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

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

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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.

April Sensory Bin Math and Literacy Centers:

Feed the Rabbits: Students will pick a carrot and color the matching word on their recording sheet. Skills included: ending blends, vowel teams, diphthongs

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

Hopping for Words: Students will pick a lily pad and write the matching word on their recording sheet. Skills included: ending blends, r-controlled vowels, vowel teams

Past or Present Verbs: Students will pick a piece of litter and sort it by past or present verb tense. Skills included: past and present tense verbs.

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

Making Numbers: Students will choose a tens ladybug and a ladybug star 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 pick a clock and write the corresponding time. Skills included: telling time to the hour and half hour

Counting Coins: Students will draw coins to match the values on the raindrops. Skills included: counting coins

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

Buzzing for Subtraction: Students will choose a beehive and a bee. They will subtract the bee number from the beehive number. Skills included: subtraction within 20

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

Double-Digit Addition: Students will pick two earth numbers and add them together by drawing base ten blocks to solve. Skills included: double-digit addition with and without regrouping