, especially if your students are stuck inside during recess. Break up the month with some hands-on St. Patrick’s Day activities that will get your kids learning without even realizing they’re learning!

St. Patrick’s Day falls on March 17th every year. I love to spend the month incorporating leprechauns, shamrocks, and gold coins into our learning. Some of my favorite read-alouds for the month come from this St. Patrick’s Day book list. And I love to build in hands-on St. Patrick’s Day activities like this shamrock thumbprint craft and this First to 20 math game. 

When it comes to literacy centers for the month of March, I use various St. Patrick’s Day word building resources for students to learn from – like these CVC puzzles and blends match-ups. But my favorite way to help my students practice encoding and blending words is with these St. Patrick’s Day word building centers. With one bundle, I can help my students practice CVC, CVCC, CCVC, and CVCE words, all with a St. Patrick’s Day theme. This bundle is great for differentiating and is a must-have for March lesson plans!

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St. Patrick’s Day Word Building Activity Bundle 

This bundle comes jam-packed with four engaging St. Patrick’s Day literacy centers for early learning. Whether your students are working on CVC words, words with digraphs and blends, or words with long vowels, this bundle has you covered for the entire month of March.

Teachers love to use these St. Patrick’s Day centers in their literacy stations, as morning work, or as work for early finishers. It’s great to have all four sets of activities on hand so that you can differentiate to meet all of your students’ needs. These St. Patrick’s Day vocabulary building activities are the perfect addition to your literacy center rotation! 

Help your students build their vocabulary and language skills with our St. Patrick's Day word building activity bundle. These hands-on activities are perfect for engaging little learners.

Inside You’ll Find: 

  • St. Patrick’s Day CVC Word Building Activities: 30 CVC Words, in color and black & white
  • St. Patrick’s Day CCVC Word Building Activities: 31 CCVC Words, in color and black & white
  • St. Patrick’s Day CVCC Word Building Activities: 30 CVCC Words, in color and black & white
  • St. Patrick’s Day CVCE Word Building Activities: 33 CVCE Words, in color and black & white 

St. Patrick’s Day CVC Word Building Activities

With 60 pages of printables, these St. Patrick’s Day word family activities will be great to use with your kindergarten students. With familiar CVC words for each short vowel and adorable clipart, students can spell each word with gold coins and place them atop or next to the pot of gold. 

St. Patrick’s Day CCVC Word Building Activities

The CCVC word building activities are great for your students who are working on beginning digraphs and beginning blends. Students can use the gold coins to build words like “flag,” “ship,” and “club” next to or on top of the pot of gold. With 62 pages of printables, you can choose from the black and white or colored option for your center. 

St. Patrick’s Day CVCC Word Building Activities

With 30 CVCC word activities in both color and black & white, you can help your students practice encoding words with ending blends. The clipart features words like “belt,” “dump,” and “king” and the words can all be built using the corresponding letter gold coins. 

St. Patrick’s Day CVCE Word Building Activities

Are your students working on king Ed? Silent E? Magic E? Long vowels? No matter what you call it, working on CVCE words is an exciting step in your instruction. The kids are able to expand the list of words that they know how to read and write with common words like “bike,” “home,” and “ride.” These St. Patrick’s Day CVCE word building activities include 33 words, in both color and black & white, to have your students work on. 

What you’ll need to prep the St. Patrick’s Day Word Building Activities:

Cutting the word gum for St. Patrick's Day word building activity

Getting the St. Patrick’s Day Word Building Activities Ready 

After you purchase the word building bundle, there are a few options when it comes to printing and prepping these St. Patrick’s Day centers. My favorite way is to print out the color version of the activities, then laminate and cut them. I separate each type of word (CVC, CVCC, CCVC, CVCE) into baggies until I want to use them. 

Celebrate St. Patrick's Day with this fun and educational hands-on word building activity bundle! Perfect for kindergarten and early elementary students.

Another option is to print the black & white versions on colored copy paper. I highly recommend laminating the centers no matter which version you decide to use, as it will boost the longevity of the activity. We all know that when non-laminated paper gets in the hands of 20+ kindergarteners, those centers aren’t lasting very long! 

And of course, if necessary, you can print the black and white versions of the centers on regular copy paper, laminate them, and then cut them. If you are working with a child at home, they will enjoy coloring the activities themselves.

The best part about these St. Patrick’s Day word building centers is that after the initial prep of printing, laminating, and cutting, these centers are easy to pull out and use with your students all March long! Take a look at how I keep my language arts materials organized.

St. Patrick's Day word building with fin and gift on pots of gold

Using the St. Patrick’s Day Word Building Activities

What better way to switch up your literacy centers this March than with these fun St. Patrick’s Day word building activities for kindergarten? After you’ve done the initial prep, these vocabulary building activities can be placed in a center using baskets or bins, or in a pocket chart. I like to have a pile for the pot of gold word cards in one place and the gold coin letters in another.

Students can start with a pot of gold card, name the picture, and then search through the gold coins to find the correct letters. One idea to extend their learning is to provide writing paper with this activity. Students can list the words that they spell, or you can even challenge them to write sentences with the words. My students love to show what they know and have me come check out their gold coin words, and I love how I can differentiate for whatever my students need at that time of year with the 4 different word options.

Gum, Rose and Drum words for St. Patrick's Day word building

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St. Patrick’s Day Number Match-Up

St. Patrick’s Day is March 17th and it’s always so fun to celebrate in the classroom! My students love to make leprechaun traps and look for rainbows and pots of gold. And since there aren’t too many other special happenings in March, I enjoy using the St. Patrick’s Day theme all month long. Shamrocks, leprechauns, gold coins, and rainbows are the perfect way to end winter. And this St. Patrick’s Day Number Match-Up activity is an exciting hands-on way to teach math concepts using some spring holiday cheer.

With the St. Patrick’s Day theme in mind, we fill our literacy centers with activities like these cvc puzzles and blends match-up. We practice spelling names with this name building activity. Then, when the 17th comes along (or whatever day we celebrate in the classroom), we break out the St. Patrick’s Day bingo. It is always a hit and is so easy to prep and play! Read about all things green with these books that are full of St. Patrick’s Day adventure.

This St. Patrick’s Day Match-Up is ideal for working on number recognition and counting. But are you looking for even more St. Patrick’s Day math activities? This first to 20 game is a great way to practice counting. And for our more advanced learners, this St. Patrick’s Day editable addition and subtraction activity is perfect for differentiating our centers.

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St. Patrick’s Day Number Match-Ups

This St. Patrick’s Day math center is a great way to get your students practicing their number sense. With 80 printable pages, your students will practice recognizing numbers 1-20 shown in different ways. Whether you’re looking for a whole-class activity or individual practice, this St. Patrick’s Day math activity is the perfect addition to your lesson plans. Our kids don’t even realize how much they are learning with themes like St. Patrick’s Day. It makes the activities more engaging and enjoyable for students, and it’s a great opportunity to introduce cultural celebrations and customs to the classroom.

Provided in both color and black & white, students can take the number pots of gold and find the corresponding number gold coins to match. Students can practice identifying the numbers in different forms including tally marks, dice, dominoes, ten frames, and word form.

Get your little ones excited about St. Patrick's Day with this fun Number Match-Up activity!

Inside You’ll Find:

This hands-on St. Patrick’s Day math game for kindergarten will become one of your favorite math centers! Inside you’ll find:

  • 40 Pot of Gold mats with one number on each, covering numbers 1-20, in both color and black & white. 
  • 40 sheets of gold coins with numbers 1-20 shown in different ways, in both color and black & white.
Engage your students in a St. Patrick's Day math adventure with our Number Match-Up activity!

Getting the St. Patrick’s Day Number Match-Up Ready

This printable St. Patrick’s Day math activity is perfect for your youngest learners who are working on foundational math skills. The math match-up is easy to prep and use with your students. With this number match-up game for St. Patrick’s Day, students can work on number sense and counting while celebrating the holiday.

Get your kids counting and matching with this entertaining St. Patrick's Day math activity: Number Match-Up! Prepping and cutting numbers 17, 18, 19

What you’ll need to prep this Math Match-Up

After purchasing your St. Patrick’s Day number match-up game, you can start printing and prepping! You have a few options when it comes to printing this hands-on math game. You can choose to print the color version on paper or cardstock or you can choose to print the black & white version on colored copy paper or white copy paper. 

Whatever you print on, we highly suggest laminating all of the pieces before giving them to your students to use. After laminating, I like to cut the gold coins and keep them in a separate baggie from the pot of gold mats, so that I am ready to pull them out at any time. You can choose whether to cut out the pots of gold or to leave them as a whole page. 

Looking for a hands-on way to teach math concepts this St. Patrick's Day? Try our Number Match-Up activity! Counting three

Using the St. Patrick’s Day Number Match-Up

Once the match-ups are printed and prepped, it’s time to decide how to use them. I like to give them to my students in small batches, maybe only numbers 1-5, 5-10, etc. Or even a mix of numbers, but only a few numbers at a time. Then, when the students are in that center, they can choose a pot of gold mat and search for the gold coins that match the number.

This counting and matching game for St. Patrick’s Day is great for differentiating. You can pick the numbers you want your students to work on and how many, plus, there are always new and engaging ways to challenge your students who need a little bit more!

Your students will love practicing math skills with our St. Patrick's Day Number Match-Up activity. Counting to 5

One of my favorite ways to help my students who need a challenge is to give them a timer and have them try to find all of the gold coins for each number in a certain time. This helps them improve their subitizing skills which carries over to so many other math skills that they’ll be working on in the future. 

A fun and festive way to have your students play this St. Patrick’s Day number recognition game is to have an actual “pot of gold” (AKA, an empty pot or toy cauldron) that you can put the gold coin number cards in. This way, they have to search through the pot of gold, not just a stack of paper, to find the right numbers. I guarantee your students will be begging to return to the math center the next day! 

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Animal Alphabet Letter Crafts & Puzzles

Teaching my young students the letters of the alphabet is one of my favorite things to do. It’s always an exciting time when I introduce animal alphabet letter crafts and puzzles to my youngest learners. As early childhood educators, we know that letters and sounds are the cornerstone of our student’s literacy skills. We know that when we build a strong foundation of letter and sound recognition and knowledge, we set our students up for literacy and reading success down the line. 

But what can we do to ensure we’re giving our students and children that strong foundation? Well, it all starts before they even get to us in the classroom. Hopefully, they’ve sung the ABCs and seen the letters of the alphabet not only in books but all around them in their daily environment. Once they get to our classroom, we start introducing letters and sounds more formally. 

We might use any of these alphabet flip books to expose them to the entire alphabet in fun and silly ways. We use alphabet letter activities like these alphabet clip cards and these apple alphabet puzzles to give our students a chance to practice recognizing letters and identifying beginning sounds. I keep stacks of alphabet books in our reading center and we decorate our classroom with these alphabet posters so our ABC learning will be reinforced throughout the day.

I especially love to use these alphabet emergent readers in my small groups, or even as a whole group activity. I use the readers during my letter-of-the-week activities. After I introduce each letter, I always incorporate a letter craft, which is why I love these Animal Alphabet Letter Crafts & Puzzles. They fit into my letter instruction seamlessly, and I know they’d fit into yours too!

Bring letters to life with our Animal Alphabet Letter Crafts and Puzzles! Ideal fun and learning for our youngest learners.

Animal Alphabet Letter Crafts and Puzzles

These alphabet letter activities are some of our most popular products and for good reason. Your students will love the familiar procedure of the craft and puzzles and you’ll love that these alphabet printables for kids are so easy to prep and use in the classroom (or even at home!).

Teachers love to use these animal alphabet crafts and animal alphabet letter puzzles with their students. If you are someone who introduces a new letter every week, these animal-themed crafts and activities will make the perfect addition to your lesson plans! 

Letter A worksheet and puzzles. Bring letters to life with our Animal Alphabet Letter Crafts and Puzzles! Ideal for little learners.

Inside You’ll Find: 

  • 26 Animal letter crafts, in color and black & white
  • 26 Animal letter crafts with writing option
  • 26 Animal letter puzzles, in color and black & white
Get creative with animal alphabet letter crafts and puzzles! Explore fun and educational DIY projects for our youngest learners. Letter A Animal Craft

Animal Alphabet Crafts

Students will love turning every letter of the alphabet into an adorable animal. With two different versions, you can choose whether to give your students the letter template with or without the sentence tracing component. On the tracing option, the sentence reads “__ is for __.” For example, on the letter A animal alphabet craft with the sentence tracing option, it reads “A a is for alligator.” 

Each letter template comes in black & white for you to print on colored paper or to have your students color, and in color, if you’d prefer to cut down on a few steps. Each craft comes with the pieces needed to make the craft, as well as directions. 

These letter-of-the-week animal crafts are great for one-off projects to send home with your students. You can also use them on bulletin boards, or have students glue each one in a notebook to make a collection of the entire alphabet. 

Turn ordinary letters into extraordinary masterpieces with alphabet letter crafts and puzzles. Fun Letter A Puzzles

Animal Alphabet Puzzles

When you purchase these animal alphabet activities, you’ll receive 26 animal puzzles, one for each letter of the alphabet. The ABC puzzles with animals come in both color and black & white, in case you want to save on ink! Each puzzle has three pieces: one with the uppercase letter, one with the lowercase letter, and one with the animal that begins with the letter sound.

These puzzles work best when they are laminated ahead of time so that they can be used over and over again. I suggest laminating them after printing, and then cutting them into pieces after that. You can also make these puzzles self-checking by putting the correct letters, matching colored dots, or numbers on the back of the pieces. I like to keep these alphabet puzzles in a baggie in my reading center. I often send my early finishers to go practice with them! Here’s how I like to keep my language arts materials organized.

What you’ll need to prep the animal alphabet crafts and puzzles:

A is for Alligator puzzles Get ready to roar with our animal alphabet letter crafts and puzzles! Your students will love creating adorable animals out of letters.

Using the Alphabet Letter Crafts

The best part of the animal alphabet crafts is that your students really only need the craft template and pieces, scissors, and glue! I love that they don’t take a lot of time to set up or prep. I always model doing the craft before giving my students any materials. Depending on the ability level of the kids I’m working with, sometimes I’ll show them how to do it and send them on their way. Other times I will show them and then continue to follow step-by-step with them until their alphabet crafts are complete. Either way, you’ll end up with adorable animal alphabet letters afterward!

With the Animal Alphabet Letter Crafts and Puzzles, learning the ABCs can be interactive, fun, and educational. Help your students learn their letters in an enjoyable way by creating art pieces with our letter crafts sets. The puzzles bring an easy problem-solving challenge while allowing children to explore the different animals’ initial letter sounds for each letter of the alphabet. Our youngest learners will benefit from mastering letters as you start them off on their journey towards becoming more adept readers and writers as they master these foundational skills.

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Classroom Brain Breaks for Winter

Winter can be beautiful. Trees covered in snow. Cozy days spent inside under a blanket on the couch. Or maybe you love to hit the slopes and trails for your favorite winter sport. And while winter can be a wonderful time, it can also be a painfully long, dreary season. Especially when you’re stuck inside the classroom! That’s why our brain breaks for winter months are here to save your sanity.

During this time of year it’s dark when you leave for school and dark when you head back home. Depending on where you live, you might have to dress in 7+ layers just to keep yourself warm on the drive to school. Your students come in with their coats, snow pants, and boots and everything is wet, muddy, and messy. And worst of all… So. Much. Indoor. Recess. 

Maybe it’s too cold, too icy, too wet… whatever the reason, there seems to be an uptick in indoor recess time during the winter months. And that can cause you to lose your mind and your students to go stir crazy. Our kids thrive off that chance to breathe in the fresh air during outdoor recess and run off some of their pent up energy. 

Now I don’t have any magical solutions for getting your students fresh air during indoor recess besides opening the windows, but I do have some fantastically fun indoor winter brain breaks for the classroom when everyone needs a break from learning! 

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Brain Breaks for Winter

Winter brain breaks are an excellent way to maintain on-task behavior in your classroom throughout the colder season. Not only do they help increase learning and engagement in students, but they can also encourage creativity and teamwork amongst your class. We’ve collected a range of activities to bring movement into the classroom during the winter – all while having a blast.

Snowball Fight Learning is a fun, hands-on activity for students to review whatever they are learning in the classroom. This free printable and activity is perfect for preschool, kindergarten, and first grade students. 

Indoor “Snowball” Fight

I love to use this Editable Snowball Fight printable throughout the winter months. You can put letters, numbers, sight words, equations, or any other skill that you’re wanting your students to review on the snowballs. Your students will have a blast throwing and picking up the “snowballs” and you’ll love that no one is getting hurt or wet while playing! This game is always a hit so be prepared for the kids to request it over and over again.

The cold winter months are perfect for teaching little learners about snow, Arctic animals, snowmen! If you need fun ideas for your busy winter classroom, check out this list of STEM winter activities! We have collected the very best activities for your kindergarteners.

Winter STEM Activities

Some of my other favorite brain breaks to do with kids during the winter are these Winter STEM Activities. I always like to have one prepped in a center or in bins so that when everyone is needing a break from their learning, we can get up and complete a STEM challenge as a class or in small groups. Your students will still be learning through exploration, but they’ll get a much-needed break from their seats and their written work! This Avalanche Experiment is an easy prep STEM activity our kids find absolutely fascinating.

write the room winter activities scarf, hot cocoa, snowman, boots, snow, jacket

Write the Room Activities

Everyone loves a good task, right? Our students (and even us) typically thrive when given just the right amount of structure and direction. Sometimes you can just say “everyone get up and move around for a few minutes” and it will go really well. The kids will stretch and return to their seats when asked. But other times, if I tell them they can get up and move around for a few minutes, we’ll end up with a game of tag, outdoor voices, and usually some tears from people crashing into each other or tripping. 

This is why I love using write the room activities as indoor brain breaks. Your students can still move around the room relatively freely, but they are tasked with an activity to keep them focused. While this isn’t a complete “brain break” since they’re still thinking and learning, it definitely counts as a movement break and anything helps during the winter!

Our Write the Room bundle has more than 200 Write the Room activities that will keep you and your students busy all school year long. My favorites to use as cold weather brain breaks include the seasonal winter words, the subtraction for winter, and the addition for winter write the room activities. There are also sight words, uppercase letters, lowercase letters, beginning sounds, and counting write the rooms for every month of the year, so the January and February ones will be perfect to use during the winter!

Play Bingo with your elementary age students for a fun winter themed game! Perfect for large groups in your classroom or small review groups. Add this to your winter lesson plans or winter class party with 30 unique winter Bingo boards! Teaching cards are also included in this fun game for young children! Black and white options available to save your color ink.

Indoor Fun with BINGO Games

During the winter, I am always looking for fun, creative indoor brain breaks for kids, and I love to use easy activities that I can store away and use year after year. That’s why I always have a game of bingo prepped for every season and holiday. This Winter Bingo game is one of my favorites on my list of cold-weather indoor recess ideas! I always suggest grabbing both the Seasons Bingo and Holiday Bingo bundles because you’ll never be without an easy brain break for your students!

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Video Brain Breaks for Winter

Sometimes we want to run an activity or structured brain break, and sometimes we just want our students to get out of their seats for a few minutes! These videos make for the perfect winter brain breaks to get moving and burn energy. 

Your students will be laughing and dancing along with the Koo Koo Kangaroo clan with this fun “Brr” song and dance. 

We can always count on The Learning Station for simple-to-follow, age-appropriate movement breaks, and this Snowman freeze song is no different!

I love Jack Hartmann videos for my kindergarteners, don’t you? He has a video for everything! Play this Make any Shape and Freeze! game this winter when you need to get your students out of their seats.

Lastly, one of my students’ FAVORITE things to do in the classroom is yoga. I find that the Cosmic Kids Yoga channel on YouTube has the best and highest quality yoga videos for our students. Some exciting winter brain break options include JoyBob the Polar Bear Yoga and Pedro the Penguin Yoga. 

Whether you live in a place where you’re snowed in with indoor recess all winter long, or maybe you’re just looking to break up your day in the classroom with some brain breaks, I hope this collection of fun indoor classroom brain breaks for winter helps make these cold months fly by.

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28 CVC Emergent Readers and Activities Bundle

Literacy instruction is one of the most crucial components of teaching our youngest learners. We begin with letters and sounds, and once our students grasp those, we start blending and decoding words. We’ve created this CVC Emergent Readers and Activities Bundle so students can build their confidence and develop a love for reading. These simple, three-letter words provide a foundation for more complex reading and writing.

We spend months teaching and working with CVC, or consonant-vowel-consonant, words. We might teach our students about CVC words & word families at the same time, as that can help students recognize familiar sound patterns. 

We sprinkle in fun CVC word-building activities like this farm CVC activity and these spring CVC puzzles. Plus, we can practice working with CVC words during every season using turkeys, gold coins, hearts, pumpkins, and snowmen. 

Why do I love CVC and sight words emergent readers? They are an exciting way to get our early readers engaged and motivated. Beginning readers provide a sense of accomplishment for students as they decode words and understand the story.

My favorite resource to use throughout the year when teaching CVC and sight words is this CVC Emergent Readers and Activities Bundle. Not only does this bundle come with 28 short vowel emergent readers, but every reader comes with activities and teacher materials to make teaching a breeze. 

This CVC emergent readers and activities bundle is perfect for teaching phonemic awareness, phonics, and word decoding skills.

CVC Emergent Readers and Activities Bundle

This CVC word family emergent readers bundle is the perfect addition to your literacy instruction. These readers and activities can be used as small group work or in your reading groups. They could also be used during whole-group instruction or as a literacy center. 

Each reader highlights a different short vowel CVC word family, along with several sight words. Each emergent reader comes in color and black & white and also includes a “big book” teacher copy to use in your groups or on the board. 

In addition, this CVC reading bundle comes with several hands-on student activities that go along with the text. With pocket chart activities and different worksheet options, your students will be working with the CVC words & word families in multiple different formats. 

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Inside You’ll Find 

This CVC Emergent Reader plus Activities Bundle for beginning readers will quickly become an asset to your literacy instruction. Inside the bundle you’ll find:

  • 28 CVC word family emergent readers, each focusing on a different short vowel and 3-7 different sight words
  • 28 larger print teacher books
  • 2 pocket chart activities for each emergent reader
  • 3 differentiated short vowel worksheets for each emergent reader
using the et book CVC emergent readers and activities bundle

Teacher “Big Book” Copy of the Emergent Readers

With colorful and adorable clipart, this teacher copy book can be saved and used every time you utilize the reader for instruction, or even stored in your classroom library for future reading.  Each word family has its own unique emergent reader with sight words and decodable word family words.

The et book sight words what is a

Student Copy of the Emergent Readers

A matching copy of the teacher version in a two-per-page format,  the student emergent reader is what will be printed and used with your students. This smaller reader is perfect for little hands to hold and read through. All you have to do is print, cut, and staple (Hint: a paper cutter is a huge time saver here!).

Pocket Chart Activities

Each of the CVC emergent readers also comes with pocket chart activities. With the best CVC word activities for kindergarten, students can practice building and reading the sentences from the specific word family reader. We suggest printing either the color or black and white version onto cardstock and laminating. 

The Et book worksheets with 3 different activities

Differentiated Worksheets

Students can practice reading and writing the sentences from the CVC emergent readers with these differentiated worksheets. With three different options, you can choose whether you want your students just to read the sentences, or write the sight words and/or short vowel CVC words as well.

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Getting the CVC Emergent Readers and Activities Ready

These CVC word decodable reader books for kindergarten are packed full of engaging material.  We’ve made it super easy and simple to prep these activities. I like to organize and store my language arts materials this way for ease and future use.

What is a vet? CVC emergent reader and activities bundle

What you’ll need to prep the readers and activities:

After purchasing your emergent readers pack, you can start printing and prepping. We suggest printing the teacher copy on cardstock and laminating so that it lasts you for years of small groups! 

Depending on how you are using the student readers, you can print the color or black & white options, or both! The black & white options are always great to send home with your students. 

When prepping the pocket chart materials, we recommend laminating the pieces to make them durable for lots of tiny hands! This way you can use them year after year.

The worksheets can be printed for your whole class or for each small group. I like to store a class set of each worksheet with each reader so that I have them ready to pull out and use at anytime. 

This bundle includes 28 CVC emergent readers and fun activities to help your students learn to read!

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1st Grade Math and Literacy Centers for January

What is January like where you live? Is it freezing cold and snowy? Rainy and warm? Hot and dry? No matter what the weather is like in January, you probably make the inside of your classroom a winter wonderland, or at least I do! And to kick off the new year right, we have the best centers and activities for January to help your students practice key 1st grade skills with a winter theme.

After discussing so many holidays during the months of November and December, I use January as a month to focus on snow and everything that has to do with winter! And you can’t think about January without exploring all about Penguins. We bring crafting and language arts together with this Penguin Puffy Paint Craft and Writing Prompt.

You can find my classroom covered in snowmen, snowballs, polar bears, penguins, icicles, hot cocoa, and lots of other wintery decor. I love teaching my students the science behind snow with this science unit and making sure our classroom is decorated with these plastic icicles. And to keep the fun and games going we play winter bingo and discuss all the things we enjoy about these colder months.

And since January in the classroom happens to come after a long holiday break, I always spend time reteaching skills, giving the kids a lot of practice and review. These first grade math and literacy centers with a January theme are perfect for that!

Here are some fun, hands-on 1st grade math and literacy centers to help your students practice key skills throughout the month of January.

January Math and Literacy Centers for First Grade

These January winter activities for elementary are covered in adorable winter clipart and will transform your classroom into a winter wonderland in no time. With 20 first grade literacy centers for January and 20 January math centers for first grade, you will be able to teach and review math and literacy skills with your first graders all month long. Use these 1st grade winter ideas in your centers, as whole group activities, small group review work, or even send them home for extra practice. 

And if you are looking to differentiate, you can check out our Kindergarten Math and Literacy Centers for January, or even our Pre-K Math and Literacy Centers for January, to receive similar centers that focus on different skills. 

Looking for some fun and engaging 1st grade math and literacy centers to help keep your students learning during the month of January? Look no further! These centers are perfect for your first graders.

Included in the First Grade Math and Literacy Centers for January:

In LITERACY you will get 4 weeks of:

  • Match-Up and Pocket Chart Activities
  • Writing Center Cards and Materials
  • Write & Wipe Activities and Puzzles
  • Poems and Poetry Activities
  • Write the Room Activities

Giving you 20 January literacy activities!

In MATH you will get 4 weeks of:

  • Partner Games
  • Write & Wipe Activities
  • Write the Room Activities
  • Dice Game Activities
  • Match-Up Activities and Puzzles

Adding up to 20 January math centers!

All in all, after purchasing this resource, you’ll have 40 exciting first grade winter hands-on activities for your classroom!

Math Skills covered:

  • 3D Shapes, Place Value, Graphing, Fractions, Subtraction, Money, Telling Time, Addition, Subtraction…and more!

Literacy Skills covered: 

  • Poetry, Writing, Adjectives, Sequencing, Nouns, Verbs, Trigraphs, Vowel Teams, Digraphs, Blends, Contractions, Prepositions…and more!
Enhance your first grade students' math and literacy skills with these engaging and educational January centers.

Using these First Grade Winter Activities

With 40 of the best winter math and literacy centers kids will love, it is easy to get overwhelmed. But let me give you some suggestions to make using these first grade teaching resources easier for you:

  • Stay ahead! Prep these centers ahead of January and plan out what you are going to use so that you can laminate, copy, and cut everything that needs to be done. Remember, the first time you do this will be a lot, but if you prep well, you can save most of these materials for many Januarys to come. 
  • Decide if you’re giving your students all of the centers at the start of the month, or one of each type a week. Or maybe you’ll use some for whole group and small group instruction too. Figure out what works for you! 
  • Whatever you do, make sure to model the centers explicitly and set clear intentions for your students, especially when using the write the room literacy and math first grade centers. Moving around the room can be chaotic if the expectations aren’t laid out and practiced!

Materials suggested for these First Grade Math and Literacy Centers: 

January Literacy Centers for First Grade

Pocket Chart and Match-Ups

Your first grade students can work on adjectives, contractions, prepositions, sentences, and sequencing with these pocket chart and match-up activities. The activities are meant to be used in a pocket chart or wherever they can be spread out, so a table or the floor work just fine too. 

1st grade winter poetry Highlight each noun

Poetry

With two nursery rhymes and two winter poems, your students can fall in love with poetry this January. The poetry journals and notebooks come with different activities that can be used as a whole group activity or in small groups during centers. They also make great sub activities because everything you need is there!

Winter literacy puzzles for 1st grade

Write & Wipe and Puzzles 

Your first grade students can practice blends, digraphs, vowel teams, and trigraphs with these two write & wipe activities and two puzzles. I like to laminate the write & wipe centers and give the kids a dry erase marker, and they’re off to work! The puzzles are great early finisher work or morning work as well. 

January write the room parts of speech worksheet for 1st grade

Write the Room

I know I’m always looking for a reason to get my kids up and moving this winter, which is why we enjoy doing these write the room activities. The four write the room literacy activities for January cover skills such as digraphs, parts of speech, trigraphs, and vowel teams. 

Winter literacy writing activities worksheet

Writing Center

See what fabulous winter stories your students come up with this month when you give them Winter, Arctic Animals, Chinese New Year, and Winter Clothes writing cards. With different writing materials provided, you can meet the needs of all your learners with these first grade writing centers. 

January roll & cover dice games

January First Grade Math Centers 

Dice Game Activities

Dice games are so easy and fun! They take practically zero work to set up. Your students can practice subtracting from 10, graphing, 3D shapes, and fractions with these simple dice games. 

Winter match up activities for 1st grade

Match-Up Activities and Puzzles

Covering skills such as fractions, money, place value, and telling time, your first graders will be so busy with these match-up activities and puzzles that they won’t even realize they’re learning! 

winter math partner games for 1st grade

Partner Games

It is always fun to give the kids a chance to play learning games together! With these partner games, your students can work on math skills like place value, money, adding, subtracting, and 3D shapes, all while having a blast with their friends. 

1st grade winter write and wipe math activities

Write & Wipe Activities

Get the laminators or the page protectors ready! With just a dry erase marker, your students can practice comparing numbers, number sense, place value, and addition while doing these write and wipe activities. 

Write the Room Centers

Again, I’m always looking for any excuse to get our kids out of their seats and moving around this winter. These four winter math activities will have your first graders practicing fractions, money, subtraction, addition, and telling time. 

Enhance your first grade students' math and literacy skills with these engaging and educational January centers.

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January Math and Literacy Centers for Pre-K

How do you feel about January? Do you ride into the month on a high after the holidays, excited for a new year? Or are you bundled up in a hundred layers trying to stay warm and hoping the month ends soon to get you one step closer to spring? I’m somewhere in between loving winter and longing for warmer days. My favorite thing about the new year is introducing new activities to our students like these January Math and Literacy Centers for Pre-K.

I love to make the month more fun with easy January pre-k activities like this Snowman Name Building Match-Up. It can be super interesting to learn about wintery animals during science with this Penguin Craft Activity or this Polar Bear Animal Study. We bring on the games with our Winter Bingo and enjoy reading our favorite books for winter. Nothing says January like our Avalanche Science Experiment! Our kids are amazed as we bring the “snow” experience right into the classroom.

And of course, I make every day engaging and exciting with our January math and literacy centers. These centers are the best winter pre-k activities for math and literacy. Plus, most of them I have prepped ahead of time from last year so all I have to do is pull them out; it doesn’t get easier than that! 

These January math and literacy centers will help your pre-k students stay on track while enjoying some fun winter themed activities.

January Math and Literacy Activities for Pre-K

These winter math and literacy centers come with 20 literacy and 20 math centers for pre-k. The activities are most often used as centers but can also be great for whole-group instruction, small-group intervention or review, or even as a send-home activity. 

Covered with adorable winter-themed clipart, these centers are the perfect winter math and literacy teaching resources for pre-k. They will certainly help January run smoothly! The January Math and Literacy Centers are made for pre-k, but we also have January centers for kindergarten and first-grade classrooms as well. If interested, check out the kindergarten January centers in action here. Having multiple grade levels of these centers can help you differentiate to meet the needs of your students. 

Our monthly centers have familiar types and categories each month, but the skill of the center and the monthly theme change. So if you have other months of our centers, or own the year-long bundle, you’ll see the same types of centers each month, but the themes and the skills the students are working on are different. 

Included in the Pre-K Math and Literacy Centers for January:

In LITERACY you will get 4 weeks of:

  • Pocket Chart and Match-up Centers
  • Writing Center Activities
  • Puzzle and Write & Wipe Centers
  • Poetry Centers
  • Write the Room Centers

Giving you 20 total January literacy centers for pre-k!

In MATH you will get 4 weeks of:

  • Partner Games
  • Write & Wipe  Centers
  • Write the Room Centers
  • Dice Centers
  • Puzzle and Match-up Centers

Adding up to 20 total January pre-k winter math activities.

In total, when you purchase these winter math and literacy activities for pre-k, you’ll immediately have 40 January centers!

Math Skills covered in the Pre-K January Math Centers:

  • Number Sense/ID, Equal Groups, Graphing, Counting On, 2D Shapes, Measuring, Counting, Counting On, Number Order…and more!

Literacy Skills covered in the Pre-K January Literacy Centers: 

  • Poetry, Writing, Sequencing, Beginning Sounds, Uppercase and Lowercase Letter ID, Letters and Words, Rhyming…and more!
These January math and literacy centers will help your pre-kindergarten students continue to grow and learn in the new year.

Using the January Math and Literacy Centers 

These January winter-themed activities and centers for pre-k is a large product. Once purchased, you’ll receive 40 pre-k winter centers; it’s a lot! So we have collected some suggestions and ideas to help make things easier for you. 

  • My favorite thing to do with these centers is to prep and plan out which ones I am going to use the month before. Especially if you have our year-long bundle of pre-k centers, it is much easier to look at one month at a time and stay ahead of the game. Each year you use them it gets easier and easier, since you’ll be able to reuse what you’ve already prepped. 
  • After looking through the month’s worth of centers, print the ones you want to use and decide what needs to be copied, laminated, cut, etc. and plan out when you’ll have time to do these tasks. 
  • These centers are designed to be used throughout the month, but you can decide if you want to give students one of each center for each week of the month, or if you want to introduce all of the centers at the beginning of the month and use them for the entirety of the month. It’s up to you, there is not one right way to use the centers! 
  • I like to introduce the new centers each week and model them for my students. I always try to set clear, simple expectations for each type of center. 

Materials suggested for the Pre-K Winter Centers: 

Pre-K Winter Literacy Centers

Pocket Chart and Match-Ups

Pocket charts and match-up activities can be used in a hanging pocket chart, or anywhere that students can spread out the parts and pieces, like on the floor or a table. With these January pre-k literacy centers, students can practice identifying letters vs. words, rhyming words, uppercase and lowercase letters, and beginning sound. 

Dad the rhyming word with these prek winter poems

Poetry

Do you struggle to find appropriate poems to use with your young learners? I sure do. That’s why I am obsessed with the 4 poems included each month with these centers. With two nursery rhymes and two winter poems, students can practice reading, retelling, and other language skills with these poetry centers.

D is for Dog Winter literacy centers for prek

Write & Wipe and Puzzles 

Write and wipe centers and puzzles are great activities to laminate and reuse year after year. With two pre-k winter literacy puzzles, students can practice beginning sounds and matching uppercase and lowercase letters. Write and wipe activities can be laminated or put into a page protector to be used with dry erase markers. Your pre-k students can practice rhyming words and letter sounds with the two January write and wipe centers.

Prek january centers Letter ID how many letters

Write the Room

Write the room activities can be used in many different ways. You can use them in the traditional sense, by taping or hanging them up around the room and having students walk around with the recording sheet. Or you can put the cards on a ring or in a basket in a center and have students choose one card at a time. The four January write the room activities cover the skills of beginning sound, rhyming words, letters in words, and letter ID.

January prek writing with winter topics

Writing

Turn your writing center into a winter wonderland with these four January winter topics! Students can draw and write about winter, arctic animals, Chinese New Year, and winter clothing this January in your writing center. Use the provided writing materials to differentiate for your students. The word cards can be used in a pocket chart, on a word wall, on a ring, or in a basket in your center. 

Roll a snowman dice games for prek January math centers

Math Centers for Pre-K 

Dice Games

Your students will love rolling and learning with these dice games! With a color by code, a roll and build, a roll and cover, and a roll and graph, your pre-k students will practice several foundational math skills. 

Prek winter counting puzzles

Match-Ups and Puzzles

Match-ups and puzzles are great for an easy math center. Place the match-ups in a pocket chart or just on a table or the floor. Students can practice number sense and number ID with the two January match-ups. The two January puzzles will help your students review counting on and subitizing. 

Partner Games

Playing games with partners is important for our young learners. They help them learn and practice the social norms and behaviors that are necessary for successfully playing a game with others. With a card game, a gameboard, a race to the top, and a spin and cover, your pre-k students can practice their math skills while playing with partners. 

prek January math centers write and wipe 2d shapes

Write and Wipe

Write and wipe activities can be laminated and used with a dry erase marker. They can also be placed into a page protector if you can’t laminate them. These math centers for pre-k students will help them practice counting, measurement, number sense, and 2D shapes.

January math centers for prek write the room number ID activity

Write the Room

Just like the literacy write the room activities, you can choose how you want your students to use these materials. The four January math write the room activities cover the skills of counting, measurement, number sense, and number ID. 

These January math and literacy centers will help your pre-k students stay on track while enjoying some fun winter themed activities.

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17 January Classroom Activities and Ideas

Winter is here and the warm, sunny days of spring are still a way off. January can be an incredibly long month, both in and out of the classroom. Cold weather equals less outside time, which means more indoor recess and more pent-up energy during the school day. Start your year the right way with these January Classroom Activities!

Throughout December we stayed busy with this festive gingerbread rhyming activity and these Christmas number mats. We incorporated Christmas STEM ideas all month long to keep everyone’s excitement focused on learning. We even made reindeer bags to take everything home over our long holiday break. 

But now that the holiday season has passed, and with no long breaks or vacations on the horizon, January can feel daunting for both teachers and students. So let’s start planning January activities and games for the classroom to keep our students engaged and interested in their learning! 

From fun games to math and literacy to engaging science activities these January classroom activities will get the year started off in the right way.

January Classroom Activities and Ideas

If the long month and an empty planbook have you feeling overwhelmed, check out this compiled list of exciting winter activities for the K-2 classroom this January. 

These fun and engaging math and literacy centers are perfect for kindergarten students in January!

January-Themed Centers

Of course my number one must-have to make planning easier is our January Math and Literacy Centers. Available for pre-k, kindergarten, and first grade, these centers come with 20 math and 20 literacy centers that are themed for January. That’s 40 January classroom activities and games to use with your students for the month. You can pretty much guarantee that no one will be bored with your students rotating through these centers all month. You can check out our January kindergarten centers in action here. 

Play Bingo with your elementary age students for a fun winter themed game! Perfect for large groups in your classroom or small review groups. Add this to your winter lesson plans or winter class party with 30 unique winter Bingo boards! Teaching cards are also included in this fun game for young children! Black and white options available to save your color ink.

Fun Winter Games

If you’re looking for more winter classroom activities that are easy to prep and fun to play, check out our Winter Bingo game. I love how predictable and easy bingo is for the kids to learn and play, and it always makes for a fun Friday or winter party activity. 

Another game to play that involves a bit more learning is our Winter First to 20 game. This game is a great way for your students to have fun while practicing their numbers and counting this winter! This game can easily be added to your math or game center and can be used with cute mini erasers or other fun manipulatives. 

Winter First to 20 Activity helps little learners learn and review their number sense to build a strong foundation for more complex math skills.

Math and Literacy Journals for January

Need easy morning work or exit tickets for January? Or maybe just some extra review or practice? Our Daily Review Journals can be used in so many different ways. Our January Math Journal for First Grade is a great way for your students to fine-tune their math skills. Need literacy practice instead? The January Literacy Journal for First Grade practices and reviews skills like long vowel teams, blends, digraphs, and so much more. Do you work with kindergarten students? Our January Math Journal and January Literacy Journal are made to be kindergarten winter activities as well. 

Snowman thumbprint craft for January classroom activities

January Classroom Crafts

One thing that I love to do each week is a fun winter classroom craft to either hang on a bulletin board or send home with the kiddos. This Snowman Thumbprint Craft is such an easy one that will turn your classroom into a winter wonderland!

This Penguin Puffy Paint Craft and Writing Prompt is a great way to bring crafts and literacy together. 

Check out this Penguin Puffy Paint craft and writing activity. It is seriously the cutest! Or add this Polar Bear craft to your studies to make an adorable winter bulletin board. Made from paper plates, this is one of my favorite winter classroom crafts! 

These four January Science Experiments are an exciting way to get kids asking questions, creating hypothoses, and making observations.

January Science Activities

Winter is a wonderful time for science! I love doing science units and experiments that get my kids excited about their learning. These four January Science Experiments will have your students exploring and experimenting all month long. I mean, how fun does “Polar Bear Blubber,” “Blizzard in a Jar,” “Hot Cocoa Science,” and “Melting Snowman” sound? These experiments are also perfect for doing at home with your own kids. Most of the supplies needed are things you probably already have at home!

While you’re filling the classroom up with (fake) snowmen and snowballs, make sure to teach your students the science behind snow with this Snow Science Unit. If you have snow in your area, this unit is excellent for discussing the dangers of snow and how to stay safe in the snow. And if you don’t have snow in your area, students will still love learning about the life cycle of snow and can look forward to seeing it for themselves some day! 

Engage your class in an exciting hands-on experience learning all about penguins! This Penguin Animal Study is perfect for science in Preschool, Pre-K, Kindergarten, First Grade, and Second Grade classrooms and packed full of inviting science activities. Students will learn about the difference between penguins and puffins, animals with and without webbed feet, parts of a penguin, and a penguin's life cycle. When students are done they can complete a penguin research project. This pack is great for homeschoolers, kids craft activities, and to add to your unit studies!

With January being so long, you might get tired of talking about snow, snowmen, and snowballs. Switch it up with some winter animal studies! Our Penguin Animal Study is a great addition to your January science plans. 

Another fun animal to study this winter is the polar bear. Our Polar Bear Animal Study will give you a week’s worth of lesson plans and activities to teach your littlest learners all about these big, furry bears! 

These Snowman Rhyming Puzzles help our preschool and kindergarten students build their phonological awareness in a hands-on way.

Literacy Classroom Activities for Winter

And with January comes snow! Well…for some of us. For those of us down south, we prepare fun snow classroom activities to make up for the lack of snow outside. These snowman rhyming puzzles are a great addition to your literacy centers this winter. 

This Snowman Number Match-Up helps students to develop a strong number sense and confidence in numbers as they build a strong foundation in math skills.

Our Snowman Match-Ups are such a fun way to practice sounds, blends, digraphs, numbers, and more, all while building adorable snowmen.

This Penguin Emergent Reader will help your students to build their print and phonological awareness in an enjoyable way.

This Penguin Emergent Reader can be added to your reading center or used in small groups. Your students will love learning about these waddling creatures. 

Penguin Syllable Sort is the perfect addition to your literacy centers to have your students reviewing syllables. This freebie is great for kindergarten and first grade students. 

After reading about penguins, include this Penguin Syllable Sort activity to your literacy or rug center to help your students practice identifying and counting syllables with some cute penguin friends!

When you’re done learning snowy science and making pretend snowmen, take a load off on the carpet and enjoy reading some of our 12 favorite winter books. Find these books in your library, a video of the read-aloud online, or add them to your classroom wishlist to have for many winters to come. 

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From fun games to math and literacy centers to engaging science activities these exciting winter classroom activities will start the year off with a bang!

Kindergarten Math and Literacy Centers for January

Each year when January rolls around, I am always shocked by how quickly the past year flew by. January can feel really long in the classroom. We come back from a nice break for the holidays but not long after, the weeks start to drag! Depending on where you live, it might be freezing outside causing the class to be stuck with indoor recess for weeks. The perfect way to tackle January is with these Kindergarten Math and Literacy Centers.

It’s important we keep our students engaged and excited during this tedious month. Using these January learning activities and winter centers, we can make this long month fun! 

I love to play with “snow” inside using all of our snowman match-up activities and to study the science behind snow with this science unit. We can practice CVC words with this free snowball activity and our rhyming words with these puzzles. 

I’ve found the best way to keep my students engaged and interested in their learning is through centers. And these Kindergarten math and literacy center activities for January help me do just that! Your students will be having ‘snow’ much fun, they won’t even realize they’re learning!

These fun kindergarten math and literacy centers will help keep your students engaged and learning throughout January!

January Math and Literacy Centers for Kindergarten

These January centers come with 20 kindergarten math activities and 20 kindergarten literacy centers. All of the centers are themed for January and winter. With adorable snowman, snowball, and winter clipart, these centers will make your classroom feel like a winter wonderland.  These winter centers for kindergarten can be used as centers, as whole group work, small group review, or even sent home for homework or extra practice.

These January centers are made for kindergarten, but are also available for Pre-K and First Grade classrooms as well. Some people like to utilize multiple grade levels of these centers in their classrooms to be able to successfully differentiate skills for their students.

One of the best parts of these themed kindergarten winter centers is that the category and style of the centers stay the same each month, but the theme and skill change to match the monthly themes and appropriate skills for that time of year. After using these centers a few times, your students will be familiar with the directions and routine and they won’t be asking, “What do we do again?”

Looking for non-themed centers? Check out our Zero Prep Kindergarten Math and Literacy Centers.

Inside you’ll find: 

In LITERACY you will get 4 weeks of:

  • Pocket Chart and Match-up Centers
  • Writing Center Activities
  • Puzzle and Write & Wipe centers
  • Poetry Centers
  • Write the Room Centers

Adding up to 20 total kindergarten literacy centers for January!

In MATH you will get 4 weeks of:

  • Partner Games
  • Write & Wipe  Centers
  • Write the Room Centers
  • Dice Centers
  • Puzzle and Match-up Centers

Giving you 20 total kindergarten math centers for January! 

That amounts to 40 kindergarten winter math and literacy activities for you to use this January with your students!

Math Skills covered:

  • Counting on, Addition, Number ID, 2D Shapes, 3D Shapes, Patterns, Comparing Numbers, Place Value, Decomposing Numbers, Subtraction, Number Order…and more!

Literacy Skills covered:

  • Blends, Lowercase and Uppercase Letter ID, Ending Sounds, Sight Words, CVC Words, Onset and Rime, Vowels, Word Families, Poetry, Writing…and more!
These fun and engaging math and literacy centers are perfect for kindergarten students in January!

Using the January Kindergarten Centers

These Kindergarten math and literacy center activities for winter can be intimidating at first glance. With 40 centers for the month, there is a lot to look at! Here are some suggestions that can help make things easier for you: 

  • After purchasing the centers, we suggest prepping and planning out the January centers for kindergarten the month before. If you own our year-long bundle of monthly math and literacy centers for kindergarten, you have hundreds (yes, 480!) of centers and it can feel overwhelming. But take it one month at a time and once you go through a full year of them, you’ll have so much saved, stored, and prepped for next year that your future self will thank you!
  • Look through the centers and make a list of which ones you want to use and what you need for each center. Print the centers and separate the materials into piles of what needs copying, laminating, cutting, etc. Get that done as you can, whenever you have time.
  • When thinking about using the centers in class, you can give your students all of the options for the entire month, or you can break it down into one of each type of center per week. Maybe you’ll choose to set up a center for each activity, like one for dice games, one for partner games, etc. Or maybe you have math and literacy centers at the same time, so you can pick and choose which centers to use and where and when to use them, and then switch out when you see fit.
  • We suggest introducing the directions ahead of time and modeling using the centers for your students. It is important to set clear expectations for each type of center. I like to do one quick whole-group explanation and demonstration for each center. If I feel like there may be a lot of questions, I’ll have the class do the activity as a whole group so that I can observe and answer any questions.
  • There is no single “right way” to use these January center ideas for kindergarten! No matter what, these centers will keep your students learning and having fun throughout the long month of January.
Looking for some fun and educational kindergarten math and literacy centers to do in January? Look no further! These activities are perfect for winter.

Kindergarten Literacy Centers for January

Pocket Chart and Match-Ups

These pocket chart and match-up centers were designed to be used in a pocket chart center, where students can move around the pieces, or on the floor or a table – basically wherever students can spread out the different pieces. Your kindergarten students can practice sorting words that begin with “L” blends, sorting upper and lowercase letters, putting together sentences, onset and rime, and sight words this January with these centers.

I'm a little penguin Kindergarten literacy center for January poem of the week

Poetry

It can be difficult to find engaging, age-appropriate poems for our kindergarteners! These centers come with 4 different poems, 2 monthly themed poems and 2 nursery rhymes, that will have your students enjoying poetry this winter. These kindergarten winter poems are perfect for a poetry center but are also great for a whole group lesson this winter. Each poem comes with a poetry journal, notebook poems, and pocket chart poem activities for students to practice learning through poetry while working on other literacy skills.

Write and wipe puzzles for kindergarten students with a January theme

Puzzles and Write and Wipe Activities 

Write & wipe and puzzle centers are perfect for laminating and pulling out year after year. Write and wipe activities can be laminated or placed into page protectors to make reusable. With fun winter clipart, students will have a snowy good time using these activities to practice their literacy skills this winter.

Kindergarten write the room center for January

Kindergarten Write the Room for January

Write the room activities are so underrated! Students love being able to get up and move around the classroom independently, and I love that it’s an easy way to review skills. These January write-the-room centers will help your students practice blends, CVC words, sight words, and ending sounds.

Kindergarten Writing with a January theme

With four different January writing card topics and several different writing page options, your kindergarten students can have new words and topics to write about each week during the long month of January. Or introduce them all at the beginning of the month and see what they come up with! This month, your students will love writing with Winter words, Winter Clothes words, Arctic Animal words, and Chinese New Year words. I love to put the cards on rings so that they stay together, but a pocket chart or basket work great too.

Kindergarten Math Centers for January

Dice Games

Dice games are just the best. They take little-to-no prep, they’re easy to set up, and the students love rolling the dice! Some of the games, like the color by sum, come with paper die to build and use. Others can be used with just a regular ol’ die. Students can practice adding, graphing, 3D Shapes, and other math skills with these math dice games.

Winter Themed Match-Ups and Puzzles

Match-ups and puzzles are easy to prep and easy to use. Make our match-up activities work for you! Use them in a pocket chart, on a table, or on the floor. Laminate them to use repeatedly throughout the years. Your students will love practicing 2D shapes, number ID, subitizing, and subtraction with these math activities.

3D shapes skin and cover partner game for Kindergarten literacy centers

Partner Games

Do your students LOVE when they get to play or work in pairs? Mine sure do. Your students can work together to play a card game, a “Catch the Penguin” board game, a race to the top game, and a spin and cover game. Your students won’t even realize that they are practicing ten frames, adding and subtracting, counting to 20, and 3D shapes while playing these games.

Subtraction write the room January themed Kindergarten center

January Write and Wipe

Write and wipe games can be laminated or placed in a page protector to be used repeatedly each year. My students love getting to use the dry-erase markers and erasers. With these January math write-and-wipe centers, your kindergarten students can practice place value, shape attributes, counting on, and comparing numerals. 

Winter Themed Write the Room for Kindergarten

Your students can get out of their seats and move around with these math write the room centers! Put the write-the-room cards in a basket or on a ring and use them as task cards in a center instead, if you don’t want to hang the cards around the room. The recording sheets offer differentiation options and can be used whether your students are moving around or sitting at a table! Students can practice adding, subtracting, number ID, and filling in a hundred’s chart with these activities.

These fun and engaging math and literacy centers are perfect for kindergarten students in January!

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Pre-K Reindeer Science Unit: Animal Study

It’s December and the holiday season is upon us. When it becomes nearly impossible to keep anyone’s focus, I love to study these fun and festive animals: reindeer! This Pre-K Reindeer Science Unit is full of activities for a week’s worth of fun as your students embark on this study of a fascinating creature.

There are many adorable reindeer crafts to be made, like our Craft Stick Reindeer or our Reindeer Ornaments. I also love to make these Reindeer Bags for students to take home all of their December goodies and work in before the holiday break. 

And don’t forget, before your little ones head home for the holidays, make sure to send them with some Reindeer food to leave out for Santa’s helpers! 

And while we sing songs about reindeer and tell magical tales, the true magic is found in what else we can do in the classroom while discussing these furry creatures…SCIENCE!

There is nothing better than incorporating what your students are already excited about into the curriculum. Reindeer are truly a diamond in the rough, because not only are they fun, festive, and magical in stories, but the actual animal is REAL and there is so much to learn about them! 

Our Pre-K Reindeer Science Unit is the perfect addition to your studies this winter and will have your students excited and motivated to learn. So when your little ones start coming up to you this December asking, “Are reindeer a real animal?”, you’ll be able to wow them with so many fun reindeer facts, pictures, and information with this unit. 

Maybe you’ve already spent your fall learning about spiders, bats, and turkeys with our other Pre-K science activities. If so, you’ll be more than ready to follow the familiar plan of this unit. If you want more animal-themed science activities for prek, plus tons of additional science units, check out our Endless Science {Growing} MEGA Bundle for Pre-K! 

This pre-k reindeer science unit is packed full of animal study activities, including reindeer facts and pictures.

Pre-k Reindeer Science Unit

Use our week-long reindeer lesson plans to incorporate all the great things inside this science unit into your busy schedule. 

Our living things science units are full of everything you need to teach a successful unit to your littlest learners. This unit includes many pre-k science activities like reindeer facts and pictures, reindeer worksheets, teacher resources and so much more. You can read all about what is in this unit below.

Inside you’ll find: 

This Pre-k Reindeer science unit is packed with resources for teaching and learning all about reindeer. The unit includes:

  • Unit Overview covering all that is included in the unit
  • Lesson Plans for the week
  • At-Home Letter to send to families
  • Teacher Guide to give you all of the background knowledge you need
  • Science Center Ideas
  • Science Questions to help you lead discussions throughout the unit
  • Book, Video, and Song Lists 
  • Reindeer Facts Powerpoint and Posters
  • Reindeer Nonfiction Emergent Reader
  • Question of the Week to engage students and pique their interest at the start of the unit
  • Parts of a Reindeer Posters 
  • Parts of a Reindeer Worksheets
  • Reindeer Life Cycle Posters
  • Reindeer Life Cycle Worksheet/Hat
  • Reindeer Fingerplay
  • Reindeer Craft
  • Reindeer STEM Centers

Plus all of these bonus materials too!

  • Writing Center Cards and Papers
  • Reindeer Facts or Animal Research Craft
  • Definition Posters
  • Word Wall
  • I’m a Little Reindeer Emergent Reader
  • Reindeer Bingo Game
  • Reindeer Can, Have, Are Activity
  • Circle Maps

Materials needed:

None of us have enough time in the day to finish what needs to get done as it is, so we always try to base the activities in our pre-k units of study on what you might already have in the classroom or at home. We don’t want you using the very little free time you have to run to the store. You’ll find more materials listed within the unit depending on which crafts and projects you choose to complete.

Some of the materials you will need to prepare for the Pre-k Reindeer Science Unit:

This pre-k reindeer science unit has everything you need to teach your little ones all about these fun animals! Includes printables, activities, and more.

Using the Pre-K Reindeer Science Unit Animal Study

Once you have purchased and downloaded the Pre-K Reindeer Science Unit, we recommend printing the posters on cardstock and laminating them so you can use them year after year. There are multiple activities, crafts, and projects included in this science unit, meaning preparation will vary depending on what you choose to do with your students! First, check out some of the teacher resources that come in this unit.

Reindeer Unit Overview

Our unit overview shows you a small glimpse of all the good stuff that comes in your Pre-K Reindeer Science Unit, all with suggestions on when and how to use each resource.

Reindeer Science Unit Study Lesson Plans

These week-long reindeer science lesson plans provide you with an outline of when and how to use all of the reindeer information in this unit. The lesson plans are only a suggestion to help get you started. We know that everyone’s school day looks different. Choose what is best for you and your students using the lesson plans and the provided unit overview.

Pre-k Reindeer science unit animal research

Reindeer Science Unit Home Letter

Parents love knowing what their child is learning about at school and students love to share with their families! Send this provided letter home with your students to clue families into the latest happenings in science.

Teacher Guide for Pre-K Reindeer Science Unit

You might think you already know all that there is to know about reindeer, but I bet we can teach you a fun fact or two! Our Reindeer Teacher Guide is filled with facts and information to teach you all about reindeer before you start teaching the unit to your students. So you will be fully equipped with facts when little Johnny asks, “Do reindeer really fly?” Plus, it’s always good to have extra fun facts for those kids that want to know more! 

Science Center Ideas and Science Questions

It’s hard to keep your science center materials new and engaging for your students. Use our suggested ideas and questions to make an interactive center that goes along perfectly with the reindeer theme! Plus, we provide you with curated lists of questions to spark discussion, creativity, and critical thinking in your littlest learners. You can use questions from our Reindeer-specific questions list and/or our general “Science Talk” questions list.

Collections of Reindeer Songs, Videos, and Books

In your download, you’ll receive curated lists of songs, videos, and books that can be used with your students throughout the science unit. You can pull from these lists anytime you need to start a new lesson, fill some time, or transition to another activity! Best of all, the lists are clickable and take you right to the link to watch, listen, or purchase the book. Your students will love the non-fiction and fiction stories and all of the fun songs.

Reindeer facts and posters for pre-k

Reindeer Facts PowerPoint and Posters

Our Reindeer Facts PowerPoint can be displayed on your screen/board. Also included are the Reindeer Facts Posters that match the PowerPoint and can be printed, laminated, displayed, and saved for years to come. Students will love learning fun facts about real reindeer. And don’t forget, if you need some more background knowledge or have kids that want to know even more about reindeer, check out the teacher guide in the unit for more information!

Nonfiction Reindeer Emergent Reader

After introducing reindeer to your students with the Reindeer Facts PowerPoint and Posters, use this emergent reader to help students identify the most important facts about reindeer. Filled with real-life pictures, this emergent reader can be used in whole-group or small-group settings and is perfect to place in your reading center for students to explore on their own. Kids love taking their emergent readers home to read to their families too. 

Parts of a reindeer pictures and worksheets

Parts of a Reindeer Posters and Worksheets

Help students discover the different parts of a reindeer with these posters and worksheets. The posters include both real-life and clipart options and come with matching labeling worksheets, plus fun glyphs to have students review the parts of a reindeer while also practicing their listening skills!

Reindeer life cycle posters for pre-k students

Reindeer Life Cycle Posters

These posters are perfect for teaching your young students all about the life cycle of a reindeer, with both real-life and clipart options. After reviewing the posters that show the entire cycle, you can have students use the definition cards of the various stages to put the life cycle in order. Students will especially love getting to make a fun hat to show what they know after learning about the reindeer life cycle. Your students will have so much fun making this reindeer hat worksheet activity, they won’t even realize that they’re learning.

Fun reindeer life cycle hat craft for little learners

Reindeer Fingerplay 

Our littlest learners love songs and rhymes, and so do we! This reindeer fingerplay will have your students singing, dancing, and smiling each time you do it. I love to use fingerplays as transitions throughout the day after the kids get the hang of them. Plus, this fingerplay helps your students practice counting too! 

Question of the Week

With your Pre-K Reindeer Science Unit download, you’ll also receive a Question of the Week header. I love to start every unit off with a question that piques the interest and curiosity of my students. The kids also love to go home and ask the same question to their families and report back the next day. The question of the week is a great discussion starter and can also be a good way to tie in graphing! For the reindeer animal study, we have a Christmas-related option and a non-Christmas related option for you to choose from.

Pre-k Reindeer science unit craft using feet and hand prints

Reindeer Craft

With simple directions and materials, students will love making this reindeer craft to go along with these Christmas science activities! Tracing hands and feet makes for excellent fine-motor practice, and the finished product of these crafts is perfect for a bulletin board or to send home as a cute keepsake or decoration. 

Reindeer STEM Centers

After learning about reindeer all week, give students a chance to explore and create on their own with these reindeer STEM challenges. Students can try to camouflage their reindeer using materials you probably already have in the classroom or at home. 

Definition Posters

We want our students to gain an understanding of the different vocabulary words that they’ll be hearing throughout the unit when we introduce a new topic, which is why I love these definition posters! Use these definition posters to teach students the simplified definitions of words related to reindeer that you’ll be referring to during the week. With real-life photos, these posters are one of the first things added to my “print, laminate, and save” pile! 

Word Wall Cards

Display the words that you’ll be using while discussing reindeer in different places around the classroom. These word wall cards can be hung up on the board, put in a pocket chart, or put on a ring to allow students to review and familiarize themselves with them.

Reindeer facts: In this pre-k science unit, students will learn about reindeer through animal study activities.

Reindeer Facts or Animal Research Craft

This Reindeer Fact or Research Craft is perfect if you are looking for a project that has a little more work and depth to it. Use our provided template and directions to help students showcase all of the new reindeer information they’ve learned. If you have students that need even more of a challenge, you can use one of the reindeer facts or reindeer research options for students to add to their craft. Utilize the various options to fit the needs of your students.

I'm a little reindeer emergent reader for pre-k

I’m a Little Reindeer Emergent Reader

This fiction emergent reader is great to use as an “extra” activity. Your students will love coloring in the pictures and taking this reader home to read with their families. 

Pre-k Reindeer facts circle maps worksheet

Reindeer and Reindeer Facts Circle Maps

Doing some writing? Or maybe just some brainstorming? Circle maps are a type of graphic organizer and can be used with drawings or words. I love to make one as a whole group at the start of the unit and then again at the end to see how much the kids have learned. They are also great for your older students to use as a starting point when collecting facts and information about reindeer.

Reindeer Can, Have, Are Activity 

Students can complete this Reindeer Can, Have, Are activity by identifying what reindeer can do, what they have, and what they are. This can be done as a whole group activity, as individual work, or a mix of both. With my littlest learners, I like to do this activity whole-group on the board after we introduce the animal. 

Pre-k reindeer writing center cards and paper science unit

Writing Center Cards and Paper

After purchasing the unit, you’ll find writing materials to place in a center throughout the week-long unit or to even use as a whole group activity. You’ll receive horizontal and vertical papers with and without lines, plus writing cards in both lower and uppercase letters with pictures so that your young students can identify the words. This is a great way to spark creativity and practice vocabulary and I love to see the drawings and stories (verbal or written) that the students come up with! There are so many different ways to use and incorporate these writing materials into your classroom. With reindeer writing papers and writing cards, you’re sure to get endless magical and festive stories told by your young students.

Pre-k reindeer bingo activity

Reindeer Bingo Game

Want something fun to do leading up to the holiday break? This Reindeer Bingo game is perfect for that! The bingo boards and cards come in color and black & white. I love using bingo as a fun Friday activity, during my holiday parties, or just because! Bingo is also easy to have a parent volunteer come in and run. I love to use counters as the pieces to cover up the pictures on the bingo cards, but many people use paper or anything else they have on hand.

This pre-k reindeer science unit includes a variety of animal study activities that are perfect for the winter season!

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First Grade Math and Literacy Centers for November

There’s a lot to love about November! It always flies by quickly, especially in the classroom, because there is so much to do and celebrate! These first grade math and literacy centers are perfect for November. Your students will love the fun themes and engaging activities!

This time of year there are so many November themes for elementary classrooms to work with, like the season of fall, Election day, Veteran’s Day, and Thanksgiving.

We read books like this Veteran’s Day emergent reader to teach our students the significance of November 11th and not long after that, we dive right into our turkey books! I love to read all of the stories on this Thanksgiving book list – they are always a hit! If you are looking for more Thanksgiving resources for the classroom, check out our seasonal Thanksgiving activities.

Our November Math and Literacy Centers for First Grade are a great way to incorporate all of the fun November themes into first grade math and literacy lessons. With turkeys, leaves, and everything else in November, your students will love these fall activities for first grade.

It's November! Grab some apple cider and pumpkin pie, and get ready to have some fun with your first graders. We've done the work for you by rounding up a month full of math and literacy centers that will not only keep your students engaged but will get them excited about learning.

November Math and Literacy Centers for First Grade

These centers come with 20 first grade math activities and 20 first grade literacy centers, all fall and Thanksgiving-themed.  These activities can be used as centers, as whole group work, as small group review, or even sent home for extra practice.

Your first grade students will love practicing their math and literacy skills with these hands-on, engaging math and literacy centers that are full of themed clipart. Not only do we have these November math activities and no prep literacy centers for first grade that are made specifically to meet the first grade standards, but we also make them for pre-k and kindergarten classrooms as well! Some teachers purchase multiple grade levels of the centers to have lots of differentiation options for their students. 

One of the most important things to know about these centers is that each month, the category and style of the centers remain the same, but the theme and skill change. After a few weeks of using these centers, your students will be familiar with the directions and routine and you won’t be hearing the question, “what are we supposed to do again?”

Inside you’ll find:

In LITERACY you will receive 4 weeks of:

  • Pocket Chart and Match-up Centers
  • Writing Center Activities
  • Puzzle and Write & Wipe Centers
  • Poetry Centers
  • Write the Room Centers

Adding up to 20 total literacy centers for first grade! 

In MATH you will receive 4 weeks of:

  • Partner Games
  • Write & Wipe Centers
  • Write the Room Centers
  • Dice Centers
  • Puzzle and Match-up Centers

Giving you 20 total guided math centers for first grade!

That amounts to 40 first grade math and literacy centers for you to use this November with your students! 

Math Skills covered:

  • Graphing, Addition, Place Value, Subtraction, Telling Time, Fractions, Numbers 1-20, Tens and Ones, Coins, Doubles, 3D Shapes…and more!

Literacy Skills covered:

  • Writing, Poetry, Sequencing, Sight Words, Trigraphs, Adjectives, Digraphs, CVCe Words, Conventions, S Blends, Vowel Teams…and more!
These first-grade math and literacy centers are perfect for November. Your students will love the fun themes and engaging activities!

Using the First Grade Math and Literacy Centers for November

These Thanksgiving math and literacy centers for elementary can look like A LOT at first glance. I mean, you get 40 centers, and that is a TON! But here are some suggestions that can make things easier for you:

  • After purchasing this resource, prep and plan out the centers the month before. If you own our year-long bundle of monthly math and literacy centers for first grade, you’ll have SO many centers that you won’t know what to do with them all. Take it a month at a time! 
  • Look through the centers and print what you want to use. Separate into piles of what needs copying, laminating, cutting, etc. Tackle that as you can. 
  • Depending on how you run your centers, you might want to give your students all of the options for the entire month, or you might want to break it down into 4(ish) weeks. You could have one center for dice games, one for partner games, etc. Or if you do math and literacy centers at the same time, you can pick and choose which ones to use and where and when to use them, rotating as you see fit.
  • Introduce the directions ahead of time and model using the centers for your students. Set clear expectations for each type of center. 
  • Most importantly, enjoy this resource and know that there is no one “right way” to use them! No matter what, with these centers, your students will be learning, laughing, and staying engaged all throughout the month of November. 

Materials Needed:

These first-grade math and literacy centers are perfect for November! With a focus on guided math and reading, these activities will help your students learn and grow.

First Grade Literacy Centers for November

Pocket Chart and Match-Ups
These first grade centers were designed to be used in a pocket chart where students can move around the pieces, but they can also be done on the floor or a table. Students can practice sequencing the steps of cooking a turkey, putting together sentences, identifying trigraphs, and reading high-frequency words.

November themed literacy and math centers for first grade using poems.

Poetry
It can be tricky to find good, age-appropriate poetry to read with our young learners. These November poems for first grade come with 4 poems in total, 3 monthly poems and 1 nursery rhyme, that will help your students fall in love with the patterns and rhymes of poetry. These first grade fall poems are fun for a poetry center but are also perfect for a whole class lesson this November. Use the poetry journal, notebook poems, and pocket chart poem activities to teach each poem and practice other language skills like parts of speech and comprehension.

Literacy puzzles for first grade with a november theme

Write and Wipe and Puzzles 
With two write-and-wipe activities and two puzzles, these centers are perfect for pulling out year after year. Write and wipe activities can be laminated to make them reusable, or can be placed into a page protector. Using a dry-erase marker, your first grade students can practice adjectives and conventions. While building the puzzles, they can work on reviewing the digraph “ck” and CVCe words. 

november themed write the room mixed up sentences for 1st grade

Write the Room
Do you use Write the Room activities in your classroom? Students love to be able to get up and move around the classroom independently and I love that it’s an easy way to review skills. These November write-the-room centers cover skills like digraphs, unscrambling sentences, S blends, and vowel teams.

Write the room digraphs literacy for first grade

Writing
I love the writing center in my classroom! Seeing what my students come up with to write or draw about, I love being able to switch up the materials I provide them to use. With four different November writing card topics and many different writing page options, your first-grade students can have new words and topics to write about every week during November. Or introduce them all at the beginning of the month and see what they create! This month, your students will love writing about Thanksgiving Food words, Family and Friends words, Then and Now words, and Woodland Animal words. I put the cards on rings so that they stay together, but a pocket chart or basket work great too! 

first grade roll and cover dice game

First Grade Math Centers for November

Dice Games
These dice games make the easiest, little-to-no prep math center. The centers include a Color by Code activity, a Roll and Cover game, a Roll and Graph game, and a Build a Turkey activity. Some of the games like the roll and graph come with paper die to build and use. Others can be used with just a regular ol’ die! The roll and cover game can be printed and laminated to use over and over, or use the roll and “color” option instead for each child to complete! Students can practice graphing, addition to 12, and numbers to 10 using these first grade math games with dice.

math activity time puzzles for first grade with a november theme

Match-Ups and Puzzles
Make our match-up activities work for you! Use them in a pocket chart, on a table, or on the floor – whatever suits your needs. These match-ups and puzzles can be used again and again if you choose to laminate them. Your students will love practicing place value, subtraction, addition, and telling time to the half-hour with these November math activities.

spin, count, and cover partner game for first graders

Partner Games
These partner games are easy to set up and can be played in pairs. I don’t know about you, but my students LOVE when they get to play/work in pairs. Your students can work together to play a “Race to 10” game, a matching card game, a “Spin, Add, and Cover” game, or a “Turkey Spin and Race” board game. They will be having so much fun that they won’t even realize they are practicing several math skills like fractions, place value, tens and ones, addition, and subtraction.

Turkey addition write and wipe math center for first grade

Write and Wipe
Write and wipe games are meant to be laminated or placed in a page protector to be used year after year. My students always love using the dry-erase markers. With these November math write-and-wipe centers, your first grade students can practice addition, money, doubles addition, and mixed addition and subtraction, all with only a marker and eraser!

Write the Room
Get your students up and moving with these interactive write-the-room centers this November! Covering skills like 3D shape attributes, addition, place value, and subtraction, your students will love exploring the room while practicing their math. You can even put the write-the-room cards in a basket or on a ring and use them as task cards in a center instead, if you don’t want to hang the cards around the room. The recording sheets come with multiple options for differentiation and can be used whether the kids are walking around or seated at a table! 

write the room addition worksheets for first grade with a november theme

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Pre-K Turkey Science Unit: Animal Study

November is here and that means it’s TURKEY TIME! I love bringing fun, seasonal themes into the classroom. It is a surefire way to engage and motivate your students. The fall is full of fun themes, especially for science! What better way to learn about turkeys than by doing a science unit on them? This Pre-K Turkey Science Unit has everything you need!

We start in September by studying Apples, and then in October, we study Bats, Pumpkins, and Spiders. Now that we’ve reached November, this Turkey Science Unit for Pre-K is the perfect addition to your animal studies this fall! 

In this turkey science unit for our littlest learners, everything you need to teach a successful animal study is included – minus the turkey! This unit will give your students hands-on experience learning all about turkeys, including the life cycle of a turkey, the parts of a turkey, and so much more! This Turkey science unit is great for preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, and even your homeschool science unit studies. 

If you’re looking for other November and Thanksgiving activities, make sure to check out our collection of Thanksgiving Crafts for Little Learners and simple activities like our free I am Thankful Turkey project which is the perfect keepsake to have your students make. Another favorite of mine that fits in perfectly with this Pre-K Turkey science unit is our Turkey Name Building activity.  

Plus, you can get all of the fall science units I mentioned above and SO much more as part of our Endless Science {Growing} MEGA Bundle for Pre-K! When the bundle is complete you’ll have more than 40 engaging pre-k science units for your students, meaning you’ll never have to worry and stress about fitting in and planning science again! 

What better way to learn about turkeys than by doing a science unit on them? This pre-k turkey science unit has everything you need!

Pre-k Turkey Science Unit

With a week-long lesson plan, you’ll have no problem fitting this turkey science unit into your busy schedule!

In this Turkey science unit for our littlest learners, you’ll have everything you need to teach an engaging, hands-on, science unit study. Students will learn about the turkey life cycle, the parts of a turkey, and so many fun facts about these feathered creatures.

Our science units come packed full of everything you could possibly need to teach a successful unit. Not only does this unit come with turkey projects, turkey crafts, and everything else you need to help your students learn about turkeys, but it also comes with tons of teacher resources, just for you!

This pre-k science unit on the turkey is a great way to introduce your little learners to science.

Inside you’ll find: 

This Pre-k science unit is jam-packed with resources for teaching and learning all about turkeys. The unit includes:

  • Unit Overview covering all that is included in the unit
  • Lesson Plans for the week
  • At-Home Letter to send to families
  • Teacher Guide to give you all of the background knowledge you need
  • Science Center Ideas
  • Science Questions to help you lead discussions throughout the unit
  • Book, Video, and Song Lists 
  • Turkey Facts Powerpoint and Posters
  • Turkey Nonfiction Emergent Reader
  • Question of the Week to pique student interest at the start of the unit
  • Parts of a Turkey Posters 
  • Parts of a Turkey Worksheets
  • Turkey Life Cycle Posters
  • Turkey Life Cycle Worksheet/Hat
  • Turkey Fingerplay
  • Turkey Shape Craft
  • Turkey STEM Centers

Plus all of these bonus materials too!

  • Writing Center Cards and Papers
  • Turkey Facts or Animal Research Craft
  • Definition Posters
  • Word Wall
  • 5 Little Turkeys Emergent Reader
  • Turkey Bingo Game
  • Turkeys Can, Have, Are Activity
  • Circle Maps

Materials Needed: 

We know how valuable your time is, so we always try to base the activities in our science units on what you might already have handy around the classroom or at home. You’ll find more materials listed within the unit depending on which crafts and projects you choose to complete! Some of the materials you will need to prepare for this Thanksgiving Unit Study:

Using the Pre-K Turkey Science Unit: Animal Study

Once you have purchased and downloaded the Pre-K Turkey Science Unit, we recommend printing the posters on cardstock and laminating them so you can use them year after year. There are multiple activities, crafts, and projects included in this pre-k science unit, meaning preparation will vary depending on what you choose to do with your students! First, check out some of the teacher resources that come in this unit.

Turkey Unit Overview

Our unit overview shows you a small glimpse of EVERYTHING that comes in this collection of engaging Thanksgiving science activities with suggestions on when and how to use each resource.

Turkey Science Unit Study Lesson Plans

These week-long lesson plans provide you with an outline of when and how to use all of the materials in this unit. The lesson plans are merely a suggestion to help you get started since we know that everyone fits science into their school day or week differently. Choose what is best for you and your students using the lesson plans and the provided unit overview.

Turkeys Science Unit Home Letter

Parents love knowing what their child is learning about at school and students love to share with their families! Use this provided home letter to print (they come two-to-a-page,) cut, and send home with your students to clue families into the latest happenings in pre-k science.

Teacher Guide for Pre-K Turkey Science Unit

How much do you already know about turkeys? Not too much? Well, that’s okay! That’s why each one of our science units comes with a teacher guide! Our Turkey Teacher Guide is filled with facts and information about turkeys to get you up to speed before you start to teach the unit to your students. Plus, it’s always good to have extra fun facts for those kids that will be begging for more! 

Science Center Ideas and Science Questions

It’s hard to keep your science center materials new and engaging for your students. Use our suggested ideas and questions to make an interactive center that goes along perfectly with these Thanksgiving science activities! Plus, we provide you with curated lists of questions to spark discussion, creativity, and critical thinking in your littlest learners. You can use questions from our Turkey-specific questions list or our general “Science Talk” questions list.

Turkey Science unit song MR. Tom Turkey

Collections of Turkey Songs, Videos, and Books

In your download, you’ll receive curated lists of songs, videos, and books that can be used with your students throughout the science unit. You can pull from these lists anytime you need to start a new lesson, fill some time, or transition to another activity! Best of all, the lists are clickable and take you right to the link to watch, listen, or purchase the book.

Science unit for prek Turkey Facts

Turkey Facts PowerPoint and Posters

Our Turkey Facts PowerPoint can be displayed on your screen/board. Also included are the Turkey Facts Posters that match the PowerPoint and can be printed, laminated, displayed, and saved for years to come. Students will love learning fun facts about turkeys. And don’t forget, if you need some more background knowledge or have kids that want to know even more about turkeys, make sure to check out the teacher guide in the unit for more information!

Nonfiction Turkey Emergent Reader

After introducing turkeys to your students with the Turkey Facts PowerPoint and Posters, use this “What Can Turkeys Do?” emergent reader to help students identify the most important facts about turkeys. Filled with real-life pictures, this emergent reader can be used in whole-group or small-group settings and is perfect to place in your reading center for students to explore on their own. Kids love taking their turkey emergent readers home to read to their families. 

This is a fun pre-k turkey science unit that includes lots of different hands-on activities. It's perfect for the Thanksgiving season!

Parts of a Turkey Posters and Worksheets

Teach students all about the different parts of turkeys with these posters and worksheets. The posters include both real-life and clipart options and come with matching labeling worksheets, plus fun glyphs to have students review the parts of a turkey while also practicing their listening skills!

Prek turkey life cycle posters and hat

Life Cycle of a Turkey Posters

These posters are perfect for teaching your young students all about the life cycle of a turkey. With real-life and clipart options you can use the different stage definition cards to have students put the life cycle in order after reviewing the posters that show the entire cycle. Students will especially love getting to make a fun hat to show what they know after learning about the turkey life cycle. Your students will have so much fun making this turkey hat/worksheet activity, they won’t even realize that they’re learning.

This pre-k turkey science unit is a fantastic way to study animals with your students. With this fun and informative study, students will learn all about turkeys! Turkey Life cycle hat and posters

Turkey Fingerplay 

Our youngest learners love songs and rhymes! This turkey fingerplay will have your students singing, dancing, and smiling each time you do it! I love to use fingerplays as transitions throughout the day after the kids get the hang of them. 

Question of the Week

With your Pre-K Turkey Science Unit download, you’ll also receive a Question of the Week header. I love to start every unit off with a question that piques the interest and curiosity of my students. The kids also love to go home and ask the same question to their families and report back the next day. The question of the week is a great discussion starter and can also be a good way to tie in graphing!

Turkey Shape Craft

With simple directions and materials, students will love making this turkey shape craft to go along with the turkey science unit! You will love how cute these crafts come out, perfect for a November bulletin board or to send home as a Thanksgiving decoration. You’ll also love that you can squeeze in a quick lesson about 2D shapes while making this craft.

Turkey STEM Centers

After learning about turkeys all week, give students a chance to explore and create on their own with these turkey STEM challenges. Students can make a “turkey trap” with materials like empty boxes, pipe cleaners, and tape. Students can also explore whether or not they think a feather will sink or float. These centers come with detailed instructions, including critical thinking questions to ask your students and recording sheets.

What better way to learn about turkeys than by doing a science unit on them? This pre-k turkey science unit has everything you need!

Definition Posters

It is always important for students to gain an understanding of the different vocabulary words that they’ll be hearing throughout the unit when we introduce a new topic, which is why I love these posters! Use these definition posters to teach students the simplified definitions of words related to turkeys that you’ll be referring to during the week. With real-life photos, these posters are one of the first things added to my “print, laminate, and save” pile! 

Word Wall Cards

Display the words that you’ll be using while discussing turkeys in different places around the classroom. These word wall cards can be hung up on the board, put in a pocket chart, or put on a ring to allow students to review and familiarize themselves with them.

Turkey Facts or Animal Research Craft

If you’re interested in a craft that has more steps and takes a little bit more time to make, or you’re looking for a way to tie research into this unit, then this Turkey Facts or Research Craft is for you! Use our provided template and directions to help students create this turkey project. Then, if you have students that need a bit more of a challenge, you can use one of the turkey facts or turkey research options for students to add to their craft. With several different options, this project has a little something for everyone!

Five little turkeys emergent reader

Five Little Turkeys Emergent Reader

Students will love counting down from five with this fun emergent reader. You can use this as a whole group activity or in your small groups, and it’s a great way to squeeze some math in as well as reading. It’s also a great little chant/song to use during transition times or downtime throughout the week.

Turkey and Turkey Facts Circle Maps

Circle maps are a type of graphic organizer and can be used with drawings or words. I love to make one as a whole group at the start of the unit and then again at the end to see how much the kids have learned. They are also great for your older students to use as a starting point when collecting facts and information about turkeys.

Turkeys Can, Have, Are Activity 

After learning about turkeys, have students complete this Turkeys Can, Have, Are activity by identifying what turkeys can do, what turkeys have, and what turkeys are. This can be done as a whole group activity, as individual work, or a mix of both. 

Looking for a pre-k science unit on turkeys? Look no further! This animal study unit has everything you need to get started.

Writing Center Cards and Paper

After purchasing the unit, you’ll find writing materials to place in a center throughout the week-long unit or to even use as a whole group activity. You’ll receive horizontal and vertical papers with and without lines, plus writing cards in both lower and uppercase letters, with pictures so that your young students can identify the words. This is a great way to spark creativity and practice vocabulary and I love to see the drawings and stories (verbal or written) that the students come up with! There are so many different ways to use and incorporate these writing materials into your classroom.

Turkey science unit turkey bingo

Turkey Bingo Game

Need an easy and fun Thanksgiving activity for that short holiday week? Look no further than this Turkey Bingo Game! With a life cycle option and a sillier “turkey jobs” option, use these bingo games to reinforce what students have learned about the turkey life cycle or to have some fun in the classroom! The bingo boards and cards come in color and black & white. I love using bingo as a fun Friday activity, during my holiday parties, or just because! Bingo is also easy to have a parent volunteer come in and run. I love to use counters as the pieces to cover up the pictures on the bingo cards, but lots of people use paper or anything else they have on hand.

Get your pre-k students excited about science with this turkey themed unit! This pack includes a study of animals, including their physical characteristics and life cycles.

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November Math and Literacy Centers for Kindergarten

November is such a great time of year! Sure, it can be busy, but hey, what month isn’t? Not only do we have a few days off from school throughout the month (hooray!), but it also marks the beginning of the holiday season for most of us. And there is a lot to celebrate in November! There are so many great November activities for our kindergarten students.

At the beginning of the month, we might teach our young learners about Election Day with activities like this emergent reader. Next comes Veteran’s Day, where we can use this emergent reader to discuss the special day and this craft to celebrate. And then of course, we have Thanksgiving towards the end of the month, where we take time to be grateful for all that we have and to spend time with our loved ones. At Thanksgiving time, I love to do fun crafts like this handprint turkey craft and thankful turkey activity to help my young students identify the most important things in their lives.

As you can see, there are so many good November themes for kindergarten. I love to incorporate all of these themes into my centers so that my students feel like they’re celebrating all month long! Our November Math and Literacy Centers for Kindergarten are jam-packed with fall-themed and Thanksgiving-themed math and literacy centers for kindergarten that your students will love. And if you’re looking to bring November into your science curriculum, these November science experiments are a great addition.

These November math and literacy centers are perfect for kindergarten students! With a variety of activities to choose from, these centers will help keep your little learners engaged and learning all month long.

November Math and Literacy Centers for Kindergarten

You will receive 20 math centers for kindergarten and 20 literacy centers for kindergarten, all fall and Thanksgiving-themed! These centers can be used as just that, centers, or for whole group work, small group review, or even sent home for extra practice.

Your students will love practicing their math and literacy skills with these hands-on, engaging math and literacy centers that are full of bright and cheerful clipart. Not only are these fall-themed math and literacy centers perfect for kindergarten, but we also make them for pre-K and first-grade classrooms as well! Some people like to purchase multiple grade levels of the centers so they have tons of differentiation options for their students.

Want to know the very BEST part about these centers? Each month, the category and style of the center remain the same, with only the theme and skill changing. This means that after a few weeks of using these centers, your students will be familiar with the routine and you’ll be loving the fact that you’re not hearing the question “what are we supposed to do again?”

Inside you’ll find:

In LITERACY you will receive 4 weeks of:

  • Pocket Chart & Match-up Centers
  • Poetry Centers
  • Write & Wipe and Puzzle Centers
  • Write the Room Centers
  • Writing Center Activities

Adding up to 20 total literacy centers!

In MATH you will receive 4 weeks of:

  • Dice Centers
  • Match-up and Puzzle Centers
  • Partner Games
  • Write and Wipe Centers
  • Write the Room Centers

Giving you 20 total math centers!

That amounts to a grand total of 40 fall-themed math and literacy centers to use this November. Your kindergarten students will love the variety and will be having so much fun, they won’t even realize they’re learning!

Math Skills Covered

  • Graphing, 3D Shapes, Capacity, Coins, Number Order, Equal Groups, Number Bonds, Skip Counting, Number Words, One More/One Less, Measuring Weight… and more!

Literacy Skills Covered

  • Writing, Poetry, Sequencing, Sight Words, Onset & Rime, Letter ID, Beginning Sounds, Rhyming, Characters, Ending Sounds, Nouns, Segmenting… and more!
These November math and literacy centers are perfect for kindergarten students! With a focus on Thanksgiving and fall themes, these centers will keep your students engaged and learning.

Using the November Math and Literacy Centers for Kindergarten

If you’re using the monthly math and literacy centers for the first time, it can seem a little daunting. I mean, 40 centers is A LOT of centers! Here are some suggestions to help you:

  • Look through the centers and print what you want to use. Separate into piles of what needs copying, laminating, cutting, etc. Tackle that as you can. These laminating sheets work well and we love this laminator. We’ve used these dice or these foam ones for even more QUIET!
  • Depending on how you organize your centers, you might want to give your students all of the options for the entire month, or you might want to break it down into four(ish) weeks. You could have one center for dice games, one for partner games, etc. Or if you do math and literacy centers at the same time, you can pick and choose which ones to use where and when and rotate as you see fit.
  • Introduce the directions ahead of time and model using the centers for your students. Set clear expectations for each type of center.
  • Most importantly: have fun! These centers are a surefire way to engage your students in learning, laughing, and having fun all throughout the month of November.
november sentence scramble for kindergarten students pocket charts

November Literacy Centers for Kindergarten

Pocket Chart and Match-Ups
These activities are designed to be used in a pocket chart center, where students can move around the pieces, but this can also be done on the floor or a table. Students can practice sequencing the steps of cooking a turkey, putting together sentences, onset & rime, and reading high-frequency words.

Poem of the week printables for kindergarten november math and literacy centers

Poetry
Are you always searching for good, age-appropriate poetry for your young students? I love these four poems (3 November poems and 1 nursery rhyme) because they help our students fall in love with the patterns and rhymes of poetry in a kid-friendly way. Use the poetry journal, notebook poems, and pocket chart poem activities to teach each poem and practice other language skills, like high-frequency words and comprehension.

write and wipe centers for kindergarten students with a thanksgiving theme

Write & Wipe and Puzzles
With two write-and-wipe activities and two puzzles, these centers are perfect for laminating and pulling out year to year. Using a dry erase marker, students can practice their upper and lowercase letters, beginning sounds, and sight words. Plus, they can have fun building puzzles while reviewing onset & rime and rhyming words.

Write the Room
Write the room activities are some of my favorite activities for the kindergarten classroom! Students love being able to leave their desks and move around the classroom independently, and I love that it’s an easy way to review skills. These November write the room centers cover skills like nouns, segmenting cvc words, and identifying ending sounds.

Writing
It is so important to have an engaging writing center for your students to work independently or with classmates. With four different writing card topics and tons of different writing page options, your students can have new words and topics to write about every week during November. Or introduce them all at the beginning of the month and let them go wild! Either way, your students will love writing with Thanksgiving food words, family and friends words, then and now words, and woodland animal words this month! I love to put the cards on rings so that they stay together, but a pocket chart or basket works great too.

roll & cover kindergarten math game for November centers

November Math Centers for Kindergarten

Dice Games
These games are exactly what they sound like, games to play with dice! How easy is that? These centers include a Color by Code activity, a Roll and Cover game, a Roll and Graph game, and a Build a Turkey activity. Some of the games, like the roll and graph, come with paper die to build and use. Others can be used with just a plain ol’ regular die! The roll and cover game can be printed and laminated to use over and over, or use the roll and “color” option instead for each child to complete.

kindergarten students identify coins with a Thanksgiving theme

Match-Ups and Puzzles
Match-up activities can be done in a pocket chart, on a table, or on the floor. Whatever works for you! These match-ups and puzzles are also great to laminate if you want to use them again. Your students will love practicing making numbers, sorting heavy and light objects, and identifying coins and 3D shapes with these November math centers.

spin, add, and cover math games for kindergarten students with a Thanksgiving theme

Partner Games
We all need to play with friends sometime, right? These partner games are easy to set up and can be played in pairs. Your students can work together to play a Race to 10 game, a matching card game, a Spin, Add, and Cover game, and a Turkey Spin and Race board game. They will be having so much fun that they won’t even realize they are practicing several math skills like identifying number words, 3D shapes, and adding.

Write and Wipe
Write and wipe games are meant to be laminated or placed in a page protector to be used over and over again. The kids always love getting to use the dry erase markers. With these November math write and wipe centers, your kindergarten students can practice equal groups, number bonds, skip counting, and 3D shapes, all with just a marker and eraser!

word color by number worksheets for litter learners

Write the Room
This November, get your students moving with these interactive write the room centers! Covering skills like measuring capacity, identifying coins, number order, and 3D shapes, your students will love exploring the room while practicing their math. Here’s a tip: if you can’t make write the room work in your classroom, use the write the room cards in a basket or on a ring and use them as task cards in a center instead! The recording sheets can be used whether the kids are walking around or seated at a table.

These November math and literacy centers are perfect for kindergarten students! With a variety of activities to choose from, these centers will help keep your little learners engaged and learning all month long.

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Pre-K Spiders Science Unit: an Animal Study

How do we feel about spiders? Are you “Team Spiders Are So Helpful, I Love Them!” or “Team Get Them Away From Me!”? Whichever team you’re on, bring science to life with this Pre-k Spiders Science Unit Study! Fun for students with a spider life cycle worksheet, activities, & more!

No matter how you feel about REAL spiders, you’re guaranteed to LOVE everything about this Pre-K Spiders Science Unit and engaging little learners in animal studies. Share this unit during Halloween season in October to make it extra fun!

Fall and October are the perfect time for science; it’s nice enough outside to make real-life connections to your studies. Plus, Halloween is the best time to engage students in exploration and interactive lessons like this spiders science unit.

If you’re looking for other fall fun, you can check out our 21 Stem Ideas for fall or our other science units on bats and pumpkins! You can get all of these units and SO much more as part of our Endless Science {Growing} MEGA Bundle for Pre-K! And if you want even more spiders, I love incorporating these spider counting mats into my math center and using little plastic spiders for the kids to count with. This spider counting activity with cooked spaghetti is also super fun for the kids!

A collection of crafts and activities to teach young students about spiders

Pre-K Spiders Science Unit and Activities

With a week-long lesson plan, our Spiders Science Unit needs very little prep and is appropriate for learners at the preschool level all the way through first grade. 

In this Spiders science unit for our youngest learners, you’ll have everything you need to teach an engaging, hands-on, science unit study. Students will learn about the spider life cycle, the parts of a spider, and so many fun facts of these creepy, crawly creatures in this spiders unit study.

Our science units come packed full of everything you could possibly need to teach a successful unit. Not only does this unit come with spider projects, spider crafts, and everything else you need to help your students with the study of spiders, but it also comes with tons of teacher resources, just for you!

Bring science to life with this pre-k spiders science unit study! Fun for students with a spider life cycle worksheet, activities, & more!

Inside you’ll find: 

This study of spiders for prek learners is jam-packed full of resources for teaching and learning all about spiders. The unit includes:

  • Unit Overview covering all that is included in the unit
  • Lesson Plans for the week
  • At-Home Letter to send to families
  • Teacher Guide to give you all of the background knowledge you need
  • Science Center Ideas
  • Science Questions to help you lead discussions throughout the unit
  • Book, Video, and Song Lists 
  • Spider Facts Powerpoint and Posters
  • Spider Nonfiction Emergent Reader
  • Question of the Week to engage students and pique their interest at the start of the unit
  • Parts of a Spider Posters 
  • Parts of a Spider Worksheets
  • Spider Life Cycle Posters
  • Spider Life Cycle Worksheet/Hat
  • Spider Fingerplay
  • Spider Web Stem Challenge
  • Marble Spider Web Craft

Plus all of these bonus materials too!

  • Writing Center Cards and Papers
  • Spiders Facts or Animal Research Craft
  • Definition Posters
  • Types of Spiders Posters
  • Word Wall
  • Positional Words Emergent Reader
  • Spider Bingo Game
  • Spider Math Center Games
  • Circle Maps
  • Glitter Spider Web Craft

Materials needed for the Spiders Science Unit: 

We know how valuable your time is, so we always try to base the activities in our units on what you might already have hanging around the classroom or at home. You’ll find more materials listed within the unit depending on which crafts and projects you choose to complete! Some of the materials you will need to prepare for the Spiders Science Unit:

Using the Pre-K Spiders Science Unit: an Animal Study

Once you have purchased and downloaded the Pre-K Spiders Science Unit, we recommend printing the posters on cardstock and laminating them so you can use them year after year. There are multiple activities, crafts, and projects included in this science unit, meaning preparation will vary depending on what you choose to do with your students! First, check out some of the teacher resources that come in this unit.

Spiders Unit Overview

Our unit overview shows you a small glimpse of EVERYTHING that comes in your Pre-K Spiders Science Unit with suggestions on when and how to use each resource.

Spiders Science Unit Study Lesson Plans

These week-long lesson plans provide you with an outline of when and how to use all of the materials in this unit. The lesson plans are merely a suggestion to help you get started since we know that everyone fits science into their school day or week differently. Simply pick and choose what is best for you and your students using the lesson plans and the provided unit overview.

Spiders Science Unit Home Letter

Parents love knowing what their child is learning about at school and students love to share with their families! Use this provided home letter to print (they come two-to-a-page,) cut, and send home with your students to clue families into the latest happenings in science.

Teacher Guide for Pre-K Spiders Science Unit

Do you already know everything there is to know about spiders? Yeah…me neither! That’s why each one of our science units comes with a teacher guide! Our Spider Teacher Guide is filled with facts and information about spiders to get you up to speed before you start to teach the unit to your students. Plus, it’s always good to have extra fun facts for those kids that will want to know everything and more about spiders.

Bring science to life with this pre-k spiders science unit study! Fun for students with a spider life cycle worksheet, activities, & more!

Science Center Ideas and Science Questions

If you’re like me, you probably struggle to make sure that you are constantly changing out materials to keep your science center engaging for your students. Use our suggested ideas and questions to make an interactive center that perfectly correlates with the Spiders Science Unit! Plus, we provide you with curated lists of questions to spark discussion, creativity, and critical thinking in your littlest learners. You can use questions from our Spiders-specific questions list and/or our general “Science Talk” questions list.

Collections of Spider Songs, Videos, and Books

In your download, you’ll receive curated lists of songs, videos, and books that can be used with your students throughout the science unit. You can pull from these lists anytime you need to start a new lesson, fill some time, or transition to another activity! Best of all, the lists are clickable and take you right to the link to watch, listen, or purchase the book.

Spider pictures with facts all about spiders

Spider Facts PowerPoint and Posters

Our Spider Facts PowerPoint can be displayed on your screen/board. Also included are the Spider Facts Posters that match the PowerPoint and can be printed, laminated, displayed, and saved for years to come. Students will love learning all of these fun facts about spiders. And don’t forget, if you need some more background knowledge or have kids that want to know even more about these 8-legged creatures, make sure to check out the teacher guide in the unit for more information!

Nonfiction Spiders Emergent Reader

After introducing spiders to your students with the Spider Facts PowerPoint and Posters, use this “What can a Spider Do?” emergent reader to help students identify the most important facts about spiders. Filled with real-life pictures, this emergent reader can be used in whole-group or small-group settings and is perfect to place in your reading center for students to explore on their own. Kids love taking their spider emergent readers home to read to their family.

Parts of a spiders worksheets and posters bring spiders to life for little learners

Parts of a Spider Posters and Worksheets

Teach students all about the different parts of a spider with these posters and worksheets. The posters include both real-life and clipart options and come with matching labeling worksheets, plus fun glyphs to have students review the parts of a spider while also practicing their listening skills!

spider life cycle worksheets and posters to teach students all about spiders

Spider Life Cycle Posters

These posters are perfect for teaching your young students all about the life cycle of a spider. With real-life and clipart options you can use the different stage definition cards to have students put the life cycle in order after reviewing the posters that show the entire cycle. Students will especially love getting to make a fun hat to show what they know after learning about the spider life cycle. Our kids love building their hats from this spider life cycle worksheet.

Bring science to life with this pre-k spiders science unit study! Fun for students with a spider life cycle worksheet, activities, & more!

Spider Fingerplay and Question of the Week

Our youngest learners love songs and rhymes! This spider fingerplay will have your students singing, dancing, and smiling each time you do it! I love to use fingerplays as transitions throughout the day after the kids get the hang of them. With your Spiders science unit download you’ll also receive a Question of the Week header. I love to start every unit off with a question that piques the interest and curiosity of my students. The kids also love to go home and ask the same question to their families and report back the next day. The question of the week is a great discussion starter and can also be a good way to tie in graphing!

Marble Spider Web Craft

Using a marble with paint is one of the oldest tricks in the book! But have you ever done it with the intent to create a spider web painting? I love this craft because it can be pretty much mess-free and is so simple to do! I like to do it with a few students at a time at my table while the other students work in their centers.

Spider Web STEM Challenge

After learning about spiders all week, give students a chance to explore and create on their own with this STEM challenge. Using materials like dental floss, kidney beans, and clear tape, students will try to make a spider web that can hold an “insect,” or in this case, a bean! Students can work individually, in partners, or in small groups to complete the challenge.

Definition Posters

When teaching a new subject, it’s important for students to gain an understanding of the different vocabulary words that they’ll be hearing throughout the unit. Use these definition posters to teach students the simplified definitions of some spider-related words that you’ll be referring to during the week. With real-life photos, these posters are one of the first things added to my “print, laminate, and save” pile! 

Word Wall Cards

And speaking of vocabulary, I love displaying the words that we’ll be using while discussing spiders in different places around the classroom. These word wall cards are perfect for doing just that! Stick them on the board, in a pocket chart, or on a ring and allow students to review and familiarize themselves with them.

Spider facts crativity for spiders science unit

Spider Facts or Animal Research Craft

If you are looking to dive a little deeper when it comes to spider crafts, then this Spider Facts or Research Craft is for you! Use our provided template and directions to help students create this adorable spiders project. Then, if you have students that need a bit more of a challenge, you can use one of the spider facts or spider research options for students to add to their craft. With several different options, this project has a little something for everyone!

Positional Words Emergent Reader

I love to use emergent readers in my small groups, and if they are related to other skills and topics that we are learning then it’s a double win for me! This Positional Words Spider Emergent Reader will have students practicing reading while also displaying their knowledge of the words “on,” “in,” “under,” and “over.” Students can either glue one of the provided paper spiders on each page or draw their own. 

Glitter spider web craft to teach our youngest learners about spiders

Glitter Spider Web Craft

With our preschool, pre-k, and kindergarten students, we are always looking for ways to sneak in fine motor practice! Using the provided spider web template or drawing your own, students can trace a spider web with glue and shake glitter over it while it’s still wet. The end result is stunning, sparkly spider webs that will make a great bulletin board or Halloween decoration for home!

Spider circle map to teach prek students about spiders animal study

Spider and Spider Facts Circle Maps

Have you ever used circle maps with your students? They’re a type of graphic organizer and can be used with drawings or words. I love to make one as a whole group at the start of the unit and then again at the end to see how much the kids have learned. They are also great for your older students to use as a starting point when collecting facts and information about spiders.

Roll an eye spider match center worksheets

Spider Math Center Activities 

Quick! Get the laminator or the page protectors and make a few copies of these easy, almost no-prep, math centers that go along perfectly with the Pre-K Spiders Science Unit. Students will love seeing what they’re learning about in science being represented in other aspects of their day, and you’ll love getting to break out the plastic spiders, spider rings, mini erasers, and/or googly eyes! These centers will be a hit in October!

spiders science unit worksheets and hands-on writing center

Writing Center Cards and Paper

After purchasing the unit, you’ll find writing materials to place in a center throughout the week-long unit or to even use as a whole group activity. You’ll receive horizontal and vertical papers with and without lines, plus writing cards in both lower and uppercase letters, with pictures so that your young students can identify the words. This is a great way to spark creativity and practice vocabulary and I love to see the drawings and stories (verbal or written) that they come up with!

Kids love playing this spiders bingo game

Spider Bingo Game

Bingo in the classroom is so fun! Use this bingo game, available in color and black & white, as a fun Friday activity, a way to culminate the unit, or even as a Halloween party game! Bingo is also easy to have a parent volunteer come in and run. I love to use counters as the pieces to cover up the pictures on the bingo cards, but lots of people use paper or anything else they have on hand. It may even be the perfect use for those little mini-erasers that we all love to buy so much!

pictures of spiders and definitions

Types of Spiders Posters

As a bonus, we threw in these different types of spiders posters because we just KNOW there will be kids in your class that want to see these creepy creatures up close! Another great thing to print, laminate, and save for the following year just like the other posters. 

Animal research spiders science unit craftivity

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12 spring books for little kids

Spring is here! Texas usually only gets to enjoy about two weeks of it before it becomes too hot, but it is thoroughly enjoyed while it is here. There are so many fun and educational spring books. I have reviewed my favorite ones. I hope that you find some new spring books that you will be able to enjoy either at home with our own children or in the classroom.

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Rainbow of My Own by Don Freeman

Here are 12 of our favorite spring books.

In this classic, heartwarming tale by Don Freeman, a small boy imagines what it would be like to have his very own rainbow to play with.

Let it Rain by Maryann Cocca-Leffler

Here are 12 of our favorite spring books.

Who doesn’t love playing in the rain?  Three young children and their dog enjoy Spring activities in this delightful book by Maryann Cocca-Leffler.

Make Way for Ducklings by Robert McCloskey

Here are 12 of our favorite spring books.

The story of the Mallard ducks of Boston.  Robert McCloskey’s delightfully humorous and yet heartfelt classic.

Who’s Awake in Springtime? by Phillis Gershator

Here are 12 of our favorite spring books.

A playful springtime tale about many different animals preparing to go to sleep.  Perfect for bed time!

Fletcher and the Springtime Blossoms by Julia Rawlinson

Here are 12 of our favorite spring books.

A ‘snowy’ springtime surprise for Fletcher, the little fox. Celebrate the delights of Spring with Fletcher and his friends in Julia Rawlinson’s beautiful book.

A Kite Day by Will Hillenbrand

Here are 12 of our favorite spring books.

Is there anything better to do on a windy day than fly a kite?  Enjoy Bear and his friend as they design, build, fly…and chase their kite!

And Then It’s Spring by Julie Fogliano

Here are 12 of our favorite spring books.

Join a young boy and his dog as they plant a garden and anxiously await those first shoots of Spring in Julie Fogliano’s tender story of hope, anticipation, and patience.

The Tiny Seed by Eric Carle

Here are 12 of our favorite spring books.

Explore the life cycle of a flower through this tiny seed’s story of survival.

The Reason for a Flower by Ruth Heller

Here are 12 of our favorite spring books.

From pollen and seeds, to flowers, the youngest of children can learn about the wonderful world of botany in this beautiful book by Ruth Heller.

When Spring Comes by Kevin Henkes

Here are 12 of our favorite spring books.

A wonderful illustration of anticipation and change in the season from Winter to Spring.

Waiting for Wings by Lois Ehlert

Here are 12 of our favorite spring books.

Explore the life cycle of a butterfly in this fact-filled and colorful blend of science and art by Lois Ehlhert.

Home for a Bunny by Margaret Wise Brown

Here are 12 of our favorite spring books.

Join a sweet and lovable bunny in Margaret Wise Brown’s classic, as he goes on a journey in the springtime to look for a new place to call home.

I hope that you were able to find some new spring books that you can add to your collection. Enjoy!

Beads & Buttons Counting Puzzles 1-20

Counting and one-to-one correspondence are the foundation blocks of mathematics.  All other math skills are built around the simple concept of numbers, which makes learning them, their quantities, and their relevance to each other a crucial part of early childhood education. Introducing activities like counting puzzles helps to strengthen these skills.

Thankfully, early learners LOVE to count and it’s an easy skill to teach – one you can reinforce all day, every day.  Walking down the hallway to the cafeteria with your class? Count the number of classrooms you pass or how many stairs you have to travel up or down.

When we find themes that resonate with our students, it helps them understand and retain what we are teaching. Looking for a fun way to practice number sense with your little learners? Check out this penguin counting craft that can easily be adapted to fit various themes. To further their learning of numbers, take a look at this counting book idea with stickers. 

Decorate your classroom with these fun number posters, and your students will be recognizing and ordering numbers in no time! Incorporate counting into your sensory bins with activities like this Spider Counting Mat Activity.  Or integrate counting into your whole group or read aloud time by enjoying one of these Counting Books for Little Learners.

Playing math games to build number sense is a great way to get kids learning without realizing they’re learning!

counting to 8 with colorful beads and buttons

Counting Puzzles

These FREE counting puzzles for preschoolers are the perfect activity for strengthening counting and building number sense.  Your learners will first count the number of beads on a string and then the number of buttons in the jar before matching them to the written number. 

These number sense counting puzzles will make a fantastic addition to your math center!  Students can complete them independently, and you can check them at the end. Or use them in small groups during math time to help students who need a more hands-on approach.  They also can enhance any whole group lesson by passing out a puzzle piece per student and together finding each puzzle piece for every number in turn. 

Numbers 8 and 9 number sense puzzle sheets

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  • 21 Beads and Button Puzzles Numbers 0-20

These fantastic number sense puzzles for little learners come in both black and white AND color options. Have your students color in the black and white version to create a more personalized set!

get puzzle pieces ready for 0-20 number sense activity

Getting Your Beads & Buttons Counting Puzzles Ready

Prepping your free number puzzles is quick and easy.  You will need: 

child matching number 18 with beads and buttons puzzle pieces

I recommend printing the number puzzles onto cardstock and laminating for both durability and longevity.  This also will allow students to use a dry erase marker on the counting puzzles for an added modification. 

Once you have printed and laminated the puzzles, trim to the edges and cut on the two curved lines, separating each puzzle piece.  For easiest storage, we recommend using rubber bands and keeping 3-4 puzzles together.  Once they are together in sets, store in a quart-sized Ziploc bag or pencil case for quick and easy access.

child holding puzzle piece with the number 8. learning number sense

Using Counting Puzzles with Little Learners

This simple yet effective number sense game has students counting from 1-20 multiple times, as well as identifying a quantity and matching it to the corresponding number which cultivates one-to-one correspondence. 

For first-time use, give students only two puzzles at a time.  As students show mastery, increase the number of puzzles they receive at a time to improve sorting abilities.  

Matching number 8 with 8 colorful beads on a string

For students who may struggle with inaccurate counting, have them use a dry erase marker to cross out each bead and button after it has been counted. This will help them to slow down and be conscious of the items they are counting, increasing accuracy and understanding. Using counting puzzles for a hands-on math game will build their confidence while they’re having fun!

matching number 8 with buttons and beads puzzles

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Download a F-R-E-E copy of our Beads and Button Counting Puzzles for PreK by clicking the link below.  You will automatically be emailed a secure download! 

Looking for more ways to help build number sense?

For more hands-on counting math games, check out our Insect Skip Counting Puzzles for an added challenge. Or look at our Insect Counting Mats for students who need additional hands-on counting practice. Check out all of these fun counting games to build your students’ confidence with number sense.

Numbers and counting is such a fun topic to teach! There are tons of great manipulatives to use and it's a great way to give good base knowledge to kids that will use it all their lives. Here are some of the best number sense activities for little learners! I hope you enjoy!

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Farm and Color Emergent Reader

Farm week in preschool and kindergarten is ALWAYS a fun week! With any themes, it is always so much fun to integrate several subjects together, helping your students better understand (and enjoy) the material. This Farm and Color Emergent Reader is the perfect way to do just that. My oldest loved this book and I am sure your students will enjoy it too! Are you looking for more farm ideas, activities, and printables to do at home or in the classroom? If so click here.

Pages of a farm emergent reader where each page says what color to color the picture.

Farm and Color Emergent Reader contains 11 pages of farm and color words. All you need to do is print and cut pages in half, and then you are ready to go! This book is also easy and straightforward to put together – kindergarteners should be able to independently do so.

Farm and Color Emergent Reader is perfect way to teach students about farm and color words. This free printable is perfect for preschool, kindergarten, and even first grade. It is a great addition to a farm theme or unit.

First, students will read the sentence and then trace the color word. I feel like little kids think anything that involves markers is honestly the best activity ever, so we used markers for tracing.

Farm and Color Emergent Reader is perfect way to teach students about farm and color words. This free printable is perfect for preschool, kindergarten, and even first grade. It is a great addition to a farm theme or unit.

Afterwards, they will color the picture  according to the directions. This is great for encouraging students to pay attention to exactly what they are reading. It is so easy for students to rush through a book like this, without paying attention.

Farm and Color Emergent Reader is perfect way to teach students about farm and color words. This free printable is perfect for preschool, kindergarten, and even first grade. It is a great addition to a farm theme or unit.

Farm and Color Emergent Reader can easily be placed in a literacy center or done as a class. Obviously, younger students will need some guidance. My three year old and I completed this book together. She had a blast with it, but obviously needed much more guidance than a kindergarten student would need. When she was tracing the color word, we talked about each letter and how to trace it. We literally did this for each letter. She was most successful when we did this.

Farm and Color Emergent Reader is perfect way to teach students about farm and color words. This free printable is perfect for preschool, kindergarten, and even first grade. It is a great addition to a farm theme or unit.

She loved being able to color the various pictures and was so excited about making another farm book.  However, she did not understand why she could not color the tractor purple (her favorite color).

Farm and Color Emergent Reader is perfect way to teach students about farm and color words. This free printable is perfect for preschool, kindergarten, and even first grade. It is a great addition to a farm theme or unit.

Are you looking for more farm literacy and math centers? If so check out our very own Farms Literacy and Math Centers. These centers come in color and black and white.

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