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Are you looking for an easy way to keep students engaged in literacy and math practice during the month of February? Add some seasonal learning activities to your centers rotations! In this post, I’m going to share some of my favorite kindergarten centers for February that combine learning with fun.
There are so many important literacy skills that students can review by this point in the school year. These engaging centers can help you combine some of the fun February holidays with literacy practice. These activities cover a wide range of events, like Groundhog Day, Valentine’s Day, Presidents Day, and Dental Health Month. Here are some of the skills that students can practice with these fun centers:
Students can practice identifying sounds in all positions of words with engaging activities. For example, in this penguin fishing activity, students can match pictures to letters based on the beginning sound they hear.
Other center activities can help them identify beginning and ending sounds to help them complete words.
Students are also able to practice identifying medial sounds by listening for the vowel sound in the middle of each word.
If your students could use more practice with digraphs, they’ll love this fun center activity! They will use a spinner to choose a digraph, and then color a picture with that digraph sound.
As students become more comfortable with word families, it will be easier for them to see word chunks as they read. This Valentine-themed center encourages students to sort pictures by word family and then write the words on their recording sheets.
Could your students use practice with reading CVC words? You can use a seasonal activity like this center to help students match pictures to the correct word.
It’s also helpful to use center activities to help students get more opportunities to practice reading sight words.
They can use a variety of seasonal word-building activities to help them identify sight words with more fluency.
Students can combine their knowledge of phonics and sight words to create sentences with seasonal vocabulary. They can use clues on the cards such as punctuation and capitalization to help them put the word cards in order.
These seasonal activities are also perfect for math review! Students can get a lot of repetition and practice with these important skills by using a wide variety of seasonal centers for February. Here are some examples of the math skills that students can practice during centers time:
Give your students some extra practice with one-to-one correspondence with a fun Valentine-themed center. Students will count the correct number of dog bones to match the Valentine balloon the dog is holding.
If your students are ready to practice counting by 5s and 10s, centers time is a great time for this review! Students can use self-correcting puzzles to help them practice counting by 5s and 10s.
This groundhog-themed activity is also great for counting practice in February!
As students become more confident with counting, they can also use these skills to help them compare numbers.
These fun centers give students the chance to count and compare a variety of numbers.
This groundhog-themed activity is a great way for students to practice putting numbers in numerical order. Each task card has four numbers out of order and students will put snowflakes in the correct sequence.
This counting activity is another way for students to practice numerical order. They will identify a number and then identify the numbers that go before and after.
For some seasonal pattern practice, students can use colorful hearts to create a variety of different pattern types. After putting the heart cards in order, they can color the completed patterns on the recording sheet.
If your students could use more graphing practice, you can make it a little more engaging by adding a touch of Valentine’s Day fun! Students will sort Valentine-themed pictures and then color in the graph based on the data.
It’s always helpful to give students as much practice as possible with tricky teen numbers! Fun seasonal activities will help keep them engaged in teen number practice.
Whether it’s counting tally marks on a Valentine postcard or matching teen numbers to the corresponding base ten blocks, a bit of holiday fun can bring some extra engagement to teen number review.
Finally, you can include engaging addition and subtraction practice in your centers rotation.
Students can complete a mystery picture by matching equations to the correct sums on the puzzle mat. You can also celebrate Dental Health Month with this fun tooth fairy addition activity. Students can use the tooth fairy coins to help them model and solve each addition equation.
For subtraction practice, students can use a number line to help them catch love bugs in this activity!
This game is also a fun way to add mixed review to centers time! Students will try to remove all of the clothes pins from the number line as they choose addition and subtraction task cards. Once they have solved the equation, they will remove the clothespin from that spot on the number line.
All of the activities in this post (and more!) are included in one easy-to-download set of kindergarten centers for February. This set of centers includes 36 math and literacy activities that will bring seasonal engagement to your classroom.
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These alphabet books will have students dive deep into learning about each letter of the alphabet while eager to see what activity they get to complete next!
