Beep! Boop! Bop! Your learners will go nuts a bolt this Build a Robot Playdough Activity for preschool, pre-k, and kindergarten. Students will choose a learning center task card and create a robot by following the “recipe”.
This resource allows children to practice the following skills:
– Counting
– One-to-one correspondence
– Number recognition
– Number quantity
– Set recognition
– Spatial relations
– More/less/same concept
– Language
– Social emotional
– Fine motor
– Following directions
Print these activity cards out on cardstock. For heavy use, lamination is recommended. Supply students with playdough, nuts, bolts, washers, paperclips, googly eyes, craft sticks, buttons, beads, and cut up pieces of fuzzy sticks/pipe cleaners.
Facilitate conversation during this activity; have your students to describe their creations. Ask them which items they used more/less/same of.
Make a splash with this Summer Math and Literacy pack. It contains 13 worksheets and 9 learning center activities that strengthen the following skills:
– Counting
– One-to-one correspondence
– Number quantity
– Number recognition
– Classification
– Number order
– Ordinal numbers
– Subitizing/set recognition
– Addition
– Measurement
– Patterning
– Shape recognition
– Seriation
– Upper and lowercase letter recognition
– Beginning sound recognition
– Language/dictation
– Writing
– Association
– Visual discrimination
– Visual memory
– Phonological awareness
– Positional concepts
– Story sequencing
– Fine motor
– Following directions
Please note that the center activities in this packet are designed to be printed (on cardstock) and laminated, and to be used and enjoyed for many years to come.
SUMMER SET RECOGNITION CLIP STRIPS (COLOR 12/B&W 12)
Provide clothespins or some other small manipulative to use as markers. Learner will identify each number and mark its corresponding die. Younger students may need to count the dots. Older learners should be practicing their set recognition skills.
WATERMELON NUMBER QUANTITY TASK CARDS (COLOR 10/B&W 10)
Supply students with raisins or black or brown playdough. Learners will place a numbered group of seeds on its corresponding watermelon wedge. Encourage younger children to use one-to-one correspondence while counting. Older children can use this activity to practice set recognition.
SUMMER LET’S MAKE A PATTERN TASK CARDS (COLOR 4/B&W 4) AND ITEM CARDS (COLOR 42/B&W 42)
Using the summer item cards, learners will work to construct the featured pattern on each cards. Encourage your students to describe each pattern.
Encourage children to say each picture name and clap and count each word part. They will then use a clothespin to clip the correct number of syllables.
Provide clothespins, mini erasers or some other manipulative for children to use as markers. Working with a small group, read the task cards and prompt children to mark the correct picture according to the featured positional word.
Learners will say the name of the featured items on the task cards. They will then sort through the letter cards, finding their beginning sound partners and placing them on the appropriate spaces. For your convenience, both upper and lowercase letters are provided. Magnetic letters or dry erase markers may also be used.
WATERMELON ALPHABET MATCH UP PUZZLES (COLOR A-Z/26/B&W A-Z/26)
Cut these cards in half and prompt young learners match the upper and lowercase letters.
SUMMER TREATS MEMORY GAME CARDS (COLOR 24)
Mix the cards up and place them in rows, face down. Prompt students to turn over any two cards. If they match, they keep the pair and go again. If the pictures don’t match, the cards are turned back over. It is then the next player’s turn. Play until all the matches have been made. The person with the most pairs wins!
WORKSHEETS (B&W 13)
With these 13 worksheets, learners will practice rhyming, association, dictation and writing, number order, number formation, addition, classification, and so much more!
Flutter into spring with this Make a Butterfly Playdough Activityfor preschool, pre-k, and kindergarten. Students will choose a learning center task card and make a butterfly by following the “recipe”.
This resource allows children to practice the following skills:
– Counting
– One-to-one correspondence
– Number recognition
– Number quantity
– Set recognition
– Spatial relations
– Symmetry
– More/less/same concept
– Language
– Social emotional
– Fine motor
– Following directions
Print these activity cards out on cardstock. For heavy use, lamination is recommended. Supply students with playdough, butterfly cookie cutters and/or small heart cookie cutters (these can be used to make the wings), googly eyes, craft sticks, pom poms, acrylic jewels and/or sequins, buttons, beads, pieces of drinking straws, and cut up pieces of fuzzy sticks/pipe cleaners.
Facilitate conversation during this activity; have your students to describe their creations. Ask them which items they used more/less/same of, and help them understand the concept of symmetry.
We're Gigi and Zoey. We teach a two-year program (preschool and pre-k), and we're passionate about Early Childhood Education and the philosophy that children learn through play. Our goal is to prepare children for kindergarten while making learning fun.
We hope that our resources inspire you, and that you will share them with your little ones.
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