Four seasons math and literacy activities for little learners, all in one pack! This Four Seasons Math & Literacy Pack has over 50 pages of hands-on centers that help preschoolers name, compare and sort spring, summer, fall and winter.

The pack is created with little learners in mind, so there are lots of colorful pictures and just a few familiar words. Each activity includes a teacher instruction and suggestion page, and some pieces, such as the seasons posters, work for several activities like flash cards and Write the Room.

With this four seasons pack, you get

• Play dough mats with seasonal scenery and season words
• Clip cards, a matching game and sorting mats for hands-on practice
• Mini-books in color and black and white
• Write & Draw the Room pages and 3-piece puzzles
• A teacher instruction page for each activity

Great for math and literacy centers all year long!

What's Included

• Pages 4-12: Season play dough mats with scenery
• Pages 13-17: Season words play dough mats
• Pages 18-26: Find the season that doesn't match clip card strips
• Pages 27-30: Find the three matching seasonal pictures and words clip card circles
• Pages 31-35: Four Seasons flash cards
• Pages 36-37: Match It! A matching game
• Pages 38-44: Mini-books in color and black and white
• Pages 45-50: Write & Draw the Room
• Pages 51-54: Seasons sorting mats and pictures
• Pages 55-57: 3-piece puzzles
• Pages 58-68: Additional printables
• Teacher instructions on the first page of each activity

Why Teachers Love It

• Made for little learners: Colorful pictures and just a few familiar words keep every activity within reach for preschoolers.
• Math and literacy together: Matching, sorting and puzzles sit right beside season words and mini-books.
• Multi-use pages: The seasons posters work as flash cards, for Write the Room and more.
• Clear directions: Each activity has its own teacher instruction and suggestion page.
• Smaller file size: Multi-use pages are not duplicated, so print them more than once or use the pieces at different times.
• Hands-on centers: Play dough mats, clip cards and puzzles keep little hands busy while children learn.

Skills Students Practice

Primary Academic Skills

• Season recognition: Children name spring, summer, fall and winter from seasonal pictures and scenery.
• Sorting and classifying: Children sort pictures onto the seasons sorting mats.
• Finding what matches and what doesn't: Clip card strips ask children to find the season that doesn't match, and clip card circles ask them to find the three matching pictures or words.
• Season vocabulary: Season words play dough mats and mini-books connect pictures with familiar words.
• Visual discrimination: The Match It! game and 3-piece puzzles build careful looking.
• Fine motor strength: Play dough mats and clip cards build hand strength for writing.

Secondary Life & Learning Skills

• Following directions
• Taking turns
• Maintaining attention
• Communicating choices
• Working independently

How to Use It

Step 1: Print the activities you need. Print everything except the mini-books and additional printables on card stock and/or laminate for durability. For the Match It! game, print on card stock or one-sided scrapbooking paper so children cannot see through the cards.

Step 2: Read the teacher instruction page at the start of each activity and set up the pieces in your math or literacy center.

Step 3: Introduce the four seasons with the posters and flash cards, then let children rotate through the play dough mats, clip cards, matching game, sorting mats, puzzles and mini-books.

Materials You'll Need

• Card stock and/or laminating supplies
• One-sided scrapbooking paper (optional, for the Match It! game)
• Play dough for the play dough mats

Easy Differentiation

Preschoolers come to the seasons with different background knowledge. These activities make it easy to meet each child where they are.

For Children Who Need More Support

• Start with two seasons before adding all four
• Name the pictures on each card together before children begin
• Keep the seasons posters in view during centers
• Use the scenery play dough mats before the season words mats

For On-Level Practice

• Sort pictures onto all four seasons sorting mats
• Complete the clip card strips and circles in a center
• Read the mini-books together in a small group

For an Extra Challenge

• Use the season words play dough mats and read the words
• Complete Write & Draw the Room independently
• Ask children to explain why a picture belongs to a season
• Play Match It! with more cards at once

For Speech, OT, ELL or Special Education Support

• Use the flash cards to practice season words and target sounds
• Use the play dough mats and clip cards to build fine motor strength
• Offer two picture choices when a child needs help naming a season
• Model each activity and give extra processing time

Perfect For

• Math centers
• Literacy centers
• Seasons and weather units
• Circle time
• Small groups
• Preschool and pre-K classrooms
• Speech and OT sessions
• ELL support
• Homeschool

Standards

This four seasons pack supports the 2022 Texas Prekindergarten Guidelines, and it builds toward kindergarten skills in Common Core, the TEKS (Science 2021) and the Virginia Science SOL (2018):

Common Core State Standards

• CCSS L.K.5.a: Sort common objects into categories to gain a sense of the concepts the categories represent.
• CCSS K.MD.B.3: Classify objects into categories and count how many are in each.

Texas Prekindergarten Guidelines

• Texas Pre-K Guidelines PK4.VI.C.3: Observe and describe what happens during changes in the earth and sky, such as the changing seasons.
• Texas Pre-K Guidelines PK4.V.E.1: Sort objects that are the same and different, like seasonal pictures on the sorting mats.
• Texas Pre-K Guidelines PK4.II.D.1: Use a wide variety of words to label and describe pictures from every season.

Texas TEKS

• TEKS Science K.10.B: Observe and describe weather changes over seasons.

Virginia SOL

• VA SOL Science K.9.b: Understand that there are patterns in nature, including seasonal changes.

Add the Four Seasons Math & Literacy Pack to your cart and have over 50 pages of seasonal centers ready to go. Print, laminate and watch your little learners explore spring, summer, fall and winter all year long!

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