Kindergarten Lesson Plans

Dyed Flower Garden
In this lesson, you will teach students to create a dyed flower garden, discuss how plants grow and read Eric Carle's "Tiny Seed."
Falling Leaves
In this lesson, students will paint over leaves to create a painting of falling leaves.
I Am Special
In this lesson, students will be taught that they each have qualities that make them special in their own way.
Learning About Leaves
In this lesson, you will take the students on a trip outside to collect different kinds of leaves. Then, you will return to the classroom and do their art project.
Making Christmas Cards
In this lesson, students will learn to make Christmas cards for their parents. This lesson plan can also be for elementary students Grades 1 to 5.
Making Santas
Students will make Santas for this lesson. This lesson can be done in December for Christmas.
Making Turkeys
This lesson plan can be used in November for Thanksgiving. Students will make turkeys.
Making Valentine's Day Cards
Students will make Valentine's Day cards.

Health Bookmarks
This lesson plan is learning about health. Students will also make bookmarks that relate to health.

Long, Long, Ago
Children will learn that the world has not always been as it is today by discovering things they use in every day life that were not available long ago. They'll use reasoning and imagination to think of ways to live without those items and experiment with pioneer life.
Thanksgiving Menu
This activity allows students to be imaginative and do some creative writing, while learning about history by creating a menu for the first thanksgiving.

Beginning Letters
Students will have a worksheet where they will circle the words in the list that start with the same letters.
Beginning Sounds
In this lesson, students will have a worksheet where they will write down a word from the list that begins with the same sound as the word on the worksheet.
Ending Letters
Students will have a worksheet where they will circle the words in the list that end with the same letters.
Learning About Syllables
This lesson is on syllables. Students will have a worksheet where they will write down how many syllables each word has.
Learning About Vowels - Part One
This lesson is on teaching the students vowels. They will have a worksheet where they will circle vowels.
Learning About Vowels - Part Two
This lesson is on teaching the students about vowels. They will have a worksheet where they will fill in the missing vowels.
Listening to Directions
In this lesson, you will hide objects in the room and have students locate them by the directions you give them.
Sorting Words
Students will sort out the words that rhyme and group them.
Words That Rhyme
Students will have a worksheet where they will circle the words in each row that rhyme.

Beginning Math - Addition
This lesson plan consists of beginning addition problems for kindergarten students.
Beginning Math - Subtraction
This lesson plan consists of beginning subtraction problems for kindergarten students.
Finding the Missing Numbers and Sequencing
Students will have two worksheets. Worksheet One - Students will put the numbers from 1 to 25 in order. Worksheet Two - Students will find the missing numbers.
Learning Numbers
This lesson plan is on teaching numbers to kindergarten children and helping them to count by ones, fives, and tens. I have suggestions that you can do with the students.
Numbers - Before and After
This worksheet has two parts. Part One - Students will write a number that comes after a given number. Part Two - Students will write a number that comes before a given number.

Developing Tactile Skills
This lesson is about developing tactile skills. You will gather items and put them in a sack. You will use these items in the exercise that I have included in this lesson.
Sequencing - Days and Months
In this lesson, students will have two worksheets. The first worksheet - Students will put the days of the weeks in order. The second worksheet - Students will put the months of the year in order.
Telling Time
One of the hardest activities for a pre-school student is learning to tell time. This activity allows for students to learn to tell time on a standard clock by letting them use their arms and bodies. This type of kinestetic learning will allow the students to learn to tell time easier and quicker.

Capital Letters and Small Letters
For this lesson, students will write the small letter that goes with the capital letter.
Finding the Missing Letters and Sequencing
Students will have two worksheets. Worksheet One - Students will find the missing letters. Worksheet Two - Students will put the letters of the alphabet in order. I have written the letters on their worksheet, but they are out of order.
Learning Letters
This lesson plan is on teaching kindergarten children the alphabet. I will give different suggestions on how to teach students the alphabet.
Learning the Alphabet
Students will write the letter that comes after each given letter.
Locating Words
Students will learn to find words in an article from a word list. They will also write the words that are on the list.

Learning About Magnets
In this lesson, students will learn about magnets.
The Uses of Trees
In this lesson, you will talk about three different types of trees and there uses. Then you will show the children how to create leaf rubbings.

Community Helpers
Students will learn about the different community helpers.
Learning About Firemen
In this lesson, students will learn about firemen.
Learning About Occupations
In this lesson, students will paste pictures of people on a mural to put up in the classroom. The people should illustrate different occupations such as doctor, policeman, fireman, nurse, and other workers. This lesson can be done as an art project or social studies project.
Learning About Writers
In this lesson, you can have a published writer visit the classroom and discuss writing.
Learning to Share
This lesson is on teaching students to share.
The American Flag
To teach students the what the stars and stripes on the American flag represent.

Rhyming Words
This lesson is on teaching words that rhyme. By learning words that rhyme, students can say them easier and can also learn to spell them easier.

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