Spring into March Math and Literacy Centers is 248 pages full of fun hands-on math and literacy centers that are perfect for your kindergartners to help build a strong foundation in math, number sense and literacy skills. All the centers are common core aligned and encourage independence. Students will love the colorful graphics! There are over 28 complete math and literacy activities that are sure to make your centers a blast!
Each center includes:
Teacher Direction Page for quick referencing and a list of needed materials and copying instructions for each activity
“I Can Statements” to foster student independence.
Rotation Labels for teacher use as visual rotation cards, which allows students to see center choices.
Bin Labels for easy labeling and storage.
Storage Tips and Tools each unit comes with binder labels and instructions for quick and easy storage.
Recording Sheet to hold students accountable.
Answer Key comes with activities where a key is needed.
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Lion/Lamb Letters: students will order uppercase and lowercase letters and write the letters on a recording sheet. There are also several printables to fill in missing letters or focus on uppercase or lowercase letters. (RF.K.1.D, L.K.1.A)
What’s the Vowel Buzz: students will identify CVC pictures, stretch the sounds in the word and isolate the medial sound to find the vowel in the middle. (RF.K.2.D)
CVC Shamrock Puzzles: students will match the CVC picture to the word to complete the shamrock puzzle. (RF.K.2.D)
Hop to it CVC Rhymes: students will use rhyming and beginning sounds to determine how to spell a CVC word. (RF.K.2.E)
CVC “O”ver the Rainbow: students will identify the CVC picture and stretch out the sounds in the word to find the beginning and ending letters. (RF.K.2.D)
“Bee”ginningBlends: students will sort words by blends and either write or color the blend on a recording sheet. (RF.K.3)
Sight Word Search: students will search the room for sight words and write the words (choice of 36 words). (RF.K.3.C)
It’s Raining Sight Words: students will build a sight word using rain drops. (RF.K.3.c)
Twisted Sight Words: students will unscramble “twisted” sight words to reveal the new sight word. (RF.K.3.C)
Roll and Build a Treasure: students will practice writing sight words in a fun independent game to help the leprechaun find his gold. (RF.K.3.C)
Weather Word Write: students will learn new vocabulary words when they write weather terms. (RF.K.3.C)
Weather Word List: students will learn how to make a list using the mini-word ring. (RF.K.3.C)
Weather Reproducible: students will read and fill in the missing word with this interactive emergent reader. (RF.K.3.C, RF.K.4)
Weather Words Sentence Building Activities: students will practice building sentences, work on spacing words, capital letters and punctuation.
(RF.K.1.B, RF.K.1.C, L.K.2.A, L.K.2.B)
My Weather Journal: students will use writing and observations to complete a weather journal.
March: Lion or Lamb: students will predict the weather in the beginning and ending of March.
ting on with Gold: students will choose a coin (11-20) and write the two numbers that follow. (K.CC.A.1, K.CC.A.3)
Shamrock Tally: students will match numbers to tally’s to complete a shamrock puzzle and then practice writing both. (K.CC.B.4, K.CC.B.5)
Shamrock Tally: students will match numbers to tally’s to complete a shamrock puzzle and then practice writing writing both. (K.CC.B.4, K.CC.B.5)
Carrot Count: students will continue to build numbers using twenty frames. (K.CC.B.4, K.CC.B.5)
Crazy Bird Base Ten: students will look deeper at numbers to see how they are made up of tens and ones. (L.K.1.A, K.NBT.A.1)
Odd and Even Birds: students will sort and write odd and even numbers. (K.CC.A.1)
The Greatest Worm: students will compare numbers and use the appropriate symbol. (K.CC.B.7)
Time for Spring: students will read digital clocks (hour/half hour) and then draw the hands to match on an analog clock. (K.MD)
Leprechaun Coin Count students will count nickels by 5’s to help the leprechaun count his money. (K.CC.A.2, K.CC.A.3)
Buggy Bonds: students will observe the relationship between numbers using bonds. (K.OA.A.2, K.OA.A.3)
Caterpillar Subtraction: students will use objects to subtract and then write number sentences on a recording sheet. (K.CC.A.3, K.OA.A.1)