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Spring Worksheets

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Rain, flowers, bees and baby animals on pages that practice real skills: counting, patterns, letter sounds, word problems, reading and writing.

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Spring activities for preschool

Spring pages for preschool: a rainy-day coloring page, picture paths to trace, counting to 5, I spy, patterns with a cut-and-paste version, big and small, and a caterpillar playdough mat. Plus an easy bee maze and dot marker rain.

Spring worksheets for kindergarten

Kindergarten spring pages: count and write, picture addition, beginning sounds, CVC words, word tracing, a garden writing prompt, a rainy-day story to put in order (cut and paste or no-cut) and a big word search. Plus an In the Spring writing page, a spring rain poem and a rainy-day read-aloud.

Spring worksheets for 1st grade

Spring addition, comparing numbers and story problems, a nonfiction passage about signs of spring, a rainy-day story prompt, spring vocabulary and a weather tally chart. Plus a spring word search.

Print at 100% (actual size) for the cleanest tracing lines.

About these spring worksheets

These spring worksheets bring rain clouds, tulips, bees, ducklings and kites into everyday practice. Preschoolers color a rainy day, trace picture paths, count to 5, find patterns and build a playdough caterpillar. Kindergartners count and write, add with pictures, hear first sounds, write CVC words, put a rainy-day story in order and plan a spring garden. 1st graders solve spring word problems, add within 20, compare numbers, read a short passage about signs of spring and keep a weather tally chart.

Use them from the first warm days of March through May, alongside a nature walk, a seed-planting project or a rainy-day indoor recess. For the science behind the season, see the Seasons, Weather, Plant Life Cycle and Butterfly Life Cycle pages.

Every page is black and white, prints on US Letter or A4, and pages with one right answer have an answer key on page 2.

Standards

  • ELOF P-MATH 2Child recognizes the number of objects in a small set.
  • ELOF P-MATH 7Child understands simple patterns.
  • ELOF P-MATH 8Child measures objects by their various attributes using standard and non-standard measurement. Uses differences in attributes to make comparisons.
  • ELOF P-PMP 3Child demonstrates increasing control, strength, and coordination of small muscles.
  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.K.1.APrint many upper- and lowercase letters.
  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.K.2.CWrite a letter or letters for most consonant and short-vowel sounds (phonemes).
  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.K.2.DSpell simple words phonetically, drawing on knowledge of sound-letter relationships.
  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.K.1.BRecognize that spoken words are represented in written language by specific sequences of letters.
  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.K.2With prompting and support, retell familiar stories, including key details.
  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.K.2Use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to compose informative/explanatory texts in which they name what they are writing about and supply some information about the topic.
  • CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.K.CC.B.5Count to answer "how many?" questions about as many as 20 things arranged in a line, a rectangular array, or a circle, or as many as 10 things in a scattered configuration; given a number from 1–20, count out that many objects.
  • CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.K.OA.A.1Represent addition and subtraction with objects, fingers, mental images, drawings, sounds (e.g., claps), acting out situations, verbal explanations, expressions, or equations.
  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.1.6Use words and phrases acquired through conversations, reading and being read to, and responding to texts, including using frequently occurring conjunctions to signal simple relationships (e.g., because).
  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.1.1Ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.1.3Write narratives in which they recount two or more appropriately sequenced events, include some details regarding what happened, use temporal words to signal event order, and provide some sense of closure.
  • CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.1.MD.C.4Organize, represent, and interpret data with up to three categories; ask and answer questions about the total number of data points, how many in each category, and how many more or less are in one category than in another.
  • CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.1.NBT.B.3Compare two two-digit numbers based on meanings of the tens and ones digits, recording the results of comparisons with the symbols >, =, and <.
  • CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.1.OA.A.1Use addition and subtraction within 20 to solve word problems involving situations of adding to, taking from, putting together, taking apart, and comparing, with unknowns in all positions, e.g., by using objects, drawings, and equations with a symbol for the unknown number to represent the problem.
  • CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.1.OA.C.6Add and subtract within 20, demonstrating fluency for addition and subtraction within 10. Use strategies such as counting on; making ten (e.g., 8 + 6 = 8 + 2 + 4 = 10 + 4 = 14); decomposing a number leading to a ten (e.g., 13 - 4 = 13 - 3 - 1 = 10 - 1 = 9); using the relationship between addition and subtraction (e.g., knowing that 8 + 4 = 12, one knows 12 - 8 = 4); and creating equivalent but easier or known sums (e.g., adding 6 + 7 by creating the known equivalent 6 + 6 + 1 = 12 + 1 = 13).

How to use them

  1. Pick the group for your child's grade. Each one mixes math, reading, writing and fine motor work, so a page a day makes an easy spring routine.
  2. Take a short spring walk first. Look for buds, birds, bugs and puddles, then name the same things on the page.
  3. For the cut and paste pages, the no-cut version covers the same skill with a pencil or crayon instead of scissors.
  4. Pair the 1st grade weather tally chart with a real two-week weather watch out the classroom window.

Teaching tips

  • Preschool: keep it short. One page with lots of talk is plenty. Name each picture together before counting or tracing.
  • Kindergarten: on beginning sounds, say the word slowly and stretch the first sound ("bbbee") before your child writes the letter.
  • 1st grade: on word problems, ask your child to draw the story first, then write the number sentence.
  • Reuse the trace-the-path and pattern pages in a sheet protector with a dry-erase marker.

Questions teachers and parents ask

When should I use spring worksheets?

From March through May. They fit the first warm weeks of spring, a unit on plants, weather or baby animals, and the weeks before and after spring break.

Do the spring worksheets cover real skills?

Yes. Every page practices a grade skill: counting, patterns and fine motor work in preschool, counting, addition, letter sounds and CVC words in kindergarten, and addition, word problems, comparing numbers, reading and writing in 1st grade.

Is there an answer key?

Yes. Every page with one right answer has an answer key on page 2. Coloring, tracing, playdough and writing pages do not need one.

Are there St. Patrick's Day, Easter and Earth Day pages too?

Yes. Each spring holiday has its own page with preschool, kindergarten and 1st grade worksheets: St. Patrick's Day, Easter, Earth Day, Mother's Day and Father's Day.