Kindergarten Centers for the Year Low Prep Math Centers and Literacy Centers

Bring ease to your centers this year! Incorporate high engagement, low prep math and literacy centers that your students will love and enjoy. Hands-on learning is essential for Kindergarten and PreK students. These engaging low prep centers help you to incorporate math and literacy skills in your classroom, without spending hours prepping every week!

These math and literacy centers include low prep activities that your students won’t want to miss! They can take them back to their seats and work on independently. These engaging tasks are great for your centers, enrichment, RTI, literacy block, math block, and guided reading. 

What’s Included:

Over 80 math and literacy centers!

Each center includes an I Can card that can be attached to each center box.

⭐️ Back to School Centers:

• Counting crayons 1-10
• 2D shapes
• Ten frames
• One-to-one correspondence
• Uppercase and lowercase letter formation
• Letter tracing
• Uppercase and lowercase letter match
• Beginning sounds

⭐️ September Centers:

• Color sort
• Counting apples 1-10
• Number identification
• Ten frames
• Rhyming practice
• Alphabet letter match
• Alphabet practice- beginning sounds
• Sight words (editable page included)

⭐️ October Centers:

• 1:1 correspondence counting to 10
• 2D shapes
• Spin & write ten frames
• Sequencing numbers within 10
• Uppercase and lowercase letter writing
• Letter tracing
• Uppercase and lowercase letter match
• Beginning sounds

⭐️ November Centers:

• 1:1 correspondence counting to 12
• Ten frames to 20
• Comparing more and less
• Adding to make a 5
• Beginning sounds
• CVC words
• Sight words
• Short a word families

⭐️ December Centers:

• Counting on
• 1:1 correspondence
• Make a ten
• Counting to ten
• Ending sounds
• CVC words
• Sight words
• Short e word families

⭐️ January Centers:

• Teen numbers
• Addition to 10
• Number sequencing- before and after
• Subitizing numbers to 10 and identifying more or less
• Beginning and ending sounds
• Middles sounds
• Reading words by word families
• Sight word simple sentences

⭐️ February Centers:

• Make a ten
• Counting teen numbers
• Addition to 10
• Subtraction from 10
• Beginning sounds
• Ending sounds
• Reading CVC words
• Writing CVC words

⭐️ March Centers:

• Decomposing numbers to 10
• Non-standard measurement
• Subtraction using ten frames
• Roll and cover addition to 12
• Building CVC words
• Reading CVC words
• Short vowel word families sort
• Sight word simple sentences

⭐️ April Centers:

• Number sequencing- before and after
• Counting and comparing numbers to 10
• Missing addends to 10
• Addition with a number line
• Beginning blends
• Building CVC words
• Reading sight word sentences
• Building sight word simple sentences

⭐️ End of the Year Centers:

• Teen numbers
• Addition to 10
• Decomposing numbers to 10
• Subtraction practice
• Reading CVC words
• Reading sentences
• Beginning blends
• Manipulating sounds to make new words

Easy Prep and Organization!

• Each center includes an I Can card that can be attached to each center box for easy independent practice.
• The cards fit in the standard 5x7 photo case making it easy for the organization. Laminate the cards for durability and easy cleaning.

Suggested manipulatives to use with the low prep centers:

• Magnetic letters
• Mini erasers
• Dry erase markers
• Clothespins
• Playdough
• Colored pompoms
• Unifix or counting cubes
• Transparent spinners
• Dice
• Mini legos
• Magnetic bingo wands and chips
• Velcro dots

Why teachers love these!

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ "LOVING this resource so far! After you prep the materials it is so quick and easy to prep for class. I just grab the task boxes that I need and set them on a tray with any other resources for centres. So great!! The kids also really enjoy them. 100% recommend!"- Jessica C.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ "This is a wonderful resource that's easy to prep for the students to use. Students enjoy these hands on activities and I enjoy that it has activities that span the school year." -Brighid H.

♥ Find even more engaging activities you can use all year long in the Monthly Activities Year Long Mega Bundle! ♥