January Sensory Bins 1st Grade Winter Math and Literacy Centers First Grade

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First grade teachers, are you looking for a fun, hands-on option for your January math and literacy centers? These 1st Grade January Sensory Bin Centers are it! Your students will LOVE these meaningful winter math and literacy centers (and you’ll love how easy they are to use).

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How do these first grade sensory bin centers work? Just print the cards on sturdy cardstock or laminate, cut out, and add to a sensory bin. Students will pull a card and record the answer on their recording sheet.

Wondering how to best set up your sensory bin? Check out this blog post –> How to Set Up Your Sensory Bin Centers

Many sensory bins contain multiple skills or recording sheets to offer options for differentiation! Please see the preview to see what skills each bin will cover.

January Sensory Bin Math and Literacy Centers:

Feed the Polar Bear Sounds: Students will pick a word to feed the polar bear and color the matching picture on their recording sheet. Skills included: digraphs, beginning blends, CVCe words

CVC or CVCe Words: Students will choose a CVC or CVCe word picture in a snow globe and match it to its base. Skill: CVC and CVCe words

Mitten Sounds: Students will pick a mitten and color the matching word on their recording sheet. Skills included: beginning blends, CVCe words, glued sounds ng and nk

Writing Words: Students will pick a mug and write the matching word on their recording sheet. Then, they will use a word in a sentence. Skills included: digraphs, beginning blends, CVCe words

Sight Words: Students will pick a sight word penguin and match it to the ice. They can color, write, or use the word in a sentence. Skill: high frequency words

Making Numbers: Students will choose a tens fish and a ones fish to create a two-digit number. They will use that number on their recording sheet. Skills included: place value, expanded form, comparing numbers, counting on

Adding Snowflakes: Students will choose 2-3 snowflake numbers and add them together. Skills included: addition within 10 or 20, adding 3 numbers, making a ten to add, number bonds, fact families

Snowball Fractions: Students will pull a snowball. They will either divide the shape on their paper to match the divided shape on the snowball, or color in parts of a shape to match the fraction. Skills included: dividing shapes, fractions

Snow Globe Subtraction: Students will solve the subtraction problems and match the snow globes to their bases. Skills included: subtraction within 12, subtraction within 20.