With distance learning becoming more of the norm, I wanted to share some activities for you to provide your students with if you teach Pre-K or Kindergarten. Also, if you are a parents these are some ways to include hands-on activities while learning at home. All of these activities are on my TeachersPayTeachers Store, under Kindergarten Lesson Plans for Distance Learning. So far, week one has been complete with 5 days and 5 different books/themes. The activities, ideas, crafts and experiments were made by Stephanie from Kindershenanigans and myself, Kayla from Move Mountains in Kindergarten.
Week One Books for Kindergarten Lesson Plans:
These books were chosen because they centered around the themes of what students are learning right now in Kindergarten (the month of March/ April). They have to deal with spring time, shapes, helping the earth, women’s month, plants and more! The five books are: The Bad Seed, Ada Twist: Scientist, The Giving Tree, Snippets and The Grouchy Ladybug.
What is Included:
We picked activities that will be easy to complete a home, easy to understand, low-prep, hands-on, engaging and honestly FUN! Plus, as a bonus we included different brain breaks and a lunch idea!
Lesson Plans for Reading
In each kindergarten lesson plan there is a book you will read or can watch on YouTube with before, during and after questions. Then, there is a sight word page, a phonics activity with cards for you to use for a sensory bin/ write the room and a writing prompt that has a mess free craft to complete with it.
Lesson Plans for Math
Each day includes a math tic-tac-toe board which has 9 choices for students to pick from. First, there are 9 choices that were picked from Kindergarten Common Core Standards like 2D and 3D shapes, base ten blocks, teen numbers, addition and subtraction plus more. Next, students get to pick 3 activities to complete in order for them to get tic-tac-toe. Last, there is a printable sheet for math manipulatives that go along with the book and a number line included to help your students and child.
Lesson Plans for STEM& Social Studies
Each day includes similar activities with the exception of STEM and Social Studies. When you buy the whole week of kindergarten lesson plans you will see a daily schedule. On Monday, Wednesday and Friday we included a STEM activity and on Tuesday and Thursday we included a Social Studies Activity.
The STEM activities include things you can find easily around your house. You may also use other items to help you complete the catapult, recycled bug or your own giving tree.
The social studies activities include finding famous women in your state and locating your state. Also, students will draw a map of their community using shapes and labeling a compass.
How to use these Lesson Plans:
Lastly, I wanted to show you how to use these lesson plans during distance learning. You can send these plans as a PDF through email, upload to a private Facebook community with your parents, upload to an educational platform like SeeSaw or Dojo, copy certain pages and place on Google Classroom. Once, distance learning is over, these can be used in the classroom as sub plans.
Kindergarten is such a hard grade to send home activities that aren’t just worksheets and I am hopeful these lesson plans can be used in place of daily worksheets. I also have free weekly choice boards for reading, writing and math if you need extra materials, click here to grab them. Each book you can buy individually or save money and buy in the bundle. Click here or on the photo below to buy the bundle.
