Celebrating holidays and themes is the BEST, and having easy-to-prep hands-on centers to support those holidays or themes makes learning so much fun!
This bundle includes SO much good stuff, and if you pair the activities with sensory bins and fine motor tools, you'll have engaging activities that your young learners can enjoy all month long.
So what's included?
You'll get 17 printable activities that you can prepare for your class.
Math Centers:
Counting Coins (1:1 correspondence) - build rainbow puzzles by matching the number with the correct number of coins.
Rainbow Race (color identification and graphing) - spin the spinner and place a token in the corresponding color's column. The first color to reach the top wins.
Shape Tracing (2D shapes) - trace the 2D shapes with small objects or dot daubers.
St. Patrick's Building (geoboards) - copy the design on the card and count the number of rubber bands used.
Festive Cubes (snap cubes) - copy the design on the card using snap cubes and trace the word.
Making 6/Making 12 (counting on) - count the number of coins in the pot and add coins to reach the target number of 6 or 12.
Fine Motor Mazes (logic) - use small manipulatives or play dough snakes to trace a path through the maze.
Leprechaun Beard (1:1 correspondence) - pull a number card and add that many pegs to the leprechauns beard
Shamrock Race (counting to 50 or 100) - pull a number card and cover the same number on your board. You can also play this game with dice. Roll a die and cover that many numbers on your board starting with the number 1. Keep rolling and covering numbers until you reach 50 or 100.
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Literacy Centers:
St. Patrick's Alphabet Puzzles (uppercase and lowercase matching) - create puzzles by matching upper and lowercase letters.
Leprechaun Race (alphabet and beginning sound identification) - roll the die and move your game piece around the game board. Identify either the letter or beginning sound of the square you land on.
Pots of Short A Words (cvc words) - look at the picture on the pot and use magnetic letters or letter beads to build the words.
Searching for Shamrocks (letter identification) - spin the spinner or pull and letter card and find the corresponding letter on the work mat.
Lucky Beginning Sounds (initial sounds) - look at the letter on the spoon and cover the lucky charms with the corresponding beginning sounds.
St. Patrick's Day Things (word wall) - place the word wall in your writing center and practice writing new words.
Color Words (word wall) - place the word wall in your writing center and practice writing color words.
Shamrock Bingo (upper and lowercase letter matching) - play bingo by matching the upper and lowercase letters.
Pre-writing Strips (pre-writing skills) - trace the lines using a dry-erase marker.
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These activities were created to use in my prek classroom and I hope you'll find them useful, and that your students will LOVE them!
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