Lesson Plans for Kindergarten

Help students learn the crucial reading strategy of visualizing. Visualizing is a key component of learning to infer from a text. Kids will love using their imaginations to draw pictures of their visualizations.

After this lesson you will have a group of prospective farmers in your class. They plant seeds and learn what seeds need to grow.

Help improve your class' reading comprehension and language development with this lesson that has them retell a familiar story in groups.

Take a walk together! In this lesson, your students will practice their listening and comprehension skills while walking in different ways.

This fun and interactive lesson will teach your students the scientific method to find out if something sinks or floats with a little help from Cookie Monster.

Playing make believe and telling stories are favorite childhood past times. Thus, no matter their reading level, students will love the opportunity to “read” to others and explore pictures as they take a walk through books.

This hands-on lesson is sure get your students excited about ocean life. Your little marine biologists will have a great time listening to clues and finding different ocean animals.

Fantastic! Fun! Fabulous! In this phonics lesson, your class will learn all about the letter F through words, letter-sound correspondence, writing, and a fun frog song.

Exciting E! This short vowel sound lesson will help your students identify and learn words with the letter E.

I like to run, play, and dance! In this lesson, students will learn how to express themselves and write simple sentences. Your class will gain important social skills by interacting with their peers during these activities.

Use this lesson to teach your students about their sense of smell. Teach them that food would not taste as good without their sense of smell. Have them imagine their favorite food and think if they like the taste or the smell of that food.

In this lesson, students will have fun creating addition sentences by drawing and counting ladybug dots.

Help your students with their letter recognition skills with this lesson that has them make their own Autumn Alphabet Tree. This hands-on activity is great even for the most restless students, as they will constantly have something to do.

Let your students seek the winning prize in this word and letter recognition activity. Part scavenger hunt and part language practice, this lesson is sure to please young readers.

Writing is a hugely important life skill. Before your kids begin expressing their ideas, however, they'll need to work on penmanship. This simple lesson helps students with the basics of writing the letters of the alphabet.

This lesson is about Community Heroes. It describes what community heroes do. It gives your students a good idea of what makes community heroes special.

Who is who in your school community? In this lesson, students will learn about the people who work at their school and how everyone helps each other to keep the school running safely.

Your kindergarten students will learn how to share their opinion with others through entertaining and purposeful persuasive writing practice.

Give early learners a solid foundation for school by introducing colors in this lesson. Learning the names of primary colors, and applying color knowledge to familiar objects is a great way to start building communication readiness skills.

A classic story, simple game, and color mixing will help your students learn their primary and secondary colors.

"Green Eggs and Ham" by Dr. Seuss is a favorite for children and grown-ups alike. In this lesson, your students will focus on Dr. Seuss's use of rhyming words in the story.

Your kids will love learning about setting, characters, and events as they listen to a classic tale and play a simple game. This lesson helps students improve their reading comprehension skills while having fun.

Help your students' reasoning skills grow with this activity that has them make educated guesses on whether or not an item will be attracted to a magnet.

Stay active and encourage healthy eating with favorite fruits. This lesson emphasizes multiple core learning competencies including phonological awareness and greater than and less than number concepts.