Summer Centers and Activities for Pre-K & Kindergarten
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As summer break gets closer, it can be a challenge to keep our students engaged and learning until the last day of school. These Summer Centers and Activities for Pre-K & Kindergarten will incorporate some popular summer themes like seashells, lemonade, ice cream, and more into your lessons. Most importantly, they will help your kiddos strengthen important math and literacy skills along the way!
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Summer Activities and Centers
This amazing summer-themed pack has 21 math and literacy activities with lots of ways to differentiate and play. These activities are hands-on, easy to prep, and include a mix of games, emergent readers, writing activities, math mats, and graphing activities – just to name a few examples!
Check out some of the activities in this summer-themed resource pack below…
Ice Cream Subtraction Clip Cards
Clip cards are always a hit in my classroom and these Ice Cream Subtraction Clip Cards are no exception! They are great for strengthening subtraction skills and fine motor muscles.
Students simply solve the subtraction problems within 10 and clip the answer. Easy and fun!
Flip Flop Magic ‘e’ Match
Matching games are a fun and interactive way to work on important skills and this Flip Flop Magic ‘e’ Matching Game is sure to be popular with your kiddos!
To play, they match the CVCe words to their pictures to make a flip flop pair. This game is perfect for differentiation as one set includes the word by the pictures for word matching support.
Sand Pail Counting Mats
These Sand Pail Counting Mats are hands-on and super versatile! Grab any manipulatives you have on hand and you are ready to play. Playdough, mini erasers, or even REAL seashells are perfect for this activity!
Once you have your manipulatives ready, kiddos can read the numbers or number words (1-20) and fill their sand pails.
Seashell Sight Words
Your kids will love practicing sight words with this customizable Seashell Sight Words Activity! Choose which words you would like your students to work on spelling and writing and simply type them into the EDITABLE file.
Students build the sight words with the seashell letter cards. Then they can practice writing their sight words on the sand pails.
Fun in the Sun Before and After
Looking for an easy and engaging way to work on number order? Then this Fun in the Sun Before and After Activity is perfect!
In this activity, kids pick a sun card, read the number, and write it on a sun on the recording sheet. Then they write the numbers that come before and after.
Scoop Up Sounds
Identifying beginning sounds is a skill that we practice all year long. This Scoop Up Sounds Activity is the perfect way to make practice with beginning sounds engaging and fun!
Students pick an ice cream cone and say the picture name. Then they color the scoop of ice cream with that beginning sound. There is even a second set that includes the letter of the beginning sound written on the cards for extra support!
Even More Summer-Themed Activities…
With these hands-on, interactive centers, your kiddos will love working on literacy skills and activities such as:
- Letter recognition
- Emergent reader
- Beginning sounds
- Letter writing
- CVC words
- CVCe words
- Sight words
- Blends
Get ready to liven up your math centers and have your students excited to practice these math skills:
- Counting (numbers 1-20)
- Addition within 10
- Subtraction within 10
- Ten frames
- Twenty frames
- Before and After
- Graphing
- Number words
All of the activities come in both color and black and white versions for an ink-saving option!
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