Is it already that time to get out your Kindergarten Spring Centers? Students are starting to get more antsy this time of the year, so it’s important to keep engagement high. Save yourself some time during this busy time of year and check out these Spring Activities for literacy and math centers.
Kindergarten Spring Centers for Math
Do you notice that addition seems to come easier to students than subtraction? I knew I wanted to make a center activity to work on simple subtraction. This game is a BUMP game, have you played these? The kids loved them!! If they get the subtraction word correct, they put a game piece on the answer. When they get a card with that answer again, they get to double up their piece and stay safe. However, when they only have 1 piece on the number, and their opponent rolls the same answer, they can be bumped off that number!
Even though time and money aren’t a standard in Kindergarten anymore, I still introduce it. I also work on it more in depth with my high ability students. This activity lets students match the price tag to the card with the coins on it. You can also use real coins to count out the money needed to buy the item.
Telling time can be a difficult concept, so we mostly work on telling time to the hour. This telling time Kindergarten spring center does include cards to the half hour as well. Students simply grab a card, tell the time, then roll the dice and move around the board game.
Spring Kindergarten Literacy Centers
Spring time is when we started hitting word families hard. I wanted to make something that I could easily differentiate for students. This Spin-A-Flower game comes with 3 letter and 4 letter word families. You can easily distribute worksheets based on the reading ability of that student or group. Students will spin a word family, find a flower with that word family in it, and then color it.
No matter what time of year it is, students can always get more practice on syllables. It is such a hard skill for them to grasp! My April Showers Syllable Sort helps students clap syllables up to 4 syllables in a word.
I slowly introduce blends in the Spring. This activity lets students match up the beginning blend, word, and picture. You can easily differentiate this activity and use any variation of the 3 cards.
These are just a preview of some of the activities in my Spring Activities bundle. There are 11 different Kindergarten Spring centers with many of them having multiple ways to play!FREE Spring Literacy Center
Do you have some students that still need help reading simple CVC words and blending words? Grab this FREE real and nonsense word sort to give your students a little extra practice.
A response sheet is included to hold student’s accountable for their work!
You make me want to teach K again!!! 🙂
Melissa from The Husky Loving Teacher