Weather preschool math and literacy centers for rain or shine! Your little learners are going to LOVE this Weather Theme Math & Literacy Pack, with 35+ playful, hands-on activities that build early math and literacy skills while children think they are just playing.

Whether you are learning about rainbows, clouds, sunshine or snowflakes, these centers give preschool and pre-K children colorful weather pictures, fine motor practice and plenty of chances to build confidence. Children count raindrops, match cloud alphabet cards, hear beginning sounds and rhymes, make AB patterns and graph with dice and spinners. A ten-frame is a simple grid of ten boxes that helps children see and count numbers.

With this weather math and literacy pack, you get

• 35+ weather math and literacy activities
• Counting to 3, 5 and 10 with ten-frames, roll and count mats and missing number cards
• Alphabet, beginning sound, rhyming and pre-writing practice
• Fine motor centers with play dough mats, clip cards and raindrop counting strings
• A full class set of Weather BINGO

Print, laminate and your weather centers are ready to go.

What's Included

This pack is loaded with playful printables and easy-to-prep centers, covering:

Literacy Skills

• Alphabet uppercase/lowercase recognition
• Beginning sounds
• Rhyming
• Pre-writing and tracing practice
• Write-the-Room and Draw-the-Room

Math Skills

• Counting to 3, 5 and 10
• Ten-frames, number ID and number writing
• Matching, sorting and puzzles
• Comparing size (smallest/largest)
• AB patterning
• Dice and spinner graphing games
• Roll and count mats
• Missing number cards

Critical Thinking & Visual Discrimination

• What Doesn't Belong?
• Picture, ten-frame, shape and rhyme matching
• Tic-Tac-Toe

Fine Motor Fun

• Tracing cards for letters, numbers and shapes
• Shape Play Dough Mats
• Rain Drop Counting Strings
• Clip Cards (colors, ten-frames, matching, shapes, arrays)

Also Included

• A full class set of Weather BINGO for circle time and fun Fridays
• A teacher instruction page for every center with prep tips and suggestions for differentiation
• Assessment sheets with many of the centers

Why Teachers Love It

• A whole weather unit in one pack: With 35+ activities, you have fresh math and literacy centers for weeks.
• Math and literacy together: Counting, sorting, graphing and patterns sit right alongside letters, beginning sounds and rhyming.
• Hands-on from start to finish: Play dough mats, clip cards, dice and raindrop counting strings keep little hands busy.
• Easy to prep: Print, laminate once and reuse the centers every time weather comes up in your plans.
• Easy to differentiate: Every center has a teacher instruction page with prep tips and differentiation ideas.
• Built-in checks: Many centers include assessment sheets so children can show what they know.
• Easy whole-group wins: Weather BINGO is ready for circle time and fun Fridays.

Skills Students Practice

Primary Academic Skills

• Counting and number recognition: Children count to 3, 5 and 10 with ten-frames, roll and count mats and number cards.
• Number order: Missing number cards help children figure out which number comes next.
• Number writing: Tracing cards and number mats give practice writing numbers.
• Sorting and graphing: Children sort weather pictures and collect data with dice and spinner graphing games.
• Patterns: AB patterning activities help children copy and continue simple patterns.
• Size comparison: Children find the smallest and largest pictures.
• Shape recognition: Shape matching, shape clip cards and play dough mats build 2D shape knowledge.
• Alphabet knowledge: Children match uppercase and lowercase letters.
• Phonemic awareness: Beginning sound and rhyme activities help children hear the sounds in words.
• Visual discrimination: "What Doesn't Belong?" asks children to spot the picture that does not fit.
• Fine motor and pre-writing: Tracing cards, play dough mats, clip cards and counting strings build hand strength and control.
• Weather vocabulary: Write-the-Room and Draw-the-Room have children find, write and draw weather words.

Secondary Life & Learning Skills

• Taking turns
• Waiting during group play
• Following directions
• Listening to classmates
• Using mathematical language
• Working independently

How to Use It

Step 1: Choose the centers you want for the week. Print them on paper or card stock and laminate them for durability.

Step 2: Read the teacher instruction page for each center and introduce the activity in a small group. Add clothespins, dice, paper clips, crayons or dry erase markers as needed.

Step 3: Move the activities into your math and literacy centers. Use the assessment sheets to see what children know, then bring out Weather BINGO for a whole-group game.

Materials You'll Need

• Paper or card stock
• Laminating pouches and a laminator
• Clothespins, dice, paper clips, crayons and dry erase markers
• Optional: math links for the raindrop counting chains

Easy Differentiation

Preschoolers come to weather centers with a wide range of skills. These activities are easy to adjust for each child.

For Children Who Need More Support

• Start with the counting to 3 and counting to 5 activities
• Count together while touching each picture on the ten-frame
• Use fewer letter pairs in the alphabet matching activities
• Begin with picture matching before moving to rhyme matching

For On-Level Practice

• Use the counting to 10 activities and ten-frame clip cards
• Copy and continue AB patterns
• Play the dice and spinner graphing games with a partner
• Match all of the uppercase and lowercase letter pairs

For an Extra Challenge

• Fill in the missing number cards without a number line
• Create new AB patterns with weather pictures
• Tell which group on the graph has more and which has fewer
• Write weather words during Write-the-Room and draw a picture for each one

For Speech, OT, ELL or Special Education Support

• Name each weather picture together to build vocabulary
• Practice target sounds with the beginning sound and rhyming activities
• Use the tracing cards, play dough mats, clip cards and counting strings for fine motor work
• Repeat favorite centers often for extra practice
• Give extra processing time and offer one center at a time

Perfect For

• Preschool and pre-K classrooms
• Weather units
• Math and literacy centers
• Small groups
• Circle time and whole-group BINGO
• Intervention
• Special education classrooms
• ELL support
• Homeschool

Standards

These weather centers support the 2022 Texas Prekindergarten Guidelines and Virginia's Early Learning and Development Standards (2021), and they build toward kindergarten skills in Common Core, the TEKS and the Virginia SOL (Math 2023, English 2024):

Common Core State Standards

• CCSS K.CC.B.4.a: Say number names in order while pairing each object with one number.
• CCSS K.MD.B.3: Classify objects into categories and count how many are in each, as in the sorting and graphing games.
• CCSS RF.K.1.d: Recognize and name uppercase and lowercase letters.
• CCSS RF.K.2.a: Recognize and produce rhyming words.

Texas Prekindergarten Guidelines

• Texas Pre-K Guidelines PK4.V.A.2: Count up to 10 objects, touching one object for each number, with ten-frames and roll and count mats.
• Texas Pre-K Guidelines PK4.V.A.5: Recognize numerals 0-10 on number cards and missing number cards.
• Texas Pre-K Guidelines PK4.V.C.1: Name and describe common 2D shapes with shape matching and the play dough mats.
• Texas Pre-K Guidelines PK4.V.D.1: Compare the size of objects to find the smallest and largest.
• Texas Pre-K Guidelines PK4.V.E.1: Sort objects that are the same and different, such as weather pictures.
• Texas Pre-K Guidelines PK4.V.E.2: Collect data and organize it in a graph with the dice and spinner graphing games.
• Texas Pre-K Guidelines PK4.V.E.3: Recognize, copy and extend patterns with the AB patterning activities.
• Texas Pre-K Guidelines PK4.III.B.6: Identify rhyming words with rhyme matching.
• Texas Pre-K Guidelines PK4.III.C.1: Recognize and name letters while matching uppercase and lowercase pairs.
• Texas Pre-K Guidelines PK4.III.C.2: Recognize letter-sound correspondences with the beginning sound activities.
• Texas Pre-K Guidelines PK4.IX.B.2: Show growing control in tasks that need eye-hand coordination, such as tracing and clip cards.

Texas TEKS

• TEKS Math K.2.C: Count a set of objects and show that the last number said tells how many.
• TEKS Math K.8.B: Use data to create real-object and picture graphs.
• TEKS ELAR K.2.A.i: Identify and produce rhyming words.

Virginia Early Learning and Development Standards

• Virginia ELDS CD3.1: Compare numbers, count and recognize quantities with ten-frames and counting mats.
• Virginia ELDS CD3.4: Sort, classify and pattern with weather pictures.
• Virginia ELDS CD3.5: Describe and compare objects by size.
• Virginia ELDS CLLD2.3: Notice that spoken words are made of smaller sounds, including beginning sounds and rhyming parts.
• Virginia ELDS CLLD2.4: Learn how letters work by matching uppercase and lowercase letters.
• Virginia ELDS HPD3.2: Develop small muscle control with play dough mats, clothespins and counting strings.

Virginia SOL

• VA SOL Math K.NS.1.a: Use one-to-one correspondence to find how many are in a set.
• VA SOL Math K.PS.1.a: Sort and classify objects by one attribute, such as size.
• VA SOL Math K.PFA.1.b: Extend a repeating pattern by adding at least two more repetitions of the core.
• VA SOL English K.FFR.3.A: Identify capital and lowercase letters of the alphabet.

Add the Weather Theme Preschool/Pre-K Math & Literacy Centers to your cart and have 35+ hands-on weather centers ready to go. It is a perfect fit for preschool teachers, homeschool moms and intervention specialists who are ready for fun, hands-on, skill-packed play. Your kids won't even realize how much they're learning!

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