Kindergarten Lesson Plans

Wonderful World of Worms

Squirm with worms! In this interactive lesson, students will work with live worms to learn about measurement and living things.

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Comparing Numbers: Marshmallow Math

Comparing Numbers: Marshmallow Math Lesson Plan Comparing Numbers: Marshmallow Math

Comparing numbers is sweet with this yummy lesson. Students use cereal as a hands on manipulative to compare numbers 0–10. A sweet treat remains for a job well done!

Kindergarten Lesson Plan

Matching Numbers

Matching Numbers Lesson Plan Matching Numbers

Teach your class about the relationship between numbers and quantities with this lesson that has students use their counting skills to match a number of objects with their written value.

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Read with Beads

Read with Beads Lesson Plan Read with Beads

Build words with this fun lesson for emergent readers. Using beads and pipe cleaners, your students will enjoy working with manipulatives to create three- and four-letter words!

Kindergarten Reading & Writing Lesson Plan

Number Jump!

Number Jump! Lesson Plan Number Jump!

Help your class “jump” into number recognition with confidence! In this lesson, students will write numbers on sticky notes, place them in sequential order, and “jump” on the numbers while counting.

Kindergarten Lesson Plan

Catch Those Fish!

Catch Those Fish! Lesson Plan Catch Those Fish!

Catch those fish before they get away! In this lesson, students will be challenged to order and count the total number of fish. This lesson focuses on the crucial skills of ordering numbers and recognizing one-to-one correspondence.

Kindergarten Lesson Plan

Categorize It!

Categorize It! Lesson Plan Categorize It!

By sorting and categorizing different objects, young learners will build important foundational skills. Your students will enjoy playing with different toys and competing some fun worksheets.

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Jack and Jill: Letters and Pictures

Jack and Jill: Letters and Pictures Lesson Plan Jack and Jill: Letters and Pictures

Who where those two kids who went up that hill again? This lesson plan includes role playing with a familiar nursery rhyme.

Reading & Writing Lesson Plan

Color It Out

Color It Out Lesson Plan Color It Out

Reading simple words can be a lot of work for young learners, but by adding in a cooperative game, everyone wins in this fun filled lesson. Students will be filled with pride as they master how to isolate sounds.

Kindergarten Reading & Writing Lesson Plan

Act it Out!

Act it Out! Lesson Plan Act it Out! Connect addition with real-world problem solving as students analyze and solve story problems. Kindergarten Lesson Plan

Celebrating Black History Month with the Sounds of African-American Music: Jazz and Hip-Hop

Celebrating Black History Month with the Sounds of African-American Music: Jazz and Hip-Hop Lesson Plan Celebrating Black History Month with the Sounds of African-American Music: Jazz and Hip-Hop

What do like to groove to? Bebop or hip-hop? In this Black History Month lesson plan, students will listen to and learn about two music genres heavily influenced by African-Americans. Then they will write about which genre they prefer.

Kindergarten Reading & Writing Lesson Plan

Mystery Numbers

Mystery Numbers Lesson Plan Mystery Numbers This mysterious math lesson introduces young learners to teen numbers and math vocabulary. Kindergarten Lesson Plan

Animal Vowels

Animal Vowels Lesson Plan Animal Vowels Have some fun sorting out short vowels in this animal-filled lesson! Reading & Writing Lesson Plan

Read, Read, Read!

Read, Read, Read! Lesson Plan Read, Read, Read!

Get your students ready for reading using this fun phonemic awareness lesson plan focused on the letter M!

Reading & Writing Lesson Plan

Adding Cards

Adding Cards Lesson Plan Adding Cards Use a fun card game to practice adding numbers in this fun hands-on addition lesson! Lesson Plan

Exploring Emotions

Exploring Emotions Lesson Plan Exploring Emotions

Emotions are natural and temporary, just like passing clouds, rain, or the shining sun. In this lesson, students learn how to be mindful of their emotions and discuss how emotions change, just like the weather.

Kindergarten Social emotional Lesson Plan

Range of Emotions

Range of Emotions Lesson Plan Range of Emotions

In this lesson, students will learn about how emotions change and will understand and discuss different feeling words for different emotions by associating emotions with colors, visuals, and a charades game.

Kindergarten Social emotional Lesson Plan

Reading Winners

Reading Winners Lesson Plan Reading Winners

Who will win the race? Help your class build essential pre-reading skills with a friendly competition. Your students will race to identify the author, illustrator, and understand all the parts of a book in this engaging lesson.

Kindergarten Reading & Writing Lesson Plan

We Love Bees!

We Love Bees! Lesson Plan We Love Bees! Students will be buzzing as they write and illustrate information about bees. Kindergarten Reading & Writing Lesson Plan

Shapes for Kindergarten!

Shapes for Kindergarten! Lesson Plan Shapes for Kindergarten!

Identifying shapes and colors will come easily to students after listening to songs, playing bingo, and coloring a worksheet!

Kindergarten Lesson Plan

Mixing Colors

Mixing Colors Lesson Plan Mixing Colors

Mixing Colors is a lesson plan that gives students a chance to explore the exciting process of combining primary colors to make secondary colors! This lesson is hands-on and filled with learning opportunities for students.

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Let's Choose Less

Let's Choose Less Lesson Plan Let's Choose Less

More or less? In this hands-on lesson, your students hone important fine motor skills and learn how to compare quantities.

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Phonics With The Very Hungry Caterpillar

Phonics With The Very Hungry Caterpillar Lesson Plan Phonics With The Very Hungry Caterpillar

Caterpillars and the hard C sound come together in this colorful lesson. With help from the ever-popular The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle, students will learn about metamorphosis while developing their phonics skills.

Reading & Writing Lesson Plan

Sorting Fun!

Sorting Fun! Lesson Plan Sorting Fun!

Introduce your class to the concept of sorting with this interactive lesson that encourages participation from your whole class!

Kindergarten Lesson Plan

Rolling Math

Rolling Math Lesson Plan Rolling Math

In this lesson, students will roll with numbers and identify what comes before and after a number. They will roll dice, add numbers and practice counting forward and backward from the sum.

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Solid Shapes: Identifying 3D Shapes

Solid Shapes: Identifying 3D Shapes Lesson Plan Solid Shapes: Identifying 3D Shapes

Introduce your students to 3D solid geometric shapes and encourage them explore their everyday space for these shapes. In this lesson, they will learn to look at a ball as a sphere!

Kindergarten Lesson Plan

Leafy Rhymes

Leafy Rhymes Lesson Plan Leafy Rhymes

Your students will love to see rhyming trees! They will manipulate letters to form different words that have the same rhyme. This lesson also integrates science and could be used to discuss parts of a plant or a tree.

Kindergarten Reading & Writing Lesson Plan

Is It the Same?

Is It the Same? Lesson Plan Is It the Same?

Students will enjoy this fast-paced lesson as they incorporate acting, reading, and detective work while learning how to use context clues in fiction.

Kindergarten Reading & Writing Lesson Plan

Spring Subtraction Equations

Spring Subtraction Equations Lesson Plan Spring Subtraction Equations

What comes after winter? Spring! What comes after the equals sign in a subtraction equation? The difference! In this spring lesson plan, students will look at a variety of spring-themed subtraction pictures and write matching equations.

Kindergarten Lesson Plan

Mindfulness: The Present Moment

Mindfulness: The Present Moment Lesson Plan Mindfulness: The Present Moment

Mindfulness 101! Students focus on the present moment using their senses to observe what is happening right now. They are introduced to the idea that mindfulness is about paying attention to the present.

Reading & Writing Lesson Plan

Kindergarten Lesson Plans

Education.com's kindergarten lesson plans help children grow to be effective learners as they build their self-confidence, sense of creativity, and practical skills that assist with reading, writing, and mathematics. Give your students a head start on essential elementary school skills with these kindergarten lesson plans, featuring simple instructions and fun themes.

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