Summer Math Activity - Ice Cream Addition & Subtraction Practice
Printable ice-cream-themed practice pages for addition and subtraction number facts.
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Printable ice-cream-themed practice pages for addition and subtraction number facts.
Solve addition equations using number bonds, tens frames, number lines, or number sentences, with objects as counters, and record answers.
Look at each picture, sound out the word, and choose the correct capital or lowercase letter to complete the word (e.g., words involving letters A, B, S/C, C/B).
Read a short passage about Kate making and drinking hot cocoa, then answer three comprehension questions (Who made the cup of hot cocoa? What color was the cup? Where did Kate sit?).
Read a word and look at the picture on the left of each row, then look at 3 pictures in that row, circle the one that rhymes, and color it. Words shown: hat, sub, fox, pen, wig.
Assemble a self-correcting puzzle, then write the puzzle's words in alphabetical order on a recording sheet.
Students label picture cards, play a memory matching game, connect items that go together, sort items into categories, identify antonyms, identify synonyms, and compare same-and-different picture pairs, using 24 fall-themed picture cards (acorns, apples, autumn, candies, cobwebs, costume, corn, chestnuts, dinner…
Read four fall-themed sentences with errors (e.g., 'the fire iswarm', 'is the fox is fast.', 'the CORN is sweet', 'i havean apple.'), identify what's wrong, and write out the corrected sentence, then color the pictures.
Cut out a snowman ruler at the bottom of the page, then use it to measure the height of pictures and write the answer in a box.
Identify the shape of pictured everyday objects (e.g., button, clock, window, wheel, pillow, die, box, ball, gift, orange) and cut/paste each into the flower labeled with the matching shape.
Log books read over the summer and color in daily reading minutes; complete word-study (syllables, prefixes, suffixes), vocabulary, and reading-comprehension pages; complete grammar pages (sentence types, compound/complex sentences, commas, quotation marks/dialogue, nouns, verb tense, adjectives/adverbs); write paragraphs and…
Draw more snowmen to fill a ten frame to make 10, then complete the matching addition number sentence for each pair (e.g., 2 + __ = 10).
On 'Tall or Short?', circle the taller or shorter item as directed for four picture pairs and color the picture; on 'Heavy or Light?', circle the lighter or heavier item as directed for four picture pairs and color the picture.
Activity 1 ('Find the Time!'): look at each clock and cut-and-paste the correct digital time label under it. Activity 2 ('Telling Time'): look at each stated time and draw the short (hour) and long (minute) hands on a blank clock face to match.
Look at pictures and fill in a missing beginning, middle, or ending sound; then, across five separate pages, trace CVC words for each short vowel (A, E, I, O, U) matched to pictures.
Students brainstorm descriptive words for seven autumn nouns (leaf, squirrel, pumpkin, school bus, apple pie, scarecrow, sweater) in a chart, write descriptive sentences using those words with transition words/commas, then write a rough and final draft of a cinquain poem about one of the nouns, with an optional syllable-count challenge.
Place counters onto an acorn, leaf, or apple outline until it is fully covered, count how many counters were used, and write the number on the page.
On 'Sunflowers for Sale!', color in the coins needed to match a price tag on each sunflower; on 'I Know My Coins', write the cent value of a quarter, nickel, dime, and penny, then cut and glue the correct coins into labeled boxes.
Color 2D shapes green and 3D shapes blue; color symmetrical shapes; draw a snowman using specified shapes and count/record how many of each shape were used; count and graph shapes then identify most/least; cut and glue shape names onto matching shapes and trace them.
Cut out and sort shapes under '2D' or '3D' and color them; draw a flower using specified shapes (circle, rectangles, triangles) and tally how many of each shape were used; trace shapes and match them to their names (rectangle, hexagon, triangle, trapezoid, circle); cut and sort shapes as 'Equal Parts' or 'Not Equal Parts.'
Read a list of 10 summer words and write them in alphabetical order on numbered blanks; a matching answer-key version is also included.
Cut out the beginning-blend letter pairs and paste them onto the correct word slot to complete each pictured word, choosing from a blend answer bank (sp, cr, fr, st, cl, tr, sn, gr).
Sound out a given word (e.g., 'cat', 'pen', 'dig', 'box', 'tub'), look at a picture, change the first letter to match the picture, and write the new word (e.g., cat -> bat).
A multi-page phonics packet on word families across five short vowel sounds (A, E, I, O, U).