Math and Literacy Centers for Fall

Fall has set in and the leaves are starting to change! Have you ever done a Leaf Investigation with your students? It's super easy with this leaf investigation recording sheet and the kids really enjoy it. 

Here are some other activities to add during your leaf study. Leaf Smash is a fun one for working on writing numbers and ten frames to 20. 

Students will love feeding the leaf while practicing counting to 20. Add in some tweezers or tongs for some fine motor practice. 

This Counting Leaves activity packs a punch! Students get practice with fine motor, counting, writing, spelling, and ten frames All-n-One!

Work on addition with these fun fall Spinner Addition Mats! Includes 7 fun themes to choose from, including a leaf for your leaf study!

These Addition Mats are a fun way to work on writing and solving addition facts using a ten frame. 

More ten frame addition if you prefer task cards rather than mats and includes a recording sheet.

If you're a mini eraser hoarder like me lol, this is a Dollar Deal in my shop!

Work on number fluency with this fun Mystery Numbers Activity that puts a fun twist on missing numbers!

Getting started on word problems? These Word Problem Mats are a great way to introduce word problems and another excuse to use those mini erasers {insert wink, lol}!

Your students will have a blast helping the squirrel gather acorns with this one! Just add the squirrel to a magnetic wand and a small paperclip to the corner of each sight word to make them magnetic. Students pick up the sight words with the magnetic squirrel, read them, write them, and then discard them into the acorn. Huge crowd pleaser!

The magnetic squirrel sight word activity was such a crowd pleaser that I also made this one!

And Scarecrow numbers for number practice! 

Feed the Squirrel is another fun one students love for counting practice. These "feed the" activities are just so engaging and motivating for the students.

I'm not sure which they like best...the "feed the" activities or these playdoh smash games! But this Fall Smash is another highly engaging activity that's perfect for practicing beginning sounds and ALL of the picture cards are FALL Themed!

Have students trace their hand to make the tree trunk and tear construction paper to make the leaves. Grab the FREE writing prompt here.

If you're planning to read "There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed Some Leaves," I have a StoryMat for that!

Do a Pumpkin Investigation with this fun investigation recording sheet! Students can also survey their classmates, label the parts of a pumpkin, make homemade pumpkin pie, and learn about the pumpkin life cycle with the other activities included.

Work on number order with Pumpkin Mixup!

Grab this fun Roll and Cover Activity here.

Your students will love "baking" up sight words with these fun Pumpkin Cookies!

Practice counting on from a given number with this fun Pumpkin Smash Game!

Who doesn't love a "snacktivity!?" Pull out some pumpkin seeds or make your own from your pumpkin investigation and do some math. Afterwards students can eat them. Grab this freebie here.

Also, be sure to check out my NEW Math and Literacy Puzzles line! I'm really excited about these and I'm adding new ones all the time! This is the CVC one, but there's also beginning sounds, letters, addition, and subtraction sets!

Lastly, don't forget next week is Fire Prevention Week! You can grab this reader here.

Math and Literacy Centers

Now that everyone is back to school and getting settled in, it's time to start those literacy and math centers. This post is jam packed with ideas and resources to get you started! You can find the "Counting Apple Seeds Activity" above here. 

Students LOVE these feeding activities! It's crazy how adding in just this one little component can increase engagement through the roof! This one is versatile and can be used for matching letters and/or beginning sounds. Find it here.

Students can't get enough of these two! They love feeding bananas to the monkey and peanuts to the elephant while practicing counting and 1:1 correspondence. 

They'll also love feeding gas to the car while practicing their sight words with this one that includes all of Fry's first 100 sight words. Or you may prefer this one that focuses on just the first 25 sight words. 

Students love catching fireflies with the magnetic net while practicing reading and writing sight words. Just add a paperclip to each card to make it magnetic. :)

Got to keep them motivated and engaged and these fun letter cookies do the trick every time! You might be saying, "Oh too much prep!" That's what I always think when I see circles...EEEK! But friends, that's why these circle cookies are all designed to be easily cut with a 2" circle punch. Wahlah! Work smarter, not harder!

Practice letter or sound matching with these mats you can find here. 

These school cuties are always fun and enticing for littles. And if you really like these check out the matching alphabet posters here.

You most likely already have your alphabet posters up, but you can print these four to a page and use them as flashcards in one of your literacy centers.

If you love all the things with googly eyes like me, you might also like these shape cuties.

The only thing I think students love more than the "FEED ME" activities are these "Pop It Smash Games." Students love anything with Playdoh so these are always a crowd pleaser. You can find all of the POP IT games here.

This SHAPE SMASH is also a fun one that uses playdoh. 

If your students are working on word building and CVC words, these word building mats make an excellent literacy center and all of the letters are stored right on the mat, so no letter tiles to pull out or keep track of. Here's a peek on the inside.

Gumball Mixup and Pencil Mixup are a couple more fun ones that put a fun twist on building CVC words. 

This is a fun one to transition your students from beginning sounds to building CVC words. You can find it here.

Before and After and Number Order are also center favorites. 

Grab this counting freebie here.

Students always perk up when there's Tic Tac Toe involved and these Tic Tac Toe games include 8 different literacy centers and phonics games.

These Doubles Posters are a must have in your math centers when you begin to introduce doubles.

Now for you...the teacher! One of the reasons we do centers is to give us a chance to work with students in small groups, 1:1, or to assess students. So these are for you!

You can get a closer inside look at the assessment binder here.

These phonics drills are quick and easy to administer and review each day. Students progress from reading sounds to words to reading the sounds and words in sentences. You can find both of these fluency drills here.

And no year is complete without "The Ultimate Teacher Word Choice" binder! This will be your best friend when customizing word lists or choosing the just right words and/or phrases when working with your students.