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Summer Centers and Activities for Pre-K, Preschool, and Kindergarten

We are officially on the summer countdown here at our house.  We keep our days pretty busy, but I try to make time for “school” activities as much as possible. This year, I’ll be using these Summer centers and activities for pre-k, preschool, and kindergarten with my youngest. If you’re teaching summer school – these summer centers are great for intervention, too.  You can find several other preschool activities and centers here.

Here’s what I’ve got planned for our preschool “school” time this summer.

These Summer Centers and Activities for Pre-K, Preschool, and Kindergarten are packed with fun, hands on, and engaging activities for teaching math and literacy. These summer centers and activities include several fine motor activities like a watermelon name craft and several other end of year summer theme activities. Click here to download free ocean theme letter cards.

SUMMER CENTERS AND ACTIVITIES FOR PRE-K, PRESCHOOL, AND KINDERGARTEN

My little guy is 4 and working on fine motor skills so we will use these summer pre-writing tracing cards as often as we can.  These are great for practicing pencil control.  I laminated them so that we can use them over and over.

These Summer Centers and Activities for Pre-K, Preschool, and Kindergarten are packed with fun, hands on, and engaging activities for teaching math, literacy, and letters. These summer centers and activities include several fine motor activities like a watermelon name craft, pre writing tracing cards, and several other end of year summer theme activities. Click here to download a free ocean theme summer activity.

We will also be using these seashell letter cards and a sand tray for letter practice to reinforce the identification and sound.  Sand trays are perfect for fine motor.  For this one, he will use a sea shell to create the letters or his finger. What I love about these are that you can add in any type of fine motor instrument to practice pencil grip…plus they are just plain fun!

These Summer Centers and Activities for Pre-K, Preschool, and Kindergarten are packed with fun, hands on, and engaging activities for teaching math, literacy, and letters. These summer centers and activities include several fine motor activities like a watermelon name craft, summer sand sensory tray, and several other end of year summer theme activities. Click here to download a free ocean theme summer activity.

I found our sand tray in the Target Dollar Spot. It was actually a tray that held lacing cards and I kept it to use as a sand tray. Haha! Here is one from Amazon (affiliate link) that will work, too!

A few other letter centers and activities that we will do are these:

These Summer Centers and Activities for Pre-K, Preschool, and Kindergarten are packed with fun, hands on, and engaging activities for teaching math, literacy, and letters. These summer centers and activities include several fine motor activities like a watermelon name craft, pre-writing tracing cards, summer sand sensory tray, and several other end of year summer theme activities. Click here to download a free ocean theme summer activity. These Summer Centers and Activities for Pre-K, Preschool, and Kindergarten are packed with fun, hands on, and engaging activities for teaching math, literacy, and letters. These summer centers and activities include several fine motor activities like a watermelon name craft, pre-writing tracing cards, summer sand sensory tray, and several other end of year summer theme activities. Click here to download a free ocean theme summer activity.

We will use these ocean animals puzzles for capital and lowercase letter matching.  These are self correcting which I looooove! Oh, and they are FREE (here). Double win!

These Summer Centers and Activities for Pre-K, Preschool, and Kindergarten are packed with fun, hands on, and engaging activities for teaching math and literacy. These summer centers and activities include several fine motor activities like a watermelon name craft, pre-writing tracing cards, summer sand sensory tray, and several other end of year summer theme activities. Click here to download free ocean theme letter cards.

Speaking of self-correcting, these summer rhyming cards are also self-correcting.

These Summer Centers and Activities for Pre-K, Preschool, and Kindergarten are packed with fun, hands on, and engaging activities for teaching math, literacy, and letters. These summer centers and activities include several fine motor activities like a watermelon name craft, pre-writing tracing cards, rhyming words, summer sand sensory tray, and several other end of year summer theme activities. Click here to download a free ocean theme summer activity.

Beginning sounds are another skill we will work on with these letter sound matches and picture cards.

These Summer Centers and Activities for Pre-K, Preschool, and Kindergarten are packed with fun, hands on, and engaging activities for teaching math, literacy, rhyming words, beginning sounds, pre-primer sight words, and letters. These summer centers and activities include several fine motor activities like a watermelon name craft, pre-writing tracing cards, rhyming words, summer sand sensory tray, and several other end of year summer theme activities. Click here to download a free ocean theme summer activity. These Summer Centers and Activities for Pre-K, Preschool, and Kindergarten are packed with fun, hands on, and engaging activities for teaching math, literacy, rhyming words, beginning sounds, pre-primer sight words, and letters. These kid summer centers and activities include several fine motor activities like a watermelon name craft, pre-writing tracing cards, rhyming words, summer sand sensory tray, and several other end of year summer theme activities. Click here to download a free ocean theme summer activity.

To wrap up our letter learning, we’ll sort letters by their attributes: straight, round, or both.  Letters are confusing for our little learners y’all, so as much practice they can get in various ways, the better!

These Summer Centers and Activities for Pre-K, Preschool, and Kindergarten are packed with fun, hands on, and engaging activities for teaching math, literacy, beginning sounds, pre-primer sight words, and letters. These summer centers and activities include several fine motor activities like a watermelon name craft, pre-writing tracing cards, rhyming words, summer sand sensory tray, and several other end of year summer theme activities. Click here to download a free ocean theme summer activity.

I am looking forward to introducing some simple sight words with this seashell sight word building activity. 

These Summer Centers and Activities for Pre-K, Preschool, and Kindergarten are packed with fun, hands on, and engaging activities for teaching math, literacy, beginning sounds, pre-primer sight words, and letters. These summer centers and activities include several fine motor activities like a watermelon name craft, pre-writing tracing cards, rhyming words, summer sand sensory tray, and several other end of year summer theme activities. Click here to download a free ocean theme summer activity.

Alright, let’s switch gears and look at some summer math centers and activities!

Counting Mats are one of my favorites. These hit so many skills: 1 to 1 correspondence, counting, number recognition and value, number sense, informal addition/subtraction and comparison…so many! These themed counting mats are all available here.

These Summer Centers and Activities for Pre-K, Preschool, and Kindergarten are packed with fun, hands on, and engaging activities for teaching math, counting, numbers, 1 to 1 correspondence, shapes, patterns, graphing, non-standard measurement, literacy, beginning sounds, pre-primer sight words, and letters. These summer centers and activities include several fine motor activities like a watermelon name craft, pre-writing tracing cards, rhyming words, summer sand sensory tray, and several other end of year summer theme activities. Click here to download a free ocean theme summer activity.

These Summer Centers and Activities for Pre-K, Preschool, and Kindergarten are packed with fun, hands on, and engaging activities for teaching math, counting, numbers, 1 to 1 correspondence, shapes, patterns, graphing, non-standard measurement, literacy, beginning sounds, pre-primer sight words, and letters. These summer centers and activities include several fine motor activities like a watermelon name craft, pre-writing tracing cards, rhyming words, summer sand sensory tray, and several other end of year summer theme activities. Click here to download a free ocean theme summer activity.

The Sun Ray one can be found here or here.

These Summer Centers and Activities for Pre-K, Preschool, and Kindergarten are packed with fun, hands on, and engaging activities for teaching math, counting, numbers, 1 to 1 correspondence, shapes, patterns, graphing, non-standard measurement, literacy, beginning sounds, pre-primer sight words, and letters. These summer centers and activities include several fine motor activities like a watermelon name craft, pre-writing tracing cards, rhyming words, summer sand sensory tray, and several other end of year summer theme activities. Click here to download a free ocean theme summer activity.

To practice writing numbers, we will use these:

These Summer Centers and Activities for Pre-K, Preschool, and Kindergarten are packed with fun, hands on, and engaging activities for teaching math, counting, numbers, 1 to 1 correspondence, shapes, patterns, graphing, non-standard measurement, literacy, beginning sounds, pre-primer sight words, and letters. These summer centers and activities include several fine motor activities like a watermelon name craft, pre-writing tracing cards, rhyming words, summer sand sensory tray, and several other end of year summer theme activities. Click here to download a free ocean theme summer activity.

Here are several shape summer centers and activities that we will add to our summer school days.

These Summer Centers and Activities for Pre-K, Preschool, and Kindergarten are packed with fun, hands on, and engaging activities for teaching math, counting, numbers, 1 to 1 correspondence, shapes, patterns, graphing, non-standard measurement, literacy, beginning sounds, pre-primer sight words, and letters. These summer centers and activities include several fine motor activities like a watermelon name craft, pre-writing tracing cards, rhyming words, summer sand sensory tray, and several other end of year summer theme activities. Click here to download a free ocean theme summer activity. These Summer Centers and Activities for Pre-K, Preschool, and Kindergarten are packed with fun, hands on, and engaging activities for teaching math, counting, numbers, 1 to 1 correspondence, shapes, patterns, graphing, non-standard measurement, literacy, beginning sounds, pre-primer sight words, and letters. These summer centers and activities include several fine motor activities like a watermelon name craft, pre-writing tracing cards, rhyming words, summer sand sensory tray, and several other end of year summer theme activities. Click here to download a free ocean theme summer activity. These Summer Centers and Activities for Pre-K, Preschool, and Kindergarten are packed with fun, hands on, and engaging activities for teaching math, counting, numbers, 1 to 1 correspondence, shapes, patterns, graphing, non-standard measurement, literacy, beginning sounds, pre-primer sight words, and letters. These summer centers and activities include several fine motor activities like a watermelon name craft, pre-writing tracing cards, rhyming words, summer sand sensory tray, and several other end of year summer theme activities. Click here to download a free ocean theme summer activity.

These ice cream subtilizing counting cards are also on the list!

These Summer Centers and Activities for Pre-K, Preschool, and Kindergarten are packed with fun, hands on, and engaging activities for teaching math, counting, numbers, 1 to 1 correspondence, shapes, patterns, graphing, non-standard measurement, literacy, beginning sounds, pre-primer sight words, and letters. These summer centers and activities include several fine motor activities like a watermelon name craft, pre-writing tracing cards, rhyming words, summer sand sensory tray, and several other end of year summer theme activities. Click here to download a free ocean theme summer activity.

Here are several other summer centers and activities that we are planning to use!

Number identification and comparing numbers:

These Summer Centers and Activities for Pre-K, Preschool, and Kindergarten are packed with fun, hands on, and engaging activities for teaching math, counting, numbers, 1 to 1 correspondence, shapes, patterns, graphing, non-standard measurement, literacy, beginning sounds, pre-primer sight words, and letters. These summer centers and activities include several fine motor activities like a watermelon name craft, pre-writing tracing cards, rhyming words, summer sand sensory tray, and several other end of year summer theme activities. Click here to download a free ocean theme summer activity. These Summer Centers and Activities for Pre-K, Preschool, and Kindergarten are packed with fun, hands on, and engaging activities for teaching math, counting, numbers, 1 to 1 correspondence, shapes, patterns, graphing, non-standard measurement, literacy, beginning sounds, pre-primer sight words, and letters. These summer centers and activities include several fine motor activities like a watermelon name craft, pre-writing tracing cards, rhyming words, summer sand sensory tray, and several other end of year summer theme activities. Click here to download a free ocean theme summer activity.

Informal addition and subtraction:

These Summer Centers and Activities for Pre-K, Preschool, and Kindergarten are packed with fun, hands on, and engaging activities for teaching math, counting, numbers, 1 to 1 correspondence, shapes, patterns, graphing, non-standard measurement, literacy, beginning sounds, pre-primer sight words, and letters. These summer centers and activities include several fine motor activities like a watermelon name craft, pre-writing tracing cards, rhyming words, summer sand sensory tray, and several other end of year summer theme activities. Click here to download a free ocean theme summer activity. These Summer Centers and Activities for Pre-K, Preschool, and Kindergarten are packed with fun, hands on, and engaging activities for teaching math, counting, numbers, 1 to 1 correspondence, shapes, patterns, graphing, non-standard measurement, literacy, beginning sounds, pre-primer sight words, and letters. These summer centers and activities include several fine motor activities like a watermelon name craft, pre-writing tracing cards, rhyming words, summer sand sensory tray, and several other end of year summer theme activities. Click here to download a free ocean theme summer activity.

Patterns and graphing:

These Summer Centers and Activities for Pre-K, Preschool, and Kindergarten are packed with fun, hands on, and engaging activities for teaching math, counting, numbers, 1 to 1 correspondence, shapes, patterns, graphing, non-standard measurement, literacy, beginning sounds, pre-primer sight words, and letters. These summer centers and activities include several fine motor activities like a watermelon name craft, pre-writing tracing cards, rhyming words, summer sand sensory tray, and several other end of year summer theme activities. Click here to download a free ocean theme summer activity. These Summer Centers and Activities for Pre-K, Preschool, and Kindergarten are packed with fun, hands on, and engaging activities for teaching math, counting, numbers, 1 to 1 correspondence, shapes, patterns, graphing, non-standard measurement, literacy, beginning sounds, pre-primer sight words, and letters. These summer centers and activities include several fine motor activities like a watermelon name craft, pre-writing tracing cards, rhyming words, summer sand sensory tray, and several other end of year summer theme activities. Click here to download a free ocean theme summer activity.

and non-standard measurement:

These Summer Centers and Activities for Pre-K, Preschool, and Kindergarten are packed with fun, hands on, and engaging activities for teaching math, counting, numbers, 1 to 1 correspondence, shapes, patterns, graphing, non-standard measurement, literacy, beginning sounds, pre-primer sight words, and letters. These summer centers and activities include several fine motor activities like a watermelon name craft, pre-writing tracing cards, rhyming words, summer sand sensory tray, and several other end of year summer theme activities. Click here to download a free ocean theme summer activity.

Oh my goodness, there’s just so many activities!

I am hoping to get this watermelon name craft done, too!

These Summer Centers and Activities for Pre-K, Preschool, and Kindergarten are packed with fun, hands on, and engaging activities for teaching math, counting, numbers, 1 to 1 correspondence, shapes, patterns, graphing, non-standard measurement, literacy, beginning sounds, pre-primer sight words, and letters. These summer centers and activities include several fine motor activities like a watermelon name craft, pre-writing tracing cards, rhyming words, summer sand sensory tray, and several other end of year summer theme activities. Click here to download a free ocean theme summer activity.

Oh, and these color cards and these play dough cards are also on the list!

These Summer Centers and Activities for Pre-K, Preschool, and Kindergarten are packed with fun, hands on, and engaging activities for teaching math, counting, numbers, 1 to 1 correspondence, shapes, patterns, graphing, non-standard measurement, literacy, beginning sounds, pre-primer sight words, and letters. These summer centers and activities include several fine motor activities like a watermelon name craft, pre-writing tracing cards, rhyming words, summer sand sensory tray, and several other end of year summer theme activities. Click here to download a free ocean theme summer activity. These Summer Centers and Activities for Pre-K, Preschool, and Kindergarten are packed with fun, hands on, and engaging activities for teaching math, counting, numbers, 1 to 1 correspondence, shapes, patterns, graphing, non-standard measurement, literacy, beginning sounds, pre-primer sight words, and letters. These summer centers and activities include several fine motor activities like a watermelon name craft, pre-writing tracing cards, rhyming words, summer sand sensory tray, and several other end of year summer theme activities. Click here to download a free ocean theme summer activity.

Whew, that’s a lot but we are so excited to get started on these! The best part is…these centers and activities will last us alllll summer long!

You can find these activities plus more in the link below:

Summer Centers and Activities for Pre-K, Preschool, and Kindergarten

These Summer Centers and Activities for Pre-K, Preschool, and Kindergarten are packed with fun, hands on, and engaging activities for teaching math, counting, numbers, 1 to 1 correspondence, shapes, patterns, graphing, non-standard measurement, literacy, beginning sounds, pre-primer sight words, and letters. These summer centers and activities include several fine motor activities like a watermelon name craft, pre-writing tracing cards, rhyming words, summer sand sensory tray, and several other end of year summer theme activities. Click here to download a free ocean theme summer activity.

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