Age-appropriate Christmas-themed activities and ideas to use in the kindergarten classroom.
Work on subtracting within five with a free printable game. Grab this free subtraction bump game to build your students’ subtraction fluency skills. In kindergarten, students should be able to add and subtract fluently within five. This easy-to-play game focuses on that skill and makes it fun. This Grinchy subtraction game is perfect to use…
Give your students lots of opportunities to explore place value concepts like composing and decomposing numbers 11-19 in kindergarten. When you give them hands-on practice over and over they form solid foundations about numbers that lead to incredible results. It truly is amazing what they can do in kindergarten and how they can work through…
Fill your lesson plans in December with fun, standards-based learning opportunities. Here is a free download to practice composing teen numbers (11-19) using groups of tens and ones. It’s my hope that you can integrate this free printable Christmas I Have, Who Has card game into your small group teaching in December. Teaching students to compose…
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…
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…
Finishing off my own Christmas shopping had me thinking about the perfect gift for a kindergarten teacher. Here is a fun list of teacher gifts from my own personal list, facebook teacher peeps and even my past colleagues. While you may want to share this on your own facebook page in hopes that your friends and…
Printable reindeer antlers that turn any kid into an adorable reindeer. These printable reindeer antler headbands are the perfect Christmas craft for a special Christmas program or party. Our school does a sing-around-the-tree on the last day of school before our winter break. It’s pretty neat and I like that it’s “old school.” My kinders…
Bring the Christmas fun into your read aloud times with these favorite Christmas books for kindergarten. These books for Christmas are the perfect fit for both fun and teaching standards-based content. Let’s dig into the best Christmas books for kindergarten. Affiliate links are included in this post. Christmas Books for Kindergarten If you read the Bear books…
December usually means a whole bunch of craziness in the classroom. Usually. In order to keep my whole month from feeling like this… I like to keep as much routine as possible and add just a dose of magic. It’s a winning combination. What’s the right amount of magic you say? It’s what I have lovingly…
When it comes to making Christmas gifts for parents, you may be wondering what can your kindergarteners make? Well, there is always Christmas ornaments that turn out to be great keepsakes! But there are a few other fun ideas that rank high in my mind as Christmas gifts kindergarteners can make for parents. I like…
I love using literature to inspire projects in our classroom. Here is how we create our own version of the 12 Days of Christmas and turn it into a class book and an audiobook. It’s a fantastic project to take on in December – we like to think of it as “The REAL 12 Days…
Christmas is here! Let’s celebrate by making keepsake kindergarten ornaments that your students’ parents will hang on their tree year after year. I’ve got a classic kindergarten hand print ornament that has simple steps and turns out precious. Plus, I’ll share three more ornament ideas for kindergarten with you in case you’re looking for something…