Celebrate spring in your classroom with these fun and engaging learning activities for kindergarten and first grade! From Signs of Spring Mini Books to editable spring games, poems, phonics activities, and skip counting, these resources help build literacy and math skills while embracing the season. Perfect for centers, small groups, and whole-class learning!
Spring is in the air, and it’s the perfect time to bring seasonal excitement into your classroom! Whether you’re focusing on reading, writing, phonics, or math, these spring-themed activities will keep your kindergarten and first-grade students engaged while reinforcing essential skills.
This collection of spring literacy and math resources includes:
✅ Signs of Spring Mini Books with multiple reading levels
✅ 8 Spring Poems for fluency and shared reading
✅ 15 Editable Spring Games for sight words, phonics, and math
✅ Frog Onset Rime Word Blending Activity for phonemic awareness
✅ Spring Skip Counting Center for number sequencing practice
✅ 5 Editable Gameboards for endless learning fun
All of these resources come in color and blackline versions and are designed to be engaging, easy to prep, and perfect for small groups, centers, and whole-class activities. Plus, they are available in a money-saving value bundle! Keep reading to explore each resource in detail.
Signs of Spring Mini Books (3 Reading Levels + Word Wall)
Introduce your students to the wonders of spring with these Signs of Spring Mini Books! Available in color and blackline, these books come in three differentiated reading levels, making it easy to meet the needs of all learners. Each book explores seasonal changes, plants, animals, and weather while building reading fluency and comprehension. Plus, an illustrated word wall helps students learn and use spring vocabulary in their writing and discussions.
📌 Perfect for: Small groups, independent reading, and science connections
🌸 8 Spring Poems for Shared Reading & Fluency
Boost reading fluency and engagement with this set of 8 spring-themed poems! These poems are great for shared reading, poetry notebooks, fluency practice, and even a performance. Each poem comes in color and blackline, making them easy to use for whole-class instruction or literacy centers.
📌 Perfect for: Morning meetings, read-alouds, shared reading, poetry centers, and fluency practice
Spring-Themed Phonics and Word Work
Make word blending and phonemic awareness fun with this frog-themed onset-rime activity! With 60 onsets and 120 rimes, students can create real and nonsense words at various difficulty levels, making it easy to differentiate for your learners. This hands-on activity is perfect for helping students strengthen their decoding and blending skills in a playful way.
📌 Perfect for: Phonics centers, small groups, and intervention
🌼 Editable Spring Learning Activities and Games
Bring fun and flexibility to your classroom with this set of 15 unique, editable spring games! Each game comes in color and blackline and can be customized for any skill, including: Sight words, CVC words, Letters and phonemes, or Math facts.
Each game offers a different learning experience to keep students engaged. The set includes:
- Spring Bingo
- Game Boards
- Go Fish
- “I Have… Who Has…?”
- Cut-and-Glue Matching
- Color By Code
- Roll and Write
- Spin and Write
- The Hungry Frog
- 6 Spring Card Games
📌 Perfect for: Centers, partner games, and small-group instruction
Add even more flexibility to your classroom games with this set of 5 editable gameboards! These gameboards allow you to create custom activities for sight words, phonics, vocabulary, math skills, and more. Whether you’re practicing CVC words, digraphs, blends, addition, or subtraction, these boards can be adapted to fit your students’ needs.
📌 Perfect for: Literacy and math centers, partner work, and review activities
Spring Skip Counting Center
Help students master skip counting with this interactive spring-themed center! Students will arrange cards in order as they practice counting:
✅ By ones to 20
✅ By ones to 120
✅ By twos, fives, and tens
This hands-on activity reinforces number sequencing, counting fluency, and pattern recognition in an engaging way.
📌 Perfect for: Math centers, independent practice, and small groups
Spring is a season of growth and renewal, and it’s the perfect time to refresh your learning activities with these engaging, low-prep resources! Whether you’re looking for reading, phonics, or math activities, these spring-themed centers and games will keep your students excited about learning.
Ready to get started? Grab these Spring Learning Activities today and bring seasonal fun to your classroom! 🌸🐸🌷
