May Sensory Bins 1st Grade Spring Math and Literacy Centers First Grade

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First grade teachers, are you looking for a fun, hands-on option for your May math and literacy centers? These 1st Grade May Sensory Bin Centers are it! Your students will LOVE these meaningful May 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.

May Sensory Bin Math and Literacy Centers:

Picking Flowers: Students will pick a flower and color the matching word on their recording sheet. Skills included: CVCe words, r-controlled vowels, vowel teams, diphthongs

Sorting Sounds: Students will sort words according to their sounds. Skill: CVCe words, r-controlled vowels, vowel teams

Seashell Spelling: Students will pick a shell and write the matching word on their recording sheet. Skills included: CVCe words, r-controlled vowels, vowel teams, diphthongs

Sight Words: Students will pick a sight word flower. They can color, write, or use the word in a sentence. Skill: high frequency words

Making Numbers: Students will choose a tens butterfly and a butterfly 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 double-digit numbers

I Can Tell Time: Students will match the ice cream scoops to the cones. Skills included: telling time to the hour and half hour

Buzzing for Addition or Subtraction: Students will choose 2-3 bee numbers and add or subtract them. Skills included: addition within 10 or 20, adding 3 numbers, making a ten to add, number bonds, fact families, subtraction

Blooming for Subtraction: Students will choose 2 flower numbers and subtract them. Skills included: subtraction within 20

Make It True Equations: Students will choose a butterfly and decide which math symbol they need (+ or -) to make the equation true. Skills included: addition and subtraction, value of the equal sign