Free kindergarten teacher resources to print and use. For personal use only.
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No David by David Shannon is a classic book to read in kindergarten (and first grade honestly). Here are free No David activities, videos and book ideas listed all in one place so you don’t have to go digging to look for them. I’ll include more ideas for other No David books too. Be sure…
There comes a time we all need emergency sub plans for kindergarten. Here are free beginning of the year emergency sub plans for kindergarten that you can prep in advance. You can stash your plans, papers and read aloud all together and sleep better knowing if you have to call it in, you’re all set. Because…
Collecting money in kindergarten just got easy! How to collect and track money for special events, field trips and more without losing your sanity. We seriously have so many times that we collect money in the classroom. In kindergarten, it can be tricky to collect money, know who you collected it from and how much….
Teaching shapes to kindergarten is part of many standards-based curriculums. When you teach 2D shapes, you’re covering some basic geometry skills your kinders will build from for years to come. Let’s look at how to teach 2D shapes and dig into some 2d shape activities and games to help you cover this topic. How to…
Are you on the hunt for a good January read aloud or set of sub plans? Here are resources to teach Sneezy the Snowman in kindergarten. You could plug and play these into your winter theme lesson plans or they can stand alone as a set of plans for a substitute teacher. Sneezy the snowman…
Wintertime lasts anywhere from October to April for us in Indiana. Needless to say, being prepared as a teacher for winter and winter gear makes my life easier, saves instructional time, and ends up teaching my kinders organizational skills. Here are my sanity-saving tips broken down for you and I’ve included a free printable to…
Learning how to read means learning lots of intertwining skills – like beginning sounds. Here is my list of my top teaching printables and favorite free resources that I used this year in my guided reading groups. Let me share why I use them and how you can use them in your classroom too. How and why I use these…
Keeping higher readers in kindergarten challenged appropriately doesn’t mean more work, or even more {{uuugh}} worksheets. Far from it! In our classroom it means working on the next level of skills or working more in-depth. Here is one example of a game we played in our guided reading groups to help higher readers stay challenged….
Make reading in small groups easier with a reading strategy checklist. Here is a free checklist I’ve made for guided reading groups to communicate what I’m seeing with kindergarten parents. When reading with small groups, documenting what strategies students try is a great way to both informally assess and help guide your own planning. We teachers have…
The Kissing Hand is a classic book for many kindergarten and elementary classrooms on the first day of school. Here are Kissing Hand freebies, activities, videos, and books listed all in one place so you won’t have to go digging to look for them. Be sure to click on the name of each Kissing Hand freebie to see where it came…
Here is a measurement activity for kindergarten. This free measuring activity uses a printable and some linking cubes – which I’m sure you probably already have on hand in your classroom. During the first week or two of school, I’d read the book (affiliate) Titch by Pat Hutchins. It’s a simple read aloud and I like to…
I like working smart and one way I found to do that was by making sets of handy charts to use during guided groups. You can do this too – using your favorite materials! For my kindergarten classes – with a wide range of non-readers to second grade reading levels, that included working from the alphabet to learning…
When it comes to shopping at the Dollar Tree, I’m always looking for ways to keep the fun in standards-based kindergarten activities. Here are six activities that are perfect to use in kindergarten that makes it really inexpensive and still engaging to teach reading skills. These activities cover starting with the alphabet, to sight words to…
Things end up on the floor. Always. Every day. It’s a fact of life when you’re doing learning all day long with lots of little bodies and different personalities, learning styles and levels of responsibility. So, what’s a teacher to do with all of those floor-found things? How about NOTHING? That’s right. I highly recommend…
Describing 3D shapes in kindergarten is now an expectation as it is a key geometry standard. This standard focuses on four main 3D shapes: cylinder sphere cube cone Students should be able to describe the faces, vertices, and edges of each shape. So, what are some 3D shapes activities for kindergarten and resources for practicing…
Work on addition and subtraction in kindergarten by playing games. Here is a collection of 11 free bump gameboards that kindergarteners can use to build their math skills. Bump-style games are perfect for kindergarten because they can be played by a single player or they can be a partner game. These games I’ve made practice these…
My literacy centers are a core part of our kindergarten schedule. They are active literacy centers that keep us on our toes and working so that I can work with small groups. Today, let me share my kindergarten retell literacy center directions, expectations and a list of the 20 stories that make up this year-long center in our…
Work on identifying 3D shapes or describing 3D shapes with a free printable bingo game for kindergarten. Here is a bingo game that I made for my kindergarten class to play in small groups. Let me show you how to play it, how to make it, and give you the free download. Bingo is such…
Organize your classroom stash of books with a system that is easy to keep up. Here are the four things you can do to get a classroom library setup, organized, and add new books to so that your library will work for you. One of the most daunting tasks I’ve ever taken on in organizing…
When it comes to winding down the school year, there are lots of fun ways to celebrate a year of learning together. Here are my favorite end of the year celebrations for kindergarten and kindergarten graduation alternatives. You can make any of these ideas as simple as you want or you can go all out…
How is it that some calendar dates can totally just creep up on you – leaving you feeling a little unprepared?! Earth Day always felt like one of those dates… and Groundhog Day for that matter too. So, here is a go-to list of kindergarten Earth Day resources and activities that require little to no prep…
Teach kindergarten writers how to write books by reading aloud and dissecting stories. When teaching reading – one of my favorite things was to connect it to writing. I wanted my kindergarten writers to view books created by published authors not as these mystical things that are put together somehow, in some format that makes it…
Practice ending sounds while teaching kindergarten readers in small groups. Here are my favorite free ending sounds activities for kindergarten. During my guided reading sessions, I usually like to plan a warm-up activity that works on a skill my kindergartners need. Sometimes that’s working on alphabet identification, isolating beginning sounds, or even segmenting and blending…
Let’s teach kindergarteners how to sort with some creative ideas that are easy to implement. Here are sorting activities, a sorting song, and kindergarten videos on sorting objects to help you teach sorting. Sorting is a basic skill covered in most kindergarten curriculums. In fact, the common core standards state students should be able to…