Birthday Math and Literacy Centers for Preschool, Pre-K, and Kindergarten

Description

Birthday Math and Literacy Centers are loaded with fun, hands-on, birthday-themed activities to help your students build math and literacy concepts! Perfect for a birthday, all about me, back to school, or getting-to-know-you theme. It now includes two fine motor centers, one writing center, six literacy centers, and nine math centers.

The literacy skills covered are letter identification, beginning/initial sounds, letter formation, rhyme, vocabulary words, card making, and writing/journaling.

Math skills covered are one-to-one correspondence, counting, addition, patterns, graphing and data collection, 2D shapes, ten frames, sorting, and number identification. Each activity has a page of teacher tips to help you create the activity easily and ensure it will go smoothly. You can use these activities as arrival activities, center activities, small group instruction, and share during circle. These birthday activities are designed for preschool, pre-k, or kindergarten.

Included (updated August 2024):

• Labels for organization
• Birthday Balloon Prewriting Types of Lines Fine Motor Activity 
• Cupcake Cutting Craftivity Fine Motor Activity
• 24 Birthday Word Vocabulary Cards (uppercase set & lowercase set)
• Birthday Writing/Journal Paper (with lines and without)
• Birthday Card Making Station (Phrase Strips & What a Card Needs Poster)
• Party Animal Alphabet Letter Trace Cards with worksheet
• Present Sound Match (letters P, R, S, D, H, B) with worksheet
• Cupcake Letter Match (lowercase with uppercase letters or uppercase with uppercase) with worksheets
• Birthday Letter Dot It (uppercase and lowercase options)
• Cake Rhyme Puzzles with worksheet
• Cupcake Colors Emergent Reader: I want a ____ cupcake.
• Cupcake Candles Roll and Count or Add Game with worksheets
• Present Number Match 1-20 with worksheets
• Class Book: How Many Candles on the Cake
• Age Graphs: class graph and student graphs
• Candle Patterns (AB, ABC, AAB) with worksheet
• Birthday Cake 2D Shape Sort with worksheet
• Birthday Number Dot It Games (count, add, +1, -1)
• Cupcake Play Dough Counting Mats 1-20
• Birthday Ten Frame Number Mats 1-20

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