First Grade Math Centers and Literacy Centers – St. Patrick’s Day March

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First grade centers to keep your students engaged and learning during center time while you’re instructing your small groups in math and ELA. These literacy centers and math centers are perfect for your March lesson plans!

This bundle of fun St. Patrick’s Day, Weather, and Basketball center rotations provide first grade students with an opportunity to practice math skills and literacy skills through independent work.

There are 2 versions of each center activity. The center cards can be printed with color ink or there is a black ink-only option, as well. There are a variety of activities to meet the needs of your students throughout the school year.

MARCH FIRST GRADE CENTERS

LITERACY CENTERS

Eerie Endings – Students practice ending digraphs including sh, ck, dge, th, and ng.

Lucky Compound Words– Students match two words together to make a compound word.

Birthday Blends – Students practice beginning l, r and s blends.

Cloudy Commas– Students will read the sentences and write them using commas in dates and to separate single words in a series.

Dribbling Doubles– Students will use double consonants to complete the words.

Celebrating Bossy R- Students say the word and add or, er, or ar to complete the word.

Sentences for March – There are 4 weeks worth of sentence work! Students read the sentence and identify the correct picture. Then, they practice writing the sentence on their response sheet.

March Syllables – Students determine the number of syllables in each picture.

MATH CENTERS

Collecting Gold Coins– Students count the pictures to create and solve the addition equations within 20.

Lucky Measures- Students use the cubes to measure the St. Patrick’s Day objects.

Lucky Measures with a ruler- Students use the ruler to measure the objects by inches.

Making 60– Students will count the ten frames and add more clovers to make 60.

What is the temperature?- Students will count by 10s to read the temperature on each thermometer.

Lucky Word Problems– Students will read the word problems and solve the equations.

On the Clock– Students will say the time on the basketball hoop then draw the hands on the clocks to represent the time.

Rounding Up Lucky Horseshoes- Students will look at the number and count on the horseshoes to tell how much.

Towering Tally Marks– Students will count the tally marks and write the amount.

PREDICTABLE CENTER ACTIVITIES

These predictable first grade centers are ideal for any classroom because the activities do not have to be retaught month-after-month. The students can apply their new knowledge to the same activities, with different themes each month. 

Each first grade center has a recording sheet that can be used for tracking student progress during these independent activities.

These are purposely predictable 1st grade math and literacy center activities and they are EASY PREP! Plus, each activity is standards aligned. 

Included in each month of first grade learning centers:

• 8 first grade literacy centers (colored & black and white versions)
• 8 first grade math centers (colored & black and white versions)
• Recording sheet for each activity
• Each center has 9-12 task cards for extra practice 
• “I Can” cards to help build student independence

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⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ “Once you prep the pieces they are so easy to grab for a quick literacy or math center. I love that a lot of the activities stay the same but change to match themes. Once you have modeled an activity the students will know what to do because the process is the same. This is such a great resource and is totally worth the money.” – Katie C.