It's Fall! Kindergarten Math & Literacy Center: Who? What? Where?
Read a 3-sentence story about a boy named Bob buying a pumpkin, then answer who, what, and where questions in writing.
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Read a 3-sentence story about a boy named Bob buying a pumpkin, then answer who, what, and where questions in writing.
Read fall-themed sentences and fill in the missing preposition from a word bank (on, in, to, under, by), then color the pictures.
Write a story about a fall-themed picture describing what happens first, next, and last; color the picture and draw an illustration of the story's ending.
Look at each task card image (leaves on/off a tree) and write the fraction representing leaves on the tree or on the ground; for one challenge card, simplify the fraction.
Look at each picture, sound out the word (cup, sled, mitten, snow, hat, shovel), write how many syllables it has, then color the picture.
Look at each picture and read the word, then color verbs red and nouns green (dog, run, penguin, cap, snowflake, hop).
Read each sentence with a blank and fill in the missing preposition using a word bank (on, in, to, with, by).
Cut out hat shapes with words at the bottom of the page and glue each next to the hat whose word rhymes with it (e.g. cat/sat, hen/pen).
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?).
Look at each picture pair and question, circle the correct answer (taller/shorter or heavier/lighter), then color the picture.
Cut and glue the matching parts of a book (author, title, illustrator) into the correct boxes.
Write the number that comes before (one less) and the number that comes after (one more) a given number in a line of penguins.
Read informational passages (e.g., The Winter Season, Hibernation, Animal Tracking) and answer comprehension/response questions; record and define new vocabulary words from the readings.
Cut and paste bird images with numbers into a 'less than 10' or 'greater than 10' category (sorted onto two trees).
Read each winter-themed sentence, find what is wrong with it, and write the corrected sentence.
Complete each number bond by filling in the missing part or whole number.
Practice sounding out and building consonant-vowel-consonant (CVC) words by identifying and tracing missing letter sounds.
Look at a given word, sound it out, look at a picture, then change the first letter to match the picture and write the new word (e.g. jug -> bug; also bat, pen, dig, top listed as starting words).
Practice identifying the correct initial consonant blend sound for a pictured word.
A multi-page phonics packet on word families across five short vowel sounds (A, E, I, O, U).
Practice recognizing rhyming word families by matching pictures to a target word ending.
Complete the 40-activity worksheet for each grade level (ELA, Math, Science, Social Studies, Art, and for Grade 6 also PE and Music), then check answers with the included answer keys.
Teach students the life cycle stages and basic facts of the Arctic fox.
Teach students the life cycle stages and basic facts of the snowy owl.