Free kindergarten teacher resources to print and use. For personal use only.
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Create your own distance learning lesson plans with this free template. Make navigation easy and simple for your kindergarten students and their parents. This free eLearning template is designed for kindergarten (though it could also work for other grades) and uses Google Slides. Let me show you how it works, how to use it, and…
Let’s skip the search and go straight for the most helpful free online games for kindergarten. If you’re in the midst of planning for distance learning or staring down a possible future of eLearning lesson plans, then use these free games and activities online to help you keep your lesson plans engaging for students. Let’s…
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…
Let’s talk about when you should teach each of the math standards in kindergarten. Your curriculum guide may have it all laid out for you, but if it doesn’t or if you teach using a guided math format you may need to decide this for yourself. To help make this easier – let’s first cover which standards…
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…
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…
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…
Fun and simple ideas for classroom management are often found from the best resource available to teachers: other teachers! I’ve asked my Facebook readers to share their hallway transitions to help make your classroom management even easier. Here are their top hallway transition procedures and classroom management ideas. You’re gonna love these ideas. I’m sure…
A teacher planning binder is the ultimate way to customize lesson planning to your needs and keep everything at your fingertips. Every teacher planning binder deserves a cute cover. Here are four, free printable binder covers. You’ll simply need to print your favorite and slip the cover into your lesson planning binder. While what I…
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…
In kindergarten, students are expected to describe shapes like a circle, square, hexagon and triangle with the number of sides and vertices. What’s a fun, smart way to get them practicing this skill? A game. Here is a free 2D shapes game where students feel and describe shapes with a partner. Let me share how…
While I think using a classic game like bingo isn’t always the most effective way to teach a classroom skill – I do think you can give it a twist and make it worthy of small group time. Here is a free describing 2D shapes bingo game I created that is worthy of such instructional…
Classroom procedures play a huge role in a kindergarten teacher‘s day. Wouldn’t you agree? Here is one of my top tips on how to teach kindergarten classroom procedures for using the bathroom in our classroom. My solution to teach how to properly use the restroom in our classroom on the first day of school (and…
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…
Let’s countdown to the last day of school! Use this free, editable ABC countdown calendar to plan fun events and inform parents of what you’ve planned for the last 26 days of the school year. The amount of craziness and sheer busyness that accompanies that last few weeks of school is comparable to getting ready…
It’s the end of the school year and it’s time to celebrate the end of kindergarten. Here are free kindergarten diplomas and kindergarten completion certificates that you can download instantly and print. My kindergarten students never actually had a graduation ceremony (with all of the fanfare you might be planning for your own celebration) –…
My students need to know sight words. They are a key step in the reading process. They aren’t the end-all-be-all, but they do play an important role in learning how to read in kindergarten. Here is one mini-lesson I do – I call it a warm-up activity – with my guided reading groups. Let me…
Make your teaching life a little easier with these kindergarten teacher-friendly fonts. Do you make your own worksheets, workmats, or printables for your classroom? If so – then I’ve got your back on this one. Teachers create stuff to use in their classrooms ALL.THE.TIME! Why do we do this year after year? Is it an…