Make learning the cool thing to do in your classroom with fun, age-appropriate lessons and activities for kindergarten.
Find activities for holidays, favorite kindergarten Youtube videos, literacy centers and ideas to make learning come alive.
Don’t just teach with worksheets – bring the hands-on, engaging, and play-like fun into your classroom!
Celebrate the 100th day of school with a cute, free 100th day of school photo. Use this free photo overlay to make pictures of your students extra special on the 100th day of kindergarten. While I like to plan a not-so-crazy 100th day of school (or really how I plan any non-major holiday), it can…
Let’s get into the Christmas spirit with a free printable sight word battleship game for kindergarten. This Christmas sight word battleship game is easy to use with beginning readers. It’s time to keep the focus on learning but sprinkling in the Christmas fun! If you know me, I like to work smart. That means we…
Keep your phonics time fresh by building in a phonics video every now and then. Here are 16 phonics videos that are designed for kindergarten-aged students who are learning their letter sounds, learning to read and working on building letter-sound fluency. Most of these videos cover the entire alphabet in one 2-3 minute video but…
Bring Thanksgiving to life with kindergarten Thanksgiving videos. Here is a collection of favorite Thanksgiving videos for kindergarten. Whatever you need – here are Thanksgiving-themed books read aloud, brain break videos, and some learning videos that can help you teach. Thanksgiving-themed stories These stories are good read-alouds for Thanksgiving. They are fun and keep the…
Conferences, Halloween and then we run straight into Thanksgiving. Before we know it Christmas will be here! Make going from holiday to Holiday easier with these fun Thanksgiving activities for kindergarten. You’ll love that they are easy to pull together. These are all free kindergarten Thanksgiving activities, printables, worksheets or online read-alouds I have found…
Make an emergent reader using handprints and fingerprints to recreate the life cycle of a pumpkin. Here is a free mini-book to print and use in kindergarten. There is so much to cover when fall hits in the classroom. It’s a perfect time to cover favorite science topics like apples and pumpkins because, for many…
Let’s find fun ideas from kindergarten teachers to use in the kindergarten classroom for Halloween. Here are some awesome Halloween activities, ideas and read-aloud books for kindergarten. Whether you’re planning a Halloween classroom party or just want to know what other teachers do to celebrate Halloween in kindergarten, then this list can help. Let’s start with easy…
Learn to identify 2D shapes in kindergarten with this free roll-a-shape activity. Kindergarten students need to get familiar with basic 2D shapes like the rectangle, square, triangle, hexagon, circle and triangle right away. Here is a free beginning-of-the-year activity kinders can use to practice recognizing shapes. Let’s go over what teaching 2D shapes looks like…
Introduce how to describe 2D shapes by simply using dots and lines. Here is a free printable booklet to describe the attributes of 2D shapes for kindergarten. Let me share why it works, how I used it and how to make it for your classroom. Why it works This little mini-book could be called a…
Make cute end of the year photos for your kindergarten students. Here’s how to photograph, make and print personalized photos for each of the kiddos in your class. It’s fun to do a special thing or two to celebrate the end of the school year. I think this “My Kindergarten Favorites” overlay is a fun…
You can create a playdough literacy center that lasts all year long. This is how I set up, organized, and maintained a playdough word work center in my kindergarten classroom. First, can I explain that it’s my belief that students learn faster and are more successful when they can manipulate things. This same belief applies…
Making class books is a favorite kindergarten activity of mine. Here is a free Dr. Seuss “There’s a Wocket in My Pocket” themed class book template you can make with your class. This activity is all about enjoying the rhymes of Dr. Seuss and recreating our own as a class. Let me share our interactive…
Teaching handwriting in kindergarten can be simplified with these quick tips. Here’s what you need to know when you’re teaching five and six-year-olds how to write. These tips will work with whatever way you teach students to write in kindergarten. However, I believe that they will work extremely well when combined with this simple approach…
Keep track of the letters kindergartners can write correctly with this simple system. Here’s how I tracked my kindergarten students and helped them print 100% of their letters correctly… without wanting to pull my hair out. A while back I shared how I teach handwriting in kindergarten. My approach is simple and breaks handwriting down…
Teach handwriting in kindergarten by starting early and working smart. Here are the four basics to teaching handwriting in kindergarten — so that all students can form letters successfully and without stacks of worksheets. At first, I’ll admit, I was frustrated by being told to teach handwriting when the common core standards rolled out. These…
This Valentine’s Day card collection keepsake book is a free printable that will allow your students to collect their Valentine cards all in one place. I wanted to make sure if you hadn’t already gotten your hands on a copy that you could with plenty of time to make copies before Valentine’s Day! This is such a cute and…
Make a sweet Mother’s Day present with your kindergartners. This free photo overlay will be a cherished Mother’s Day kindergarten gift. With spring in the air and the end of the year around the corner – it’s time to put together a quick Mother’s Day gift for kindergartners to give to their mamas. This fresh…
It’s the new year and the 100th day of school is upon us! Most schools celebrate the 100th day of school in Mid-January to Mid-February – so let’s dig into some fun resources to enjoy the 100th day in kindergarten. I plan to list some free learning activities, printables that are fun and a few…
Are you gearing up for the 100th day of school in kindergarten? I am working here behind the scenes to help you pull off a fun and learning-filled day. I’ve got some freebies to share as a result. It’s my goal on KindergartenWorks to have your back – by helping you keep the beauty in…
If you’re like me, we can’t spend the entire 100th day of school counting things. That feels monotonous… even though it’s just for a day. Here is a fun writing activity you can plan for your 100th day of school festivities. It’s a perfect activity to break up counting to 100 but still plays off…
Teach color words with the ever-popular frog street press color songs. Here are the top color word songs on video, in my opinion, for kindergarten. I don’t know about you but we used these songs repeatedly to teach how to spell color words in kindergarten. In fact, I love using songs so much that I…
Are you planning for Christmas in your classroom? Here is a collection of favorite Christmas videos for kindergarten. These are YouTube videos that aren’t too long and can hold the attention span of a five and six year old. I’ve found audio books, brain breaks and how to say Merry Christmas in different languages you’ll want to show…
Get working on sight words with this free Christmas pokey pinning activity for kindergarten. You’ll love how easy it is to work on fine motor skills at the same time as sight words for your kindergarten class. We can get so busy during the Holiday season in a kindergarten classroom. There’s so much we’d like…
Whenever we create gifts for parents for holidays like Christmas, Mother’s Day or Father’s Day we like to wrap our presents. This year we are wrapping our holiday calendars them using this cute reindeer brown paper bag design. This is a cute picture tutorial from an idea that I got online. Students to use lunch sized brown…