Kindergarten Lesson Plans
Friends Are Fun!
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Friends Are Fun!
In this social skills lesson plan, students will get to practice identifying how to be a friend. Friendship is an important social skill for kindergarten students to master as they begin to form a new community of peers at school.
Kindergarten
Social studies
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Details! Details! Details!
Lesson Plan
Details! Details! Details!
Do your students lack color and details in illustrations? Are you tired of gazing at a blank piece of white paper? Well... no more! Use the following lesson to turn your students into detailed illustrators.
Kindergarten
Reading & Writing
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Houses and Homes Around the World
Lesson Plan
Houses and Homes Around the World
Students will learn about the different kinds of houses people live in around the world and how they relate to a culture, environment, and country.
Kindergarten
Social studies
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The Life Cycle of a Butterfly
Lesson Plan
The Life Cycle of a Butterfly
Let your students spread their wings with this lesson that teaches them about the life cycle of a butterfly. A fun song will get your class moving and a variety of different worksheets will suit any class.
Kindergarten
Science
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Exploring Systems with a Classroom Systems Hunt
Lesson Plan
Exploring Systems with a Classroom Systems Hunt
Teach your students to recognize systems in the world around them by identifying systems that exist in their classroom.
Kindergarten
Social studies
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Weather Collages
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Weather Collages
What's the weather like today? Engage your students in learning about different types of weather by making collages. While creating their weather pictures, students will also practice using adjectives to describe their work.
Kindergarten
Reading & Writing
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Reading Faces
Lesson Plan
Reading Faces
The first step to helping students develop empathy is teaching them about feelings. In this lesson, students learn what feelings look like by crafting their own emotional faces.
Kindergarten
Reading & Writing
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Magnet Magic
Lesson Plan
Magnet Magic
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.
Kindergarten
Science
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Finding the Details and Asking for Answers
Lesson Plan
Finding the Details and Asking for Answers
ELs will get a chance to practice their listening and reading comprehension skills as they answer questions about the key details in a read-aloud text. Use as a stand-alone or pre-lesson for the Questions for Comprehension lesson plan.
Kindergarten
Reading & Writing
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Counting to 20: Get 'Em in Order!
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Counting to 20: Get 'Em in Order!
Your students will have fun working with numbers to 20 with this exciting and interactive lesson with music, movement, and hands-on experiences!
Kindergarten
Math
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Fruit Salad: Phonemes and Syllables
Lesson Plan
Fruit Salad: Phonemes and Syllables
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.
Kindergarten
Reading & Writing
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Draw to the Music
Lesson Plan
Draw to the Music
Drawing and music? Let's do it! This fun lesson gets students to listen closely to music, using adjectives and pictures to describe what they hear.
Kindergarten
Fine arts
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Weather Station
Lesson Plan
Weather Station
Help your students become meteorologists in this engaging lesson. After learning about different types of weather, students get to create their own weather stations to track the weather.
Kindergarten
Reading & Writing
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It's the Musical Alphabet
Lesson Plan
It's the Musical Alphabet
In this music-inspired lesson plan, students will practice recognizing the letters of the alphabet while using music to guide them.
Kindergarten
Reading & Writing
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Mindfulness: Mindful Movement
Lesson Plan
Mindfulness: Mindful Movement
Imagine wild animals teaching students to walk mindfully, and camoflauge teaching about stillness. This lesson takes a cue from animal adaptations as students practice walking and pausing mindfully.
Kindergarten
Social emotional
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Empathy
Lesson Plan
Empathy
In this lesson, students will explore and discuss the term "empathy" by hearing stories from two different perspectives and identifying the feelings of each of the characters. They will also discuss what it means to be true to ourselves.
Kindergarten
Social emotional
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How Pictures Can Help Us Read
Lesson Plan
How Pictures Can Help Us Read
In this lesson, students will learn how to decode unknown words in a texts using context clues. Students will be introduced to the idea of opposites and will practice identifying opposites. This lesson can be used on its own or as support for the lesson Is It the Same?
Kindergarten
Reading & Writing
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Get to Know Mae Jemison
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Get to Know Mae Jemison
Mae Jemison was the first African American female astronaut to enter space. Use the Get to Know Mae Jemison lesson plan to learn more about this famous scientist. Children will then read and write about her, and create their own paper rocket.
Kindergarten
Reading & Writing
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Heart to Heart
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Heart to Heart
In this lesson, students will practice loving kindness for a classmate by writing them a letter or drawing them a picture showing their appreciation.
Kindergarten
Social emotional
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Student Leaders
Lesson Plan
Student Leaders
What does it mean to be a leader? In this lesson, students will discuss leadership and will practice leading mindfulness for other students in their class.
Kindergarten
Social emotional
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Rhythm Patterns
Lesson Plan
Rhythm Patterns
Let's get clapping! Help students extend their knowledge of patterns by using rhythm. After making musical patterns, students will translate the patterns into shape patterns.
Kindergarten
Math
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My Robot Friend
Lesson Plan
My Robot Friend
What is a robot? What can robots do? Computer programmers tell robots what to do by creating a sequence of commands. In this lesson, students work in pairs to program a robot to act out the story from the mini story book My Friend.
Kindergarten
Science
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Goal Setting
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Goal Setting
In this lesson, students will identify what they already know about a topic, what they need to know, and how they will achieve their learning goal.
Kindergarten
Social emotional
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Peace Corner
Lesson Plan
Peace Corner
The peace corner is a space where students may practice previously taught calm-down methods, such as deep breathing and mindfulness. Students will draw a picture of themselves in the peace corner and practice in small groups.
Kindergarten
Social emotional
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Red, Yellow, Blue, I Love You
Lesson Plan
Red, Yellow, Blue, I Love You
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.
Kindergarten
Fine arts
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My Body
Lesson Plan
My Body
This simple lesson plan will help your students gain a basic understanding of different body parts.
Kindergarten
Science
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Goldilocks and the Three Bears: Key Details
Lesson Plan
Goldilocks and the Three Bears: Key Details
In this lesson, your students will explore reading with technology with "Goldilocks and the Three Bears." Students will use a graphic organizer to reflect on this story.
Kindergarten
Reading & Writing
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Color Mixing with Mouse Paint!
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Color Mixing with Mouse Paint!
A classic story, simple game, and color mixing will help your students learn their primary and secondary colors.
Kindergarten
Fine arts
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