Blake’s Learning Centres are a wonderful, motivating way for students to practise important skills. The 10 centres in this downloadable PDF resource are self-contained and portable, and students can work individually or in a group. Once you’ve made the centres, they are ready to use at any time.

This downloadable PDF resource contains full-colour materials to construct 10 easy-to-make centres. A Teacher Instructions page is included with each centre, as well as a Centre Checklist for recording students’ progress.

The centres contain:

• student directions/cover page 
• task cards and/or mat(s) 
• reproducible written practice sheets 
• answer key

Each centre supports the Australian Mathematics Curriculum for Year 1 by providing fun practice in key maths skills.

These include:

• sequencing numbers within 120
• knowing place values in two-digit numbers
• skip counting by 2s, 5s and 10s
• solving simple subtraction and addition problems
• dividing shapes into two or four equal parts 
• telling time to the hour and half hour