Kindergarten and Preschool Lesson Plans, Themes, Activities and Worksheets

Included in your memberhip is a total of 22 full themes and 8 mini-themes. Each theme includes 2-4 related emergent readers used to help teach beginning reading skills, a total of over 100 emergent readers. Each full theme unit includes two-week lesson plan ideas in the areas of language arts (literacy and developing early reading skills), math, writing, craft ideas, music, social and science.

Lesson Plans that Help Meet The Curriculum

Countless hours have been spent to ensure the resources cover the majority of the Kindergarten curriculum for a full-teaching year. If the "Alphabet Program" were followed the majority of the kindergarten curriclum would be covered. If you are a Preschool teacher, you can easily modify the materials to provide an outstanding program for your children. This would reflect positively in your favor!

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Kindergarten

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I have been a Kindergarten teacher for 32 years and I am now moving to a Pre-K position. Your programs fit my philosophical approach to early education and I am looking forward to using them. It is has been worth the hours of research spent on the computer looking for just the right material!!!! Thank you. Carol Mock - member

Preschool

Have been so busy at the beginning of the new school year for us here in Saudi. Have started in September with the usual Back to School theme and incorporated it with your very special Friendship theme, they all learned "We are friends" tune in the space of a week and are still singing it in December, it was a great hit. Have used the majority of material from each theme thereafter, give or take a few bits and pieces. It has helped me alot to organize each unit as I go and the kids are loving the stories. I have now completed the Colors theme and Numbers which I also incorporated shapes into as well. It has been a great help and will hopefully send you some pictures of some wonderful art work we have done involving rainbows etc....
Many thanks for you wonderful website and keep up the good work, we are enjoying it in Saudi. Amina Harries

Preschool and Homeschooling

I am homeschooling 2 preschoolers and have found this website a godsend! Thanks so much for creating a real quality program for these kids! My boys have excelled so much since using your worksheets. Patti Roche

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ESOL

I have ESOL students. Your lesson plans fit right into what I have been doing as of date. My students loved the worksheets. They commented how much they like the pictures. I helped them illustrate their own stories. Nancy

Special Education

I am currently a member and use the monthly theme units with my special ed students. They experience academic success as they are able to read the books and complete the activities that go along with each one. Kinderplans is an integral part of my of teaching materials and I look forward to any new resources that will become available. Thank you for creating such a wonderful web site. Karen Pollack

Teaching Preschool and Kindergarten Reading Using the Emergent Readers

Sample Pages from the Free Friendship Theme

Using these readers as a shared reading experience will provide you with a powerful tool to teach beginning reading skills. The reader "A Retelling of the Kissing Hand" would be used after reading the book. The story line is simple and repetitive, allowing the children to read (pretend read) independently after it has been introduced during shared reading time. A sample page is found in the link below. This reader is found in your FREE Friendship theme.

Sample Page from the Reader - Color Version

Sample Page from the Reader - Black and White Version

Kindergarten and Preschool Lesson Plans that Provide You With Center Suggestions - Learning Games

View the video below to see how the emergent readers and games can be used as powerful teaching and learning tools.

Kindergarten and Preschool Lesson Plans and Themes that Help You Connect With Literature

Many of the themes have related literature selections and follow-up activities. For example, after reading the "The Kissing Hand" the reader found in your free sample Friendship theme, would be used to model the reading process. A sample page from the reader is found in the link above.

Theme Units That Offer You Over 150 Templates to Complete Your Craft Projects

The template to the right would be used as a follow-up craft activity to reading the book "The Kissing Hand" and corresponding emergent reader. This is an example of how the lesson plans have been carefully designed to integrate the different learning strands.

Preschool and Kindergarten Writing Lesson Plans and Activities

Each theme unit provides writing activity suggestions. An example of this can be found in your free sample theme unit. Throughout the theme, discussions will take place on being a good friend. After shared writing time, the children would complete the writing/craft project displayed on the left. The children write (or an an adult assistant) what is a good friend is. The chart used during shared writing time would be used as a guide.

Preschool and Kindergarten Lesson Plans That Help You Teach the Alphabet and Related Sounds Effectively

Using picture mnemonics has proven to be an effective way for children to learn the alphabet and their related sounds. The children would be introduced to the letter "'Oo" for "octopus" and its related sound after reading the emergent reader "Ollie Octopus Explores the Sea" and singing the related song from the Alpha Tunes CD. The picture mnemonic craft activity displayed on the right would be completed after to help reinforce the sound/symbol relationship. This activity is found in the "Ocean" theme unit.

Alphabet Program

More information on the alphabet program can be found in the link below:

Alphabet Program

Resources That Help Integrate Your Math Lesson Plans - Lesson on Shapes

After reading the book "The Little Engine That Could' by Watty Piper the children could be introduced to various shapes used to complete the math/craft activity displayed to the left (the little engine). The templates to complete the craft are included in the membership. This would be taught in conjunction with using the "Transportation" theme unit.

Connection to Music

The song "Jellyfish Jiggle" song would be used in the Ocean theme to introduce the letter "Jj". It would be used in conjunction with the emergent reader "Exploring the Sea with Ollie Octopus" which introduces the letter "Jj" within its story context. The song is from the "Kinderplans Alpha Tunes" CD.

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