Color the Star With the Right Sentence

Read every story and sentence aloud. Act out each one with a few small toys, moving the taken away ones aside, before your child marks the page.

Color the star with the sentence that tells how many butterflies fly away, like 5 take away 3. The directions on the page read: Look at the butterflies on the grass. The butterflies up high fly away. An adult reads the number sentences on the stars. Color the star with the number sentence that tells about the butterflies. The page opens with a worked example.

Yes, both. We made it for Preschool subtraction, and the page works the same whether it lands on a kitchen table or a center rotation. At home, most families go through it together and talk the answers out loud, and that talking is where most of the learning happens with subtract within 5. In class it runs well as independent work while you pull a small group. Print one copy or thirty, whichever the day needs.

25 printable worksheets, all free to preview. Downloads are included with a ClassWeekly free trial, and every page prints on standard 8.5 x 11 paper.

These are written for preschool children, roughly ages 3-5. Start with the first few pages, use the free preview to judge the fit, and come back to harder ones as your child gets steadier.

No. Most pages ask children to circle, trace, match, color, or cut and paste, and a few ask for a single number. A grown-up can read the instructions aloud, so children do not need to read yet.