Winter Centers with a Scan & Cut Giveaway!

Hey all!!!  I hope you enjoyed your break and ready or not… excited to kickoff the second half of your school year! Today’s post is all about winter centers… but it’s filled with goodies aka freebies & GIVEAWAYS!

 **I would like to say also that I am not being paid by HP,  Brother,  Amazon or any other company.  I also do not have any affiliate links for these two products on my page!  These are just products I personally have at my house and use!  I like to try and GIVE BACK to teachers and thought this would be a fun way to do so! ** 

  Let’s get started!  Now teachers unfortunately are always “prepping”.  What are we prepping?  Well, we preparing for our academic days!  You see even if we work for awesome districts and they us these million dollar curriculum programs from these fancy smancy companies… they still don’t have everything our kiddos need!  Something these programs lack is centers!  Centers are way for students to work independent.  Why must kiddos work independently you ask?  Students work independently for a variety of reasons but the majority of the time it is so the teacher can work with students in small groups at their own instructional level.   Today I would like to talk more about centers!

Last year I found myself scrambling for centers each week!  Well… let me put it this way…. quick!  What can I print, laminate, cut and throw into a basket without staying here until midnight!? HA!  A little dramatic… but pretty much!  Another biggie was my kiddos’ OBSESSION with our weekly KinderLiteracy themes!  They ate it up and wanted more, more, more!  We couldn’t read enough books or watch enough YouTube clips for our theme!

The first time I showed them our new themed centers….well they flipped out! What does that mean in teacher lingo?  Happy kids equals ENGAGED kids!  I’m sure you’ve ran across many center packets on TpT and I have several in my shop as well.  They are all fantastic… but I still wanted more for my kiddos!  They loved their skill focus centers for alphabet, sounds, rhyming, etc…. However, I wanted centers that would match up to our class themes and centers that would be so fun… they’d forget they were learning!

  

When I mapped out my list of themes and started creating the centers I knew I wanted something different from these centers.  I wanted them to take on more of a “real-life” look as I knew this would be even more exciting for the kids!  You’ll notice in the pictures below that there are very few “cut on the straight line” centers.  These are hands-on and require the kids to really manipulate the pieces!  Up first I will share my Kindergarten themed centers!  Even if you don’t teach KinderLiteracy…you’ll notice that they are all very common themes covered in kindergarten!  There are 25 themes and you can see the full list below:

School, Apples, Transportation, Seasons, Pumpkins, Three Pigs, Three Goats, Three Bears, Little Red Hen, Bats, Scarecrows, Reindeer, Snow, Penguins, Snakes, Dinosaurs, Moon, Weather, Ponies, Rabbits, Frogs, Butterflies, Flowers, Community Helpers, Ocean

After many requests for additional Kinder themes, I then created a second set of Kinder centers!  This set is all NEW themes for Kinder!  This is Kinder Themed Centers Set Two!

Fire Safety, Space, Patriotic, Volcanoes, Owls, Spiders, Thanksgiving, Gingerbread Boy, Christmas, Mitten, Bears, Valentine’s Day, Dental, Friendship, St. Patrick’s Day, Farm, Chickens, Tigers, Koalas, Pirates

*Below is a look at the the Kinder Themed centers in ACTION! These two centers will be part of the FREEBIE!

Then of course to follow suit with Kindergarten, I made a second set of first grade centers!  Let’s take a look at the First Grade Centers Set Two!

Spiders, Owls, Red Riding Hood, Thanksgiving, Christmas, Gingerbread Boy, Mitten, Valentine’s Day, Friendship, Dental, St. Patrick’s Day, Farm, Insects, Chickens, Tigers, Cows, Fish, Koalas, Pirates

*Below is a look at the the Firstie Themed centers in ACTION! These two centers will be part of the FREEBIE!

Up next was of course second grade themed centers!

Halloween, Bats, Patriotic, Thanksgiving, Reindeer, Christmas, Snow, Penguins, Valentine’s Day, Dinosaurs, St. Patrick’s Day, Weather, Farm, Butterflies, Frogs, Flowers, Ocean, Pirates, Apples, Back to School

*Below is a look at the the Second Themed centers in ACTION! These two centers will be part of the FREEBIE!

I really thought I had MASTERED and CONQUERED every last wish for centers in all of center land HAHA! However, I had left out Pre-K and that’s no good! The centers had been on my list forever and to finally be able to bring them to you made me so happy!  I got emailed a lot from Pre-K teachers that were desperate for appropriate Pre-K materials!  I think Pre-K teachers are complete SAINTS to start with to work with out littlest learners but then to constantly take kinder curriculum and knock it down a few notches– well they are SUPER SAINTS! The Pre-K themed literacy and math centers bundle includes 25 themes and a total of 250 centers WOOT!!!!  Each of the themed center packets include 5 literacy centers and 5 math centers!  Each of the centers come with an “I Can” card, recording sheet and a self-check sheet!  Along with these included sheets, each bundle also comes with teacher observation check lists!  This is perfect for teachers and aides that need documentation for student work!

What themes are included?

Nursery Rhymes, School Cats, Colors, Apples, Friends, Seasons, Fire Safety, Farm, Transportation, Pumpkins, Thanksgiving, Christmas, Penguins, Valentine’s Day, Bears, Groundhogs, Dinosaurs, Read Day, Unicorns, Space, Zoo Animals, Bugs, Plants, Weather, Butterflies

*Below is a look at the the Pre-K Themed centers in ACTION! These two centers will be part of the FREEBIE!

Now it’s time to snag your FREEBIE! Grab all of the centers pictured above by clicking HERE or on the image below!

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