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Summer Morning Work Materials

Summer Morning Work Materials

If you’re looking for detailed information regarding each of the activities included in this Summer Morning Work packet, please click on the link below to see the corresponding blog post.

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Summer Morning Work

  • Summer Morning Work Stations

Materials Used In Activities

I always encourage teachers to use what they have or use what’s cheap. However, there are always teachers who would like to locate specific items that I may have used in activities. So I created a list below to help. Just click on any highlighted text to see where I secured various items.


1.Fun at the Beach Sight Word Links

  • Editable Sight Word Cards
  • Seashell Letter Cards
  • Plastic Clips or Clothespins

2.Fun at the Beach CVC Self-Correcting

  • Plastic links or clothespins
  • Shell letter cards or real shells with letters written on them or beads with letters
  • Self-correcting beach bucket cards
  • Response sheet (Included in this set and optional)

3. Fun at the Beach Links Numbers and Quantities

  • Plastic links
  • Fun At The Beach Themed Number Cards and Quantity Cards printed on cardstock and laminated for durability (Included in this set)
  • Sensory bin with thematic items

4.Fishy Fishy Sand Tray Sight Words Trays

  • Fishy Fishy Sight Word Cards (available in this set)
  • Small cake pan or cookie sheet
  • Thematic fishy pencil
  • Blue colored sand or salt
  • Fun Fish Sprinkles or confetti (optional)

5.Melon Playdoh Counting Math Mats

  • Laminated number mats printed on cardstock for durability
  • Dough for making number and melon seeds.

6.Melon Playdoh Ten Frame

  • Laminated number mats
  • Dough for making the number (and representing the quantity in a ten frame)
  • Optional: manipulatives for showing the quantity instead of playdoh

7. Melon Playdoh How Many More To Make Ten

  • Dough Laminated number mats on cardstock for durability
  • Dough Dry erase markers
  • Mr. Clean Magic Erasers for erasing (optional)
  • Manipulatives (Optional if you wish to use something other than dough: pompoms, buttons or seasonal manipulatives.)

8.Playdoh Fill the Fish Tank, Set the Table, Build a Cone

  • Playdoh or homemade dough in various colors
  • Plastic dough extruders
  • Child size scissors
  • Laminated playdoh mats.

9.Summer Fun Playdoh Items (Ice cream, watermelon, sun, sunglasses, sand castle, lemonade)

  • Various colors of dough
  • Summer item cards laminated for durability

10.Summer Fun  Q-tip Painting (beach ball, sun, bucket/shovel, flip flop, sunglasses)

  • Q-tip picture sheets printed on white paper.
  • Q-tips
  • Washable tempura paint

11.Star-Spangled Sort and Count Items

  • Therapy putty
  • Small plastic red white and blue beads or buttons
  • Sorting Mat (included in this set)

12. Star-Spangled Color Find and Sort

  • Therapy putty
  • Small plastic  red white and blue beads
  • Sort and Graph Mat (included in this set)

13.Star-Spangled Color Sort, Graph and Count

  • Therapy putty
  • Small plastic red, white and blue stars or buttons
  • Sort graph and count mat option, printed on cardstock and laminated

14.Count Your Ice Cubes

  • Count Your Ice Cubes self-correcting cards printed on cardstock, laminated, and secured with a clothespin.
  • Count Your Ice Cubes playing mat printed on cardstock and laminated for durability. (One for each student. )
  • Tongs (optional)
  • Plastic ice cubes, white buttons, pompoms or marshmallows to represent ice cubes.

15.One More Ice Cube

  • Self-correcting cards printed on cardstock, laminated and secured with a clothespin.
  • Playing mat printed on cardstock and laminated for durability. Tongs (optional)
  • Plastic ice cubes, white buttons, pompoms or marshmallows to represent ice cubes.
  • Dry erase marker

16.One Less Ice Cube

  • Self-correcting cards printed on cardstock, laminated and secured with a clothespin.
  • Playing mat printed on cardstock and laminated for durability.
  • Plastic ice cubes, white buttons, pompoms or marshmallows to represent ice cubes.
  • Dry erase marker

17.Under The Sea for Numbers Spin To Win

  • Mini toy sea creatures with numbers written in permanent marker on the bottom.
  • Tongs
  • Spinner card
  • Optional: a small sand bucket or container
  • Optional: cd case and transparent spinner

18.Counting On Ants

  • Self-correcting cards printed on cardstock, laminated and secured with a clothespin.
  • Playing mat printed on cardstock and laminated for durability. (One for each student.)
  • Tongs
  • Plastic mini ants or little ants painted on flat white marbles (or you could use black pompoms, buttons or beads)
  • Dry erase marker

19.Counting Back Ants

  • Self-correcting cards printed on cardstock, laminated and secured with a clothespin.
  • Playing mat printed on cardstock and laminated for durability. (One for each student.)
  • Tongs
  • Plastic mini ants or little ants painted on flat white marbles (or you could use black pompoms, buttons or beads)
  • Dry erase marker

20.She Sells Sea Shells Missing Addend Self-Correcting Fun

  • Self-correcting missing addend cards
  • Bucket missing addend playing mats (one for each player)
  • Tongs
  • Shells

21.Summer Fun Sticker Count (ice cream cone, fish, sand bucket, star)

  • Sticker recording sheet printed on paper. One for each child. (There are two to choose from.)
  • One sheet allows students to trace and total up all the stickers used.
  • One sheet allows you to place a specific sticker next to a box. Students use those three types to outline the template and then count up the individual stickers of each type and record the number next to the sticker in the box.
  • Small thematic stickers or any small stickers you can find.

22. Fishy Addition Printable Book

  • Watercolor stamps
  • Black pen
  • Fish Bowl Addition booklet (included in this packet)

23.Summer Yummy Gel Bead Sort

  • Gel beads in same colors as cookie cutters
  • Thematic cookie cutters
  • Light Table (optional)

24.Summer Yummy Gel Bead Roll and Win

  • Thematic cookie cutters
  • Gel beads in thematic colors
  • Dice (It’s easy to differentiate this activity just by changing the number or type of dice you use.)
  • Light Table (optional)

25.Garden  Lego Challenge:  ice cream, fish, sun

  • Small Lego bases
  • Lego Creation Cards
    • Ice cream
    • fish
    • sun
  • Legos in various colors

26.Star-Spangled Constructing Letters and Words

  • Transparent red, white and blue stars (Hobby Lobby) or transparent flat marbles
  • Star-Spangled Letter or Word Cards
  • Light Table (optional)

28.Fishy Container Count

  • Small Dollar mini white Surerite containers or another small container with fish painted on top.
  • Small mini fish, erasers, buttons, beads, or yellow pompoms
  • Recording mat printed on cardstock and laminated

29. Fishy Container Addition

  • Small Dollar mini white Surerite containers (Dollar Tree) or another small container with fish painted on top.
  • Small mini orange and bluefish, erasers, buttons, beads, or yellow pompoms
  • Recording mat printed on cardstock and laminated

30.Seashell Blooming Lowercase/Capital Matching Puzzles

  • Small sensory bin with fun thematic filler and polypropylene beads
  • Capital/Lowercase Letter puzzles printed  on one color of cardstock, laminated and cut apart

31. Seashell Letter Sounds Matching Puzzles

  • Small sensory bin with fun thematic filler and polypropylene beads
  • Lowercase/Beginning Letter Sounds puzzles printed on one color of cardstock, laminated and cut apart.

32.Seashell CVC Words Matching Puzzles

  • Small sensory bin with thematic filler and polypropylene beads
  • CVC/Picture puzzle pieces printed on cardstock and laminated for durability.

33.Seashell Digraph Word Match Puzzles

  • Small sensory bin with thematic filler and polypropylene beads
  • Digraph/Picture puzzles pieces printed on cardstock and laminated for durability.

34.Fishy  Patterns Self-correcting

  • Colorful plastic fish, fish beads or buttons
  • Playing mat printed on cardstock and laminated
  • Self-correcting cards printed on cardstock, laminated and folded to hide the answer.
  • Clothespins (fun thematic foamy or item hot glued to clothespin optional)
  • Tongs or tweezers for moving items

35.Under The Sea Letter Match Up

  • Rubber fish (You can get these at Dollar Tree or there are some available thru Amazon.) or small toy fish that are programmed with sight words of your choice.
  • One editable playing mat per student at a station with your selected letters (Included in this set.)
  • Tongs
  • Sensory bin with seasonal items (optional)

36.Under The Sea Word Match Up

  • Rubber fish (You can get these at Dollar Tree or there are some available thru Amazon.) or small toy fish that are programmed with sight words of your choice.
  • One editable playing mat per student at a station with your selected sight words. (Included in this set.)
  • Tongs
  • Sensory bin with seasonal items (optional)

37.Feed Your Fish Math

  • Math equation flies (included in this set)
  • Sensory bin with thematic items.
  • Frog heads with numbers 0-10 on them. Cut these out and place them on bucket or box so students can feed the frog thru the mouth.)

38.Sea Shell Addition Self-correcting Cards

  • Small seashells
  • Self-correcting addition  cards
  • Seashell Addition mats
  • Clothing pins

39.Sea Shell Subtraction Self-correcting Cards

  • Small seashells
  • Self-correcting subtraction cards
  • Seashell Subtraction mats
  • Clothing pins

40.Ice cream and Popsicle Addition to 10 Self-Correcting Cards and Mat

  • Small popsicle and ice cream erasers, beads or small flat marbles with ice cream cones and popsicles painted on the top. Self-correcting cards
  • Scooping up Addition Mats
  • Clothes Pins

41. Fish Bowl I Spy Editable Sight Words and Record

  • I-Spy Mats and recording sheets laminated for durability
  • Magnifying glasses
  • Dry erase markers

42. Star-Spangled Straw Cut Up and Necklaces

  • Red, white and blue straws
    • I purchased plastic ones at a local department store in Michigan (Meijers) and the star ones from Hobby Lobby
  • Ribbon
  • Scissors

43.  Star-Spangled Addition

  • Star hole punches
  • Red and blue paper from Astrobrights
  • Glue
  • Star-Spangled Addition Books
 Marsha McGuire profile photo Welcome to Differentiated Kindergarten! I’m Marsha, a teacher-mom committed to the journey of creating a differentiated classroom for my students. It’s my goal to meet the needs of all my students through fun, engaging and developmentally appropriate activities.
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