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This Week in Kindergarten
Week 19
Beginning & Ending Blends
Beginning & Ending Blends
Listening for blends helps children learn to pay attention to the beginning and end of words while reading.
Teach children to listen for blends to help them decode words as they read.
Beginning Consonant Blends
Interactive Worksheet
Beginning Consonant Blends
This fill-in-the-bubble test is a great way to help kids familiarize with standardized testing.
Interactive Worksheet
Ending Blends #1
Interactive Worksheet
Ending Blends #1
Use consonant blends to complete the words with missing endings in this colorful worksheet!
Interactive Worksheet
Ending Sounds Path: K
Worksheet
Ending Sounds Path: K
On this kindergarten reading worksheet, kids circle only the pictures whose names end in the K sound as they follow the path.
Kindergarten
Worksheet
Subtraction to 5
Subtraction to 5
Practice subtraction using small objects such as pennies, cereal, or buttons to help your child reinforce their number sense.
Give students manipulatives to help them solve problems before they have their facts memorized. Continue to use number bonds to reinforce number sense.
Let's Practice Subtraction! 1–5
Interactive Worksheet
Let's Practice Subtraction! 1–5
Preschoolers will count to subtract birds, bugs, eggs, and more in this pictorial springtime math worksheet.
Interactive Worksheet
Picture Strategy
Lesson plan
Picture Strategy
Students will practice using drawings and images to support them as they practice solving subtraction equations within 10. This can be used as a stand alone or support lesson for the Spring Subtraction Equations lesson plan.
Kindergarten
Math
Lesson plan
Ski Racer: Subtraction Patterns of 1 Less
Game
Ski Racer: Subtraction Patterns of 1 Less
This digital game helps preschoolers and kindergarteners practice simple subtraction with single-digit numbers.
Preschool
Math
Game
Tricky Words
Tricky Words
As you read with your child, encourage them to use their finger to help track where they are on a page and within a word. Tracking as they read will help them decode tricky words.
After the students have some time to read independently, allow them to work in pairs to do buddy reading. They can help each other through tricky parts in the book as well as retell the book together to improve comprehension.
My Rhyming Book: -Ock
Worksheet
My Rhyming Book: -Ock
Help your child improve their reading with this printable phonics worksheet, which is all about words that rhyme with "sock".
Worksheet
My Rhyming Book: -Ee
Worksheet
My Rhyming Book: -Ee
Challenge your child to create a rhyming book filled with words that end with the sound "-ee". Get the rhyming book worksheet.
Worksheet
Decoding Words
Worksheet
Decoding Words
Let your little reader play sight word sleuth with this activity about decoding words! She'll sound out words to find the missing letters in each one.
Kindergarten
Worksheet
Adding Details
Adding Details
Experiment with writing shared stories with your child at home. This will help strengthen your child’s knowledge of adding details to their writing.
Use interactive and guided writing to make class books together to display in the classroom. This is helpful when modeling how to add details to writing.
Detail Detectives
Worksheet
Detail Detectives
Practice retelling familiar stories using this detail-oriented worksheet!
Kindergarten
Worksheet
More Details Please
Worksheet
More Details Please
What makes a story or picture interesting? Details! Young writers and illustrators can use this worksheet to practice making their own writing even better!
Kindergarten
Worksheet
Graphic Organizer Template: Bubble Map
Worksheet
Graphic Organizer Template: Bubble Map
Teachers can use this general organizer template for main idea and details, pre-writing, word analysis, brain dumps, concept mapping, background knowledge collection, and more.
Kindergarten
Worksheet
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