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Center Activities: October Math And Literacy Centers

So you have your center management system in place. It’s October, and you’re ready to change centers, but what center activities do you put in your tubs/bins/centers? This post shows you the activities we use in October. Because our TKS centers are designed to be teacher—and kid-friendly, the kids will be able to grab an activity and do it without instruction. That’s the beauty of our center resources!

For more information on how I introduce centers, manage centers, and more, see the links at the end of this post.

What Types Of Center Activities And Games Do You Use?

  • matching (letters, numbers, counting)
  • puzzles (letters, numbers, counting)
  • spinners (letters, numbers)
  • word building/word writing

We’re continuing to differentiate centers, and we’re starting to really see that differentiation with one group focusing on sounds, two groups focusing on letter recognition, and one group working on sounds and letter recognition. And we still maintain that simplicity! That’s the beauty of TKS centers: they’re low prep and are flexible, so you can make the activities work in multiple ways 1 activity can be two or three or four different activities!

All of these resources are linked to our TKS Store but they are also available on TeachersPayTeachers. To find them on TPT, simply search by the name exactly as listed on the title pages seen below.

center activities for october

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Check out these videos where I show the activities and explain them:

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