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This is a four week illustration unit to help kindergarten/first grade writers become confident in their drawing and coloring skills. Primary students will learn how to draw with shapes and people with different facial expressions, hairstyles, and skin tones.This illustration study sets kindergarten students up for success for the rest of the year during writers workshop. Students can reference their directed drawing notebook throughout the year if they forget how to draw an object already tau

Kindergarten Writing Curriculum Lesson Plans Kindergarten Growing Writers Teach writing with confidence using this comprehensive Kindergarten Writing Curriculum! Designed with a workshop-style approach, this curriculum focuses on explicit instruction while slowly building foundational writing skills—starting with illustrations and progressing step by step. Each unit includes daily editable slides in both PowerPoint and Google Slides formats. PowerPoint files are included directly in each uni

These are PowerPoint Slides and Google Slides for teaching beginning of the year classroom expectations and procedures. Use real images to model to your students expected behavior. What’s included:Classroom Expectations: sitting on rug, sitting at desk, hanging up backpack, how to raise hand, how to ask to go to the bathroom, how to line up, how to work at desk, how to push in chairBathroom Procedures: steps for hand washingLunch Room Expectations: how to hold lunch tray, how to sit and eatPlay

This 4-week scribbling unit is designed for preschool and kindergarten students and serves as the foundation of the Growing Writers writing progression. Students use a scribbling journal to explore purposeful scribbles, lines, and marks as they begin turning their ideas into pictures and stories. This unit can be used in preschool classrooms based on student readiness or as the beginning of the year writing unit in kindergarten. The focus is on building fine-motor development, drawing stamin

This is a Sentence Writing Unit for kindergarten or first grade students. Students will explicitly learn and practice how to write a complete sentence. By the end of the unit, your kindergarten or first grade students should be able to write a sentence independently. This unit sets kindergarten students up for success for writers workshop for the year. Students are given intensive instruction focusing solely on how to write a sentence. Often, we rush into the writing process which causes studen

This is a Kindergarten Labeling Unit for students to become confident in their labeling and sentence structure skills. Kindergarten students will learn how to label phonetically by listening to the sounds they hear and towards the end of the unit practice writing a sentence with their labels. This unit sets kindergarten students up for success for writers workshop for the year. Students are given intensive instruction focusing solely on labeling their pictures. Often, we rush into the writing

These are a ctivities to teach how to use school supplies in the beginning of the year in kindergarten. Students will practice using a school supply each day by following along the editable daily slides, completing the anchor chart sort together, listening to supply poem and completing the practice page for that supply utensil. School supplies used: pencil, crayon, marker, scissors, glue stick, glue, dry eraser marker, water color paints, playdough and bingo dot markers. What’s included:Editab

Monthly Kindergarten Reading Centers – Yearlong Literacy ActivitiesLooking for engaging, hands-on kindergarten reading centers for the entire year? This MEGA BUNDLE includes over 66 low-prep literacy centers designed to build foundational reading skills all year long! Perfect for small groups, independent practice, or literacy rotations in your science of reading-aligned kindergarten classroom. What's Included (66 PRODUCTS AND GROWING):Monthly Writing CenterMonthly sensory binsMonthly sentenc

This is an end of the year memory book for kindergarten, pre-k or preschool. Students will draw and write on different pages about their school year. What's included:4 cover options and an editable optionBlank lines and handwriting road options30 pages to fill out: all about me, my teacher, my school, my friends, my class, what I learned, my favorites, a note from my teacher, lunchtime, recess, PE, music, art, steam, stem, computer class, library, field trips, this or that, summer plans, autogra

This is a four week narrative unit to help kindergarten writers become confident in their story writing skills with a beginning, middle and end. Kindergarten students will learn how to use map out their ideas, use transitional words, match their picture with their sentence and become independent writers! This unit goes through the book making process slowly by allowing students to complete at their own pace. Students will be met where they are developmentally with 6 different book options. Th

These are preschool prewriting and drawing activities for your toddlers, preschool or kindergarten students who may need more fine motor practice. What's Included:Prewriting StrokesPrewriting AlphabetPrewriting NumbersPreschool Scribbling and Drawing UnitReady to start drawing? Here is my most popular teaching resource that will guide your students to draw with shapes ONLY before writing stories:Illustration UnitInformation for You: Each time you give feedback, TpT gives you feedback credits t

Gingerbread Week Unit Gingerbread Man Compare Contrast Kindergarten Reading This is a Gingerbread Week Bundle with everything you need for reading, writing and craft time for the entire week! Read different versions of Gingerbread stories in reading and create your OWN Gingerbread book during writing time! Create a Gingerbread Bakery in your dramatic play center and create gingerbread crafts throughout the week! Your students will be engaged all week long! What's Included:Gingerbread Story C

This is a writing center starter pack for your kindergarten or first grade classrooms. Create a writing center in your kindergarten or primary classroom with these banners, anchor charts and writing templates.What's Inside:8 options of "write" bunting banner (boho, rainbow pastel or bright rainbow plus black & white and PENCIL option, composition with bright colors, notebook with bright colors, pencil letters, notebook letters)Composition borderNotebook paper borderAlphabet chart with real ph

These are Decodable Phonics Comics. Use in your kindergarten or first grade classroom to keep your students engaged and have fun reading! These phonics comics are written with a focus on specific phonics skills like CVC, blends, etc.There are fun variations of some words used to keep it silly and fun like "Noooo" and "Wahhhh"What's Inside:CVC Phonics ComicsBlends Phonics ComicsDigraph Phonics ComicsCVCE Phonics ComicsVowel Teams Phonics ComicsHow to Use:Print and go!Use in small groups or ind

This is a 5 week Alphabet Curriculum for Kindergarten students. Students will focus on learning one letter a day throughout their entire reading block. This unit focuses on foundational phonics skills needed for kindergarten students to be successful for the entire year. What's included:26 lesson plans for each letter (editable option included)FULLY EDITABLE SLIDES FOR WHOLE GROUP NOW POWERPOINT AND GOOGLE SLIDES AVAILABLEPre/post assessment of letter ID, sounds and handwritingOne page foldab

This seasonal tear art bundle includes spring crafts like rainbows and clovers, along with fall, winter, and summer tearing paper activities. Students build fine motor skills by strengthening hand muscles while creating engaging in no prep art projects for preschool and kindergarten. How to Use:Tear colored paper in tiny piecesGlue onto picture, make sure all white spaces are goneOptional sentence at the bottomWhat's Included 142 images and growing:Pencil Tear ArtCrayon Tear ArtApple Tear ArtA

This is a Prewriting Bundle for your toddlers, preschoolers or kindergarten students that are not ready to draw shapes or write independently yet. Before they are ready to start writing letters and numbers, they need to focus on prewriting strokes. From there, they can learn the strokes of alphabet letters and numbers with explicit steps.What's Inside:Prewriting StrokesPrewriting AlphabetPrewriting Numbers 0-20Have an idea of another prewriting activity? Email thatkindermama@gmail.com and I

This is a monthly writing center that exposes your kindergarten and first grade students to real images to help learn new vocabulary and make real world connections. Students can practice their phonetic knowledge of letters and sounds in a low, risk setting. What's Inside:Writing Center Starter Pack (Anchor charts and banners)August Back to School Center Apple Writing Center Words (September)Pumpkin Writing Center Words (October)November Turkey Writing Center Holidays Writing Center Words (Dec

These are editable classroom toy labels with real pictures. Organize and manage your classroom toys with these visual labels! Expose your students to real photographs while also creating independence with these visual pictures. What's included:114 supply labelsEDITABLE OPTION MUST HAVE POWERPOINTPictures Used:action figures alphabet games art supplies baby toys balls barbies bath toys big toys big legos bingo chips bingo dotters bingo daubers board games brain flakes bristle bocks bubbles build

Gingerbread Craft Bulletin Board Activity Gingerbread Man Week Activities This is a Gingerbread Craft for preschool, prek, kindergarten and first grade students. Students can create a gingerbread craft to display on the December bulletin board or find their name displayed on it. What's included:Gingerbread craft easy template AND color/cut option (no construction paper needed)Letters for the saying "We are smart cookies" and "Oh snap! The holidays are back!" with decorative light bulbs"We are s