Zoo Math and Literacy Centers for Preschool, Pre-K, and Kindergarten

Zoo centers are loaded with fun, engaging, hands-on activities to help your students build math and literacy concepts for a zoo, habitat, or animal theme. This unit includes rainforest, desert, savannah, polar, and ocean animals! It includes two fine motor activities, one writing center, six literacy activities, and eight math activities.

Literacy skills covered are letter identification, letter formation, rhyming, sight words, beginning sounds, syllables, building vocabulary words, writing/journaling, and reading comprehension. Math skills covered are one-to-one correspondence, counting, addition, number identification, number formation, number lines, tally marks, maps, weight comparison, sorting, graphs, and 2D shapes. Each activity has a page of teacher tips to help you create the activity easily and ensure it will go smoothly. You can use these activities as arrival activities, morning work, center activities, small group instruction, and circle time. These activities are designed for preschool, pre-k, or kindergarten.

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Included (updated April 2024):

• Labels
• Printing Tips
• Zookeeper Cutting Craftivity
• Zoo Pre-Writing Tracing Cards with worksheets
• Zoo Writing Paper with and without lines (4 options)
• 34 vocabulary words cards (uppercase and lowercase set)
• Polar Animals Letter Match Up (uppercase to lowercase) with worksheets
• Zoo Letter and Beginning Sound Mats with worksheets
• Zoo Letter and Sound Path Games (backline version) with worksheets
• Zoo Animals Syllable Sort with worksheet
• Rainforest Animals Read, Write, Build (letters & sight words) with uppercase letter cards, lowercase letter cards, and worksheets
• Desert Animal Rhymes with worksheet
• Emergent Reader: Zookeeper, Zookeeper, What Do You See?
• Zoo Families Number Lines (1-20) with worksheets (tiger, giraffe, penguin)
• Zoo Cover Up with worksheets
• Savanah Animals Spin & Graph (color and blackline versions)
• Zoo Roll & Dot (counting or addition) with worksheet (snake and monkey)
• Jungle/Rainforest 2D Shape Puzzles with worksheet
• Zoo Animal Sort with worksheet
• Weigh the Zoo Animals with worksheet
• Zoo Maps with worksheets

Take the zoo theme all over your classroom with Zoo Dramatic Play,FREE Animal Walks Transition Cards, Habitat Science Unit, and Habitat STEM I Can Build cards!

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