Animals Math and Literacy Centers and Emergent Reader Activities

This packet includes 4 sets of printable Math and Literacy Centers as well as Emergent Reader activities to keep your little ones busy with a whole month of fun and hands-on activities while learning all about Animals!

This is what you will find in each packet:

Wild Animals

• 16 Wild Animal Picture and Word cards.
• ‘Handa’s Surprise’ cut-and-paste emergent reader.
• ‘Roll and Write’ the numbers Math Center
• ‘Roll and Draw’ the shapes Math Center
• ‘Magnetic Letter Beginning Sound Match’ Literacy Center.
• 8 ‘Move like the Animals’ cards that can be used as a Circle Time activity.
• ‘Bingo’: 2 Sets of Bingo Cards.
• 2 ‘Graph the Animals’ sets. One graph goes up to 15 and the other one to 10.

Farm Animals

• Farm animal word cards with pictures.
• ‘Feed the Cow!’ Math Center.
• ‘Count and color the farm animals’ worksheet.
• ‘Who sank the boat?’ by Pamela Allen activities:

• Farm animal pictures to use as stick puppets for a re-tell activity.
• ‘How to fold an origami paper boat’ instructions.
• Sheep, pig, cow, donkey and mouse masks for a role-play activity.
• ‘My Farm Animal Book of Colors’ emergent reader and writing center activity.

Pets

• Add it, Build it, Write it Math Center.
• Rhyming Puzzles Writing Center.
• Bingo.
• ‘This is my …’ Emergent Reader.
• Complete the Patterns Cut-and-Paste Worksheets.
• Pets Race Board game (Literacy Center).
• Pet Movement and Sound Cards for Charades.

Aquatic Animals

• 4 ‘The Rainbow Fish’ worksheets as well as a link to a website where you will find free printable story props.
• 14 word cards with colorful pictures as well as 3 printable headings.
• ‘Feed the Shark’ Math Center.
• ‘Jellyfish Counting’ Math Center.
• ‘Roll, Say and Cover or Color’ Literacy Center.
• ‘Letter Fishing’ Literacy center.