These Christmas math and literacy center ideas will keep your students busy and engaged this holiday season. Use through your lesson rotations and your students will have some seasonal holiday fun throughout their Math and English lessons.
Inside the Math pack, you will find the following center ideas:
- Feed the reindeer carrots
- Christmas tree lights
- Number pegging
- Christmas puzzle match-ups
- Christmas number mats
Inside the Literacy pack, you will find the following center ideas:
- Blending sorts (feed Santa, Mrs Claus and the Elf the correct blends for 'sh', 'ch' and 'th')
- Make a Christmas word playdough mat (10 cards)
- Letter Tracing cards A-Z upper and lower case
- Christmas cookies sight word match up
- Gingerbread sequencing activity
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ACARA Alignment
Foundation Year English
Produce some lower case and upper case letters using learned letter formations (ACELY1653)
Read decodable and predictable texts using developing phrasing, fluency, contextual, semantic, grammatical and phonic knowledge and emerging text processing strategies, for example, prediction, monitoring meaning and re-reading (ACELY1659)
Recognise and know how to use simple grammatical morphemes to create word families (ACELA1455)
Use comprehension strategies to understand and discuss texts listened to, viewed or read independently (ACELY1650)
Foundation Year Maths
Establish understanding of the language and processes of counting by naming numbers in sequences, initially to and from 20, moving from any starting point (ACMNA001)
Connect number names, numerals and quantities, including zero, initially up to 10 and then beyond (ACMNA002)
Compare, order and make correspondences between collections, initially to 20, and explain reasoning (ACMNA289)