10 Winter Math and ELA Centers to Use During Winter Months

Centers are a fun way to get through the long winter months! Get 10 winter themed hands on centers perfect for smalls groups or independent work.

Of course, the winter season would not be complete without winter centers! Before springtime hits is the time when most teachers are brushing up on skills and concepts usually on standardized tests. Teaching those common skills doesn’t have to be boring! Having centers is a great way for kids to practice concepts such as categorizing parts of speech, or finding which sentences are complete or not.

All my winter centers are sold either individually or as a bundle.

ELA Winter Centers

Snowball Complete and Incomplete Sentences has students read each sentence and decide if it is a complete or incomplete sentence. They then place the snowballs in the correct pail then rewrite five incomplete sentences to make them complete.

Winter centers for the classroom. Snowball Complete and Incomplete Sentences Center is a fun and interactive way for students to practice recognizing complete and incomplete sentences. The object of the center is to place each snowball in the correct pail. Then students will make five of the incomplete sentences complete with the recording sheet.

With Skate Around the Contractions students match each broken ice patch to create a contraction. Then match with the ice skate with the correct contraction.

Ideas for winter centers in the classroom. Match each broken ice patch to create a contraction. Then match with the ice skate with the correct contraction. Perfect for practicing contractions during the winter season!

This adorable center Penguin Synonyms and Antonyms matches each penguin with the correct hat that contains the antonym and the ice patch that has the matching synonym.

Ideas for winter centers in the classroom. Synonyms and Antonym Penguins Center is a fun and interactive way for students to practice finding synonyms and antonyms for words. The object of the center is to match each penguin to the correct hat that is the words antonym as well as the correct ice patch that has the words synonym!

Can you tell I love penguins!? Penguin Parts of Speech has 80 different penguins that match with an ice patch that is either a noun, verb, adjective or adverb.

Parts of Speech Penguins Center is a fun and interactive way for students to practice matching words with the correct part of speech. This center comes with 80 different penguins that students will match to the correct ice patch! Covers nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs.

Homonyms (or multiple-meaning words) can be tricky to teach, but don’t have to be with Multiple Meaning Mittens. Students match each mitten with a definition to the correct basket. There are directions included to make this center even MORE hands-on!

Multiple Meaning Mittens Center is a fun and interactive way for students to practice understanding homonyms or multiple meaning words. The object of the center is for students to find two mittens that have different definitions that are both the same word.

Math Centers

Snowman Place Value is a fun center where students build a snowman by matching the parts of a snowman that has numbers in numerical form, expanded form, and written form.

Snowman Place Value Center is a fun and interactive way for students to practice matching numbers with their numerical form, expanded form and written form. Winter centers for the classroom.

Snowball Even and Odd has students solve equations with up to three digits and place them in the correct pail based on if the answer is even or odd.

Solve equations with up to three digits and place in the correct pail based on if the answer is even or odd.

One of the best things about winter is being able to come in from the cold and get a cup of hot chocolate! Bring warmth and tastiness into the classroom, while teaching time, with Hot Chocolate Time. Each mug contains an analog clock on it and matches with up to 2 marshmallows written in digital or written time! Contains times for every five minutes!

Match digital and analog times with Hot Chocolate Time! The perfect math activity/center for a cold winter day! Winter centers for the classroom.

Arctic Addends is a fun center for students to practice finding missing addends. They match each igloo containing a number with the equation on the ice patch where the number will fit.

Match each igloo containing a number with the equation on the ice patch where the number will fit.

You can get all of these centers individually or save with the bundle and have ten math and ELA centers for winter!

Winter Literacy and Math Centers for Second Grade includes 10 centers for both literacy and math concepts all in a fun winter theme. Have students practice time, parts of speech, money, missing addends, multiple-meaning words and more! ✷These centers are geared towards 2nd graders, but can also be used for talented first graders or third graders who may be struggling a bit.✷

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