End of Year Activities

Cut and Paste End of Year-themed Activities covering every single Common Core Reading and Math Standard for Kindergarten!

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THIS PACK INCLUDES 57 CUT AND PASTE WORKSHEETS

24 Math Cut and Paste Activities

14 Reading Foundational Skills Cut and Paste Activities

10 Reading Informational Text Cut and Paste Activities

9 Reading Literature Cut and Paste Activities

14 Read-Aloud Texts are also included.

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READING INFORMATIONAL TEXT - CUT AND PASTE ACTIVITIES:

Key Details in a Text

Cut and Paste the 5 senses by words describing blueberries (in response to hearing a text about blueberries read aloud): this activity helps kids learn to ask and answer questions about key details in a text (optionally aligns with CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.K.1)

Main Topic + Key Details in a Text

Cut and Paste Summer months and holidays in the appropriate categories (in response to hearing a text about Summer read aloud): this activity helps kids learn to identify main topic and retell key details of a text (optionally aligns with CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.K.2)

Connect Ideas in a Text

Cut and Paste pictures of the housefly life cycle (in response to hearing a text about the housefly life cycle read aloud): this activity helps kids learn to describe the connection between 2 ideas in a text (optionally aligns with CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.K.3)

Define Unknown Words in a Text

Cut and Paste letters in the beginning of words labeling beach supplies (in response to hearing a text about packing for the beach read aloud): this activity helps kids learn to ask and answer questions about unknown words in a text (optionally aligns with CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.K.4)

Identify Parts of a Book

Cut and Paste labels by Summer -themed books that identify their major parts: this activity helps kids learn to identify the front cover, back cover, and title page of a book (optionally aligns with CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.K.5)

Define the Roles of Authors and Illustrators

Cut and Paste pictures of tools that an author and an illustrator might use while working on a text: this activity helps kids learn to define the role of the author and illustrator in presenting the ideas or information in a text (optionally aligns with CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.K.6)

Describe Illustrations in a Text

Cut and Paste End of Year objects by statements describing them: this activity helps kids learn to describe the relationship between illustrations and the text (optionally aligns with CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.K.7)

Identify Support in a Text

Cut and Paste Summer outdoor activities that showcase why Summer is a great season to be outside (in response to hearing a text about Summer activities read aloud): this activity helps kids learn to identify the reasons an author gives to support points in a text (optionally aligns with CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.K.8)

Compare Two Texts

Cut and Paste facts that are similar and different about beaches and pools (in response to hearing two texts about beaches and pools read aloud): this activity helps kids learn to identify basic similarities and differences between two texts on the same topic (optionally aligns with CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.K.9)

Read Texts with Purpose & Understanding

Cut and Paste the names of sports (in response to hearing a text about sports read aloud): this activity helps kids learn to actively engage in group reading activities with purpose and understanding (optionally aligns with CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.K.10)

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READING LITERATURE ACTIVITIES - CUT AND PASTE ACTIVITIES:

Key Details in a Story

Cut and Paste End of Year objects by pictures of the 5 senses (in response to hearing an End of Year story read aloud): this activity helps kids learn to ask and answer questions about key details in a text. (optionally aligns with CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.K.1)

Retell Stories

Cut and Paste illustrations that showcase the beginning, middle, and end of a story about starfish (in response to hearing the story read aloud): this activity helps kids learn to retell familiar stories, including key details. (optionally aligns with CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.K.2)

Identify Setting and Characters

Cut and Paste setting and character information (in response to hearing a story about a crab who lived in a pool read aloud): this activity helps kids learn to identify characters, settings, and major events in a story. (optionally aligns with CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.K.3)

Define Unknown Words in a Story

Cut and Paste the first letters into words labeling Summer pictures (in response to hearing a story about playing outside in Summer read aloud): this activity helps kids learn to ask and answer questions about unknown words in a text. (optionally aligns with CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.K.4)

Identify Types of Texts

Cut and Paste different types of Summer -themed texts into the appropriate categories: this activity helps kids learn to recognize common types of texts (e.g., storybooks, poems, and recipes). (optionally aligns with CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.K.5)

Name the Author and Illustrator

Cut and Paste author and illustrator labels by images showcasing information from real Summer -themed books: this activity helps kids learn to name the author and illustrator of a story. (optionally aligns with CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.K.6)

Describe Illustrations in a Story

Cut and Paste the first letters into words labeling illustrations that depict what a narrator did during an End of Year class party (in response to hearing a story read aloud): this activity helps kids learn to describe the relationship between illustrations and the story in which they appear (e.g., what moment in a story an illustration depicts). (optionally aligns with CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.K.7)

Compare Characters' Experiences

Cut and Paste images into a Venn diagram shaped like turtles (in response to hearing a story about two turtles read aloud): this activity helps kids learn to compare and contrast the adventures and experiences of characters in familiar stories. (optionally aligns with CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.K.9)

Read Stories with Purpose & Understanding

Cut and Paste camping and sports in the appropriate category (in response to hearing a story about camping and sports equipment read aloud): this activity helps kids learn to actively engage in group reading activities with purpose and understanding. (optionally aligns with CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.K.10)

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READING FOUNDATIONAL SKILLS - CUT AND PASTE ACTIVITIES:

Read Left to Right, Top to Bottom

Cut and Paste words into the correct sequence in a sentence about the sun: this activity helps kids learn to follow words from left to right, top to bottom, and page by page. (optionally aligns with CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.K.1.A)

Recognize Words are Represented by Letters

Cut and Paste letters in the first position of words to label End of Year objects: this activity helps kids learn to recognize that spoken words are represented in written language by specific sequences of letters. (optionally aligns with CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.K.1.B)

Separate Words with Spaces

Cut and Paste End of Year -themed object words and blank spaces into sentences that showcase finger spacing: this activity helps kids learn to understand that words are separated by spaces in print. (optionally aligns with CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.K.1.C)

Recognize Upper- and Lowercase Letters

Cut and Paste lowercase letters displayed on suns alongside their matching uppercase letters: this activity helps kids learn to recognize and name all upper- and lowercase letters of the alphabet. (optionally aligns with CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.K.1.D)

Recognize Rhyming Words

Cut and Paste End of Year -themed object words that rhyme: this activity helps kids learn to recognize and produce rhyming words. (optionally aligns with CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.K.2A)

Count Syllables in Words

Cut and Paste the number of syllables clapped after saying End of Year -themed object words: this activity helps kids learn to count, pronounce, blend, and segment syllables in spoken words. (optionally aligns with CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.K.2B)

Segment Sounds in Single-Syllable Words

Cut and Paste letters into single-syllable words labeling End of Year objects: this activity helps kids learn to blend and segment onsets and rimes of single-syllable spoken words. (optionally aligns with CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.K.2C)

Pronounce CVC Words

Cut and Paste letters into CVC words labeling End of Year objects: this activity helps kids learn to isolate and pronounce the initial, medial vowel, and final sounds (phonemes) in three-phoneme (consonant-vowel-consonant, or CVC) words. (optionally aligns with CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.K.2D)

Substitute Sounds to Make New Words

Cut and Paste letters into similar single syllable words that label End of Year objects: this activity helps kids learn to add or substitute individual sounds (phonemes) in simple, one-syllable words to make new words. (optionally aligns with CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.K.2E)

Recognize Consonant Sounds

Cut and Paste End of Year objects into the correct consonant group: this activity helps kids learn to demonstrate basic knowledge of one-to-one letter-sound correspondences by producing the primary sound or many of the most frequent sounds for each consonant. (optionally aligns with CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.K.3.A)

Recognize Vowel Sounds

Cut and Paste vowels into words labeling End of Year objects: this activity helps kids learn to associate the long and short sounds with the common spellings (graphemes) for the five major vowels. (optionally aligns with CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.K.3.B)

Read Sight Words

Cut and Paste sight words into sentences about the End of Year: this activity helps kids learn to read common high-frequency words by sight. (optionally aligns with CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.K.3.C)

Distinguish Between Similar Sounds

Cut and Paste letters into similar words labeling End of Year objects: this activity helps kids learn to distinguish between similarly spelled words by identifying the sounds of the letters that differ. (optionally aligns with CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.K.3.D)

Read with Purpose & Understanding

Cut and Paste words into sentences about End of Year and then read them aloud: this activity helps kids learn to read emergent-reader texts with purpose and understanding. (optionally aligns with CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.K.4)

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MATH - COUNTING & CARDINALITY - CUT AND PASTE ACTIVITIES:

Count by Ones

Cut and Paste numbers by different amounts of sun rays: this activity helps kids learn to count to 100 by ones and by tens. (optionally aligns with CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.K.CC.A.1)

Count Forward Within a Number Sequence

Cut and Paste numbers in the correct sequence onto End of Year objects: this activity helps kids learn to count forward beginning from a given number within the known sequence (instead of having to begin at 1). (optionally aligns with CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.K.CC.A.2)

Represent a Number of Objects with Numerals

Cut and Paste numbers representing different numbers of Summer fruits: this activity helps kids learn to represent a number of objects with a written numeral 0-20. (optionally aligns with CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.K.CC.A.3)

Use Number Names

Cut and Paste number words labeling fish bubbles: this activity helps kids learn to when counting objects, say the number names in the standard order, pairing each object with one and only one number name and each number name with one and only one object. (optionally aligns with CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.K.CC.B.4.A)

Count Object in Different Arrangements

Cut and Paste numbers that represent the amount of different groupings of End of Year objects: this activity helps kids learn to understand that the last number name said tells the number of objects counted, and that the number of objects is the same regardless of their arrangement or the order in which they were counted. (optionally aligns with CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.K.CC.B.4.B)

Understand that Each Number is 1 Larger

Cut and Paste numbers and pictures at the end of sequences featuring different amounts of End of Year objects: this activity helps kids learn to understand that each successive number name refers to a quantity that is one larger.

(optionally aligns with CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.K.CC.B.4.C)

Answer "How Many?"

Cut and Paste numbers to label the amount of different End of Year objects: this activity helps kids learn to count to answer "how many?" questions about as many as 20 things arranged in a line, a rectangular array, or a circle, or as many as 10 things in a scattered configuration; given a number from 1-20, count out that many objects. (optionally aligns with CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.K.CC.B.5)

Compare the Number of Objects

Cut and Paste hungry ants to face the group containing the most berries or grapes: this activity helps kids learn to identify whether the number of objects in one group is greater than, less than, or equal to the number of objects in another group. (optionally aligns with CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.K.CC.C.6)

Compare Two Numbers

Cut and Paste hungry ants to face the picnic food that is larger: this activity helps kids learn to compare two numbers between 1 and 10 presented as written numerals. (optionally aligns with CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.K.CC.C.7)

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MATH - OPERATIONS & ALGEBRAIC THINKING - CUT AND PASTE ACTIVITIES:

Add Objects

Cut and Paste answers to addition problems represented by palm trees: this activity helps kids learn to represent addition and subtraction with drawings. (optionally aligns with CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.K.OA.A.1)

Solve Word Problems

Cut and Paste numbers into addition word problems featuring End of Year objects: this activity helps kids learn to solve addition and subtraction word problems, and add and subtract within 10, e.g., by using objects or drawings to represent the problem. (optionally aligns with CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.K.OA.A.2)

Decompose Numbers in Two Ways

Cut and Paste numbers into addition problems that feature End of Year objects and demonstrate that two different number pairs can add up to the same number: this activity helps kids learn to decompose numbers less than or equal to 10 into pairs in more than one way, e.g., by using objects or drawings, and record each decomposition by a drawing or equation (e.g., 5 = 2 + 3 and 5 = 4 + 1). (optionally aligns with CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.K.OA.A.3)

Find Numbers that Add Up to 10

Cut and Paste numbers into equations featuring End of Year illustrations that all add up to 10: this activity helps kids learn to find the number that makes 10 when added to the given number, e.g., by using objects or drawings, and record the answer with a drawing or equation. (optionally aligns with CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.K.OA.A.4)

Add Fluently Within 5

Cut and Paste numbers into addition problems with End of Year illustrations: this activity helps kids learn to fluently add and subtract within 5. (optionally aligns with CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.K.OA.A.5)

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MATH - NUMBER & OPERATIONS IN BASE TEN - CUT AND PASTE ACTIVITY:

Compose Numbers 11 to 19

Cut and Paste numbers to label the total amount of popsicles in a picture that displays 10 popsicles in each box, plus some individual popsicles: this activity helps kids learn to compose and decompose numbers from 11 to 19 into ten ones and some further ones, e.g., by using objects or drawings, and record each composition or decomposition by a drawing or equation (such as 18 = 10 + 8); understanding that these numbers are composed of ten ones and one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, or nine ones. (optionally aligns with CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.K.NBT.A.1)

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MATH - MEASUREMENT & DATA - CUT AND PASTE ACTIVITIES:

Measure the Width of Objects

Cut and Paste the number of ants wide different picnic foods are: this activity helps kids learn to describe measurable attributes of objects, such as length or weight. (optionally aligns with CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.K.MD.A.1)

Compare Sizes of Objects

Cut and Paste illustrated descriptions by End of Year objects that are two different sizes: this activity helps kids learn to directly compare two objects with a measurable attribute in common, to see which object has "more of"/"less of" the attribute, and describe the difference. For example, directly compare the heights of two children and describe one child as taller/shorter. (optionally aligns with CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.K.MD.A.2)

Classify Objects into Categories

Cut and Paste images of suns into different categories based on the number of rays each sun has: this activity helps kids learn to classify objects into given categories; count the numbers of objects in each category and sort the categories by count. (optionally aligns with CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.K.MD.B.3)

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MATH - GEOMETRY - CUT AND PASTE ACTIVITIES:

Describe Objects with Shape Names

Cut and Paste names of shapes by different End of Year objects: this activity helps kids learn to describe objects in the environment using names of shapes. (optionally aligns with CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.K.G.A.1)

Name the Shapes

Cut and Paste shapes by their names in order to put sprinkles on ice cream: this activity helps kids learn to correctly name shapes regardless of their orientations or overall size. (optionally aligns with CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.K.G.A.2)

Identify 2- and 3-Dimensional Shapes

Cut and Paste End of Year-themed objects and plain two-dimensional shapes into either a "3-D" or "2-D" category: this activity helps kids learn to identify shapes as two-dimensional (lying in a plane, "flat") or three-dimensional ("solid"). (optionally aligns with CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.K.G.A.3)

Compare Shapes

Cut and Paste descriptions by two different shapes making up an ice cream cone: this activity helps kids learn to analyze and compare two- and three-dimensional shapes, in different sizes and orientations, using informal language to describe their similarities, differences, parts (e.g., number of sides). (optionally aligns with CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.K.G.B.4)

Model Shapes from Components

Cut and Paste names of shapes to describe different formations of Summer picnic foods: this activity helps kids learn to model shapes in the world by building shapes from components (e.g., sticks and clay balls) and drawing shapes. (optionally aligns with CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.K.G.B.5)

Compose Shapes to Form Larger Shapes

Cut and Paste shapes in order to build an ice cream truck: this activity helps kids learn to compose simple shapes to form larger shapes. (optionally aligns with CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.K.G.B.6)

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