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Math Corner Activities on Time for Kindergarten
There are many age-appropriate, interactive tools available to help kindergarten students as they learn how to tell time. Adding these educational activities to your math corner gives your students...
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Activities on a Pumpkin's Life Cycle for Kindergarten
There is something about planting seeds in a garden and watching them grow that your kindergarten students will find to be an enjoyable learning experience. The life cycle of the pumpkin will be...
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Kindergarten Graphing Ideas
Graphing with kindergarten children allows you to introduce new math concepts and give kids a chance to share their ideas with the class. Keep graphing activities simple so they are easy for the...
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Kindergarten Art Activities for Homeschoolers
Kindergarten art activities help children develop better hand and eye coordination, and using the materials assists a child's fine motor skill development. Art activities are fun and actively stimulate...
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Transition Activities for Kindergarten Students
Kindergarten students are bursting with energy and eager to partake in different activities. This combination of energy and eagerness can often contribute to confusion, chaos and a lot of noise when...
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How to Learn to Read at Age 5
Some young children are ready to read at age 5. Teaching these children to read requires patience on the part of the teacher and ample time to provide instruction at the child's pace. Reading is a...
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Moon Activities for Kindergarten
Like just about everyone else, your kindergartners are curious about the moon. They can look up and see a beautiful glowing ball one night but another night they will see no moon at all. They are sure...
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Kindergarten St. Patrick's Day Ideas
Participation in holiday preparations and festivities signifies an exciting transition for the kindergartner. With diapers and toddlerhood behind him, emerging language no longer prevents him from...
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Characteristics of Living Things for Kindergarten
An important unit in most kindergarten science curricula is exploring living things. Once students are able to identify living things -- plants and animals -- they are ready to discover their...
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JumpStart Kindergarten Games
JumpStart is an online site of learning adventure games and activities for children ages 3 to 10. JumpStart provides safeguarded and age-appropriate games for children. JumpStart website was introduced...
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Primary School Apple Activities
An apple-tasting activity is an excellent way to introduce prekindergarten and kindergarten students to your curriculum on apples. Your students can learn about the colors and varieties of apples as...
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Thanksgiving Lessons & Crafts for Kindergarten
Kindergarten children treasure holiday celebrations and love to learn about holiday traditions and history. Indians, pilgrims, fat turkeys and special foods combine during the Thanksgiving holiday...
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"Frog and Toad Are Friends" Activities
This classic children's book contains five chapters, each with a different story. From the change of the seasons to the topic of respecting friends' feelings, each chapter offers activities suitable...
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Art Activities for Kindergarteners Dealing with Collage
A collage can be made using materials like construction paper, tissue, ribbon and feathers. For your Valentine or Friendship collage you can use different materials with the same harmonic reds, pinks...
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Fun Games to Help Teach My Kindergartener at Home
Teaching your kindergarten child at home is a task that you can achieve with confidence. Kindergarten children can practice readiness skills and acquire new skills when you incorporate learning games...
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Full-Day Kindergarten Ideas
Teaching kindergarten to a full-day class has its advantages. When instructing a class for an entire day, you have more time to develop skills through extra worksheets and activities. The children...
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Bookmaking Ideas for Kindergarten
Your kindergarten students can make an "All About Me" book for family and friends. This eight-page book with a book cover decorated with your students' handprints will be a meaningful project for your...
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Simple Science Fair Projects for Kindergartners
Introducing kindergarten students to the world of science provides many opportunities for hands-on learning. Allow the children in your class to participate in a science fair. This will teach them...
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Learning Tools for Kindergarten
Kindergarten is a time when children are not only adjusting to school and the classroom environment, but they are also learning formal lessons on topics like math, science and English. Learning tools...
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Special Education IEP Goals for Kindergarten
Students who are eligible to receive special education services must have an Individualized Education Plan (IEP) in place. This is a legal document that outlines the student's functioning level,...
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Kindergarten Reward Ideas
Whether you are a teacher or a parent of a child in kindergarten, rewards can reinforce good behavior. Depending on the child, some rewards are more effective than others. Offer rewards that boost...
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How to Read Stories About Character With Small Children
Children learn right from wrong the way adults do-through experience. Stories about character validate the healthy choices children learn to make. Allegorical stories can parallel a child's own world....
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Passive Activities for Kindergarten
Kindergarten is an invaluable developmental period for most kids, one in which they learn the foundations of institutional learning. While active and social games are essential to developing certain...
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Retelling Activities for Kindergarten
Retelling a story requires kindergarten students to organize their thoughts. Students may verbally order the story parts and include the setting, characters, climax and moral or lesson pertaining to...
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Pencil Grip Games
Fine motor skills are needed for many different activities and tasks throughout the day, such as typing shoes, zipping a jacket, putting a puzzle together or writing your name. Writing is one of the...
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Consonant and Vowel Games for Kindergarten
Kindergartners will both enjoy and learn from classroom games that teach them to identify and pronounce vowels and consonants. Begin with exercises that help them identify letters. Once students easily...
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Simple Kindergarten Art Craft Projects
Kindergarten arts and crafts projects can be easy and fun, using just a few simple materials. Include cutting, tracing, coloring and gluing to allow children to utilize and refine developing motor...
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Tips to Help Your Kindergartner at Home
Kindergarten is a time for your child to build the foundation that will set the stage for the rest of her school years. While many of the skills your child needs to master will be taught in the...
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Beginning Word Games for Kids
When young children are first learning to read and write words, it's important to keep activities fun and engaging to promote practice and learning. It's simple to create word games for young children...
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Physical Education Games for Children 3-5 Years of Age
Physical education classes provide opportunities to teach young children gross motor skills, safety rules and interpersonal skills such as turn-taking. Children aged 3 to 5 can be eager participants as...
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Games for Pre-K & Kindergarten
Games are attention-getting physical activities that allow your pupils to learn rules and consequences as they follow a set of directions. Learning new games can give your pupils an excellent...
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Easy Hanging Crafts for Kindergarten
One of the most important things to remember when planning crafts for kindergarten age students is to keep it simple. At this age, children are still developing their ability to cut, tape and glue...
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Listening & Attention Skills
There are days when getting and keeping the attention of your pre-kindergarten or kindergarten class can be a challenge. Entertaining chants and songs will allow the students in your classroom to...
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Kindergarten Hands-On Math Lessons
Hands-on math activities help students at the kindergarten level to more fully grasp math concepts. There are a variety of lessons for kindergarten children addressing math fundamentals such as shapes,...
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How to Learn About 2D Shapes for Kids
The world is made of shapes. Bridges are made of big triangles. Windows are rectangles. Car wheels are circles. While these are examples of 3D objects, they are representative of 2D shapes that...
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New Ideas in Kindergarten
Kindergarten is an exciting time for new students and parents alike. Your child is learning in leaps and bounds and every day seems to bring exponential development. The main goal of kindergarten is to...
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Things Kindergarten Teachers Have on Their Wish List
A kindergarten classroom is an environment where young students are able to learn using engaging, hands-on methods. Many of the items used in kindergarten classes are costly or time-consuming to make...
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Ideas for the First Week of Kindergarten
Starting kindergarten can be an exciting time for young children. However, it often brings about a level of worry and anxiety regarding a new school and its academic requirements. You can create a...
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Characteristics of a Good Kindergarten Classroom
Kindergarten is a transitional year between preschool and elementary school and must contain elements of both. When visiting a school during open house, kindergarten registration or during a private...
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"The Little School Bus" Activities
"The Little School Bus" is a children's picture book by Carol Roth about riding the bus to school. It is full of animal characters who get on the bus wearing silly outfits. Each animal gets off the bus...
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Kinder Math Games
Kindergarten is the time when children explore numbers and begin to learn basic math facts. Part of the math curriculum objectives during kindergarten include knowing how to recognize and write numbers...
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Kindergarten Activities for "One Red Rooster"
"One Red Rooster" by Kathleen Sullivan Carroll is a bright book designed for young children. The book introduces rhyming, numbers, colors and barnyard animals and their noises to children. Activities...
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Letter Carrier Activity for Kindergarten
Wide-eyed kindergartners watch the letter carrier delivering mail, hoping he carries a letter addressed to them. Give kindergartners the thrill of participating in an activity that puts control of...
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Smartboard Activities for Pre-School & Kindergarten
The SMART Board/whiteboard will give your preschool or kindergarten students the opportunity to work with the software, websites and documents kept on your computer desktop. This technology will allow...
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Kindergarten Registration Ideas
Registering for kindergarten is a big moment for parents and students. The registration process typically holds more meaning the first time around, and both parents and students might share a bit of...
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Mother Goose Bulletin Board Ideas for Kindergarten
Mother Goose is a fictional character who wrote and compiled stories and poems for children. According to Nursery Rhymes Online, Mother Goose poems are primarily known and loved by English speaking...
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Interactive Counting Games for Kindergartners
Counting is am important math skill that is taught and reinforced in most kindergarten classrooms. While it is possible to teach children to count by simply having them practice counting orally,...
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Kindergarten Daily Literacy Activities
Traditionally, kindergarten is thought of as a time when students are learning social skills, colors and numbers. This is also a time when students need to begin building literacy skills that will give...
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Presidents' Day Lesson Ideas for Kindergarteners
The third Monday of every February is the national holiday of Presidents' Day. While some consider this a celebration of all presidents of the United States, the day originally was intended to honor...
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Kindergarten Hands on Lessons
Kindergartners need to manipulate materials to develop hand-eye coordination and strengthen the muscles in their fingers to prepare them for writing. Hands-on objects used for students to learn a...
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