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!
Cupcake Crunch is a super easy snack to make for a classroom snack on Valentine’s Day. Here’s how to create this easy snack for your Valentine’s party. This cupcake crunch recipe is a snack mix that’s both easy and very popular with young kiddos. Let me show you how to make it and give you…
Work on decomposing numbers 11-19 by breaking numbers into groups of tens and ones. Here is a free Valentine-themed printable workmat and matching number cards that you can use with your kindergarten class. Let me show you how to use it, make it and give you some ideas on how to get the most from…
Let’s plan fun Valentine’s day activities for the kindergarten classroom. Here are free mini-projects, reading resources, sight word activities, and math mats – all with a Valentine’s Day theme. Don’t feel like just because there are a lot of fun Valentine’s Day ideas for the classroom out there that you have to do a lot….
Want to find kindergarten-friendly videos that hit the mark in time for learning about dental health? Here is a list of teacher-recommended videos for teaching about brushing teeth. It can be fun to change up our normal routine in the classroom (or via distance learning) for February (when most teachers cover dental health) and add a video…
Find creative uses for worksheets in the kindergarten classroom – that don’t stick to paper-and-pencil only practice. Here is why I don’t love worksheets in kindergarten (or any grade level for that matter) and five ways that you can still use your favorite worksheets in ways that are more age-appropriate. Why I loathe worksheets You’ve…
When it’s time to come back from winter break or Christmas break – it’s time to hit the ground running in kindergarten. There is explosive growth that happens from now until the spring in both reading and math. Let’s capitalize on that learning-growth spurt and plan some great winter kindergarten activities. Here are winter-themed math,…
Want to find kindergarten-friendly learning videos that are a hit with your class of five and six-year-olds? Then you’ve got to check out this list of teacher-recommended videos that are all made by Harry Kindergarten. The video creator “Harry Kindergarten” is pretty well known in the land of kindergarten teachers because he often uses a hip-hop style…
Want to find kindergarten-friendly videos that hit the mark in October? Here is a list of teacher-recommended videos for Halloween. It can be fun to change up our normal routine in the classroom on a holiday and add a video or two into our lesson plans. For example, you just might need a learning video that can…
Work on letter identification and visual discrimination with these alphabet sheets. Here is a set of free letter worksheets for students to highlight the letter and name it. I would use these letter sheets whenever a student was really struggling to name a specific letter. Most often, it was a quick activity we did during…
Work on naming letters with a simple alphabet game for kindergarten. Print this free pirate-themed treasure quest card game to practice naming the letters of the alphabet. Since I like to play games in my small groups during guided reading time, this one is definitely in the rotation when it comes to working on recognizing…
Go on an alphabet search and play I-Spy. Here is a free naming letters activity for kindergarten that encourages students to find and name letters in the alphabet. Playing I spy is fun and can be adapted for the classroom. This printable activity has students use a magnifying glass to look for miniscule letters on…
Make a big green monster with your kindergarten class. This fun art project is a way to extend Ed Emberly’s story Go Away, Big Green Monster! This is a project that came from Krissy Miner. She was a dear blogging friend who shared this on her own site once upon a time. This activity will…
Make end of the year memories together on the last day of kindergarten. Here is a free printable memory banner that can be a photo prop, coloring page or a last day of school art project. The end of the year is a busy time for teachers. Then comes the last day and we are…
The end of the school year brings lots of work and pulling a year’s worth of learning together. Learning about each other, life, academics, problem solving and more. How can a kindergarten teacher use activities to help pull it together? Here is one idea where the finished product is more for the parents but is…
Monster Munch is a super easy snack to make for a classroom snack on Halloween. Here’s how to create this easy snack for your Halloween party. This monster munch recipe is a snack mix that’s both easy and very popular with kindergarteners. Let me show you how to make it and give you a freebie…
Want to find kindergarten-friendly videos that hit the mark in April? Here is a list of teacher-recommended videos for Earth Day. It can be fun to change up our normal routine in the classroom (or via distance learning) for Earth Day and add a video or two into our lesson plans. For example, you just might need…
As kindergarten teachers, we do our best to plan lessons, activities, and tasks that help our students learn. While doing this over the internet definitely looks different for distance learning or remote learning – the nature of what we are doing is really still the same. So here is a list of things kindergartners can…
Want to find kindergarten-friendly videos that hit the mark in March? Here is a list of teacher-recommended videos for St. Patrick’s Day. It can be fun to change up our normal routine in the classroom on a holiday and add a video or two into our lesson plans. For example, you just might need a learning video…
Play a St. Patrick’s Day-themed word work game with your beginning readers. This free spinner game is perfect for guided reading groups. This is one of fourteen freebies I recommend for St. Patrick’s Day in kindergarten. It’s important for kindergarten students to be able to substitute individual sounds of simple one-syllable words. This activity will…
Let’s plan fun St. Patrick’s day activities for the kindergarten classroom. Here are free mini-projects, reading resources, sight word activities, and math mats – all with a St. Paddy’s Day theme. Don’t feel like just because there are a lot of fun St. Patrick’s Day ideas for the classroom out there that you have to…
Enjoy some reading fun with these activities to go along with Dr. Seuss books. Whether you’re doing an author study, celebrating Read Across America or Dr. Seuss’ birthday these ideas are classroom-tested and teacher-approved. Let’s look at some Dr. Seuss free printables for kindergarten, hands-on science activities and a couple of art projects to round…
Find kindergarten-friendly videos that hit the mark in January. Here is a list of teacher-recommended videos for January. Let’s face it. For many of us – especially in the Midwest – it’s essential to have a handful of favorite learning videos during January. January usually means endless days of indoor recess and built up excess…
Good morning. I wanted to invite you into a day in the life of… me, a kindergarten teacher… in my classroom. This is also the skeleton of our daily routine and schedule since many of you have asked for it. Please note that our schedule changes every year and I’m not afraid to even change…
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…