Kindergarten Morning Tubs Math and Literacy Activities

Hands-on learning is crucial to academic and motor development and these morning tubs help with strengthening fine motor skills. Print and prep these activities, set out for your students, and watch their learning soar!

You can also use these hands-on activities during centers, rotations, station work, or for early finishers. 

What’s Included:

• Beginning of The Year Set-Up Instructions
• How to Use Tips for Classroom Management
• Clear Directions for Each Activity with Images
• Helpful Materials Lists
• Morning tubs for the beginning of the year
• Morning tubs for the middle of the year
• Morning tubs for the end of the year

All the skills correlate with the beginning, middle, and end of the year kindergarteners so your students can work on everything independently, giving you time to focus your attention on other needs!

Literacy Skills Include:

• Name writing practice *editable file included!*
• Fine motor practice
• Letter tracing practice
• Letter recognition practice
• Letter writing practice
• Missing letter practice
• Sight word writing practice *editable file included!*
• Sentence writing practice
• Rhyming words practice
• Color words practice
• Beginning sounds practice
• Letter writing practice
• Beginning sounds drawing cards
• Beginning sounds clip cards
• 2 Sight word writing practice *editable file included!*
• Word family match
• Upper & lowercase letter match
• Syllables clip cards
• CVC word match
• Beginning sounds linking cards
• CVC words spin & write
• Beginning blends clip cards
• Search and write sight word writing practice *editable file included!*
• Short and long vowel word search
• Spin and write short and long vowel words
• Spin and write digraphs
• Roll and write sentences *editable file included!*
• Beginning blends sort
• Building CVC and CVCe words
• Playdoh mats
• Read and match sentences

Math Skills

• Number tracing practice
• Number word practice
• Counting clips
• Tracing shapes
• Glue dots
• Fine motor numbers
• Buttons in a jar
• One-to-one counting
• Count & match
• Number tracing practice
• Trace it, build it, write it, numbers
• Roll & Solve
• Numbers 1-20 linking cards
• Number bonds
• Pick & count
• Pick & solve
• Manipulating patterns
• Spin it, build it, solve it {addition & subtraction}
• Count & match 11-20
• Building teen numbers
• Building addition sentences
• Spin & cover ten frames
• Ice cube tray addition to 10
• Teen numbers practice
• Base ten blocks
• Playdoh addition to 10
• Subtraction practice
• Subtraction story problems
• Fish bowl addition and subtraction practice
• Frogs in a pond- addition and subtraction practice

Suggestions For Use:

Make morning work part of your classroom procedures. From the beginning of the year, teach students to hang backpacks, put lunchboxes away, and grab a morning tub. This will quickly become the consistent morning routine your students know and look forward to. The management is up to you, whether you want to assign partners to specific tubs or let your students choose.

Why teachers love these!

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ “This is such a great bundle to have to use for morning work!  They are engaging, and work for different levels.  I love that there are many options to differentiate based on student needs.  They are engaging for students.” – Dayna W.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ “My students love this morning tubs for our soft start each morning. I love how they are differentiated for all the different learning needs and expectations as the students are entering the classroom. My class is having fun completing the activities as I have to complete my own morning work for the office. I cannot wait to continue to offer additional tubs as the year goes on. “ – Sarah S.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ “I used this resource for summer school with students who will be coming into Kindergarten and students who will be going into 1st grade. They loved it and so did I. I did not have to waste time explaining the directions and the pictures that came with it were perfect. I will definitely be using this with my kindergarten students this year! “ – Rashanda W.