Early Childhood Lesson Plans : Page 3

What makes winter so special? What about spring, summer, and fall? In this lesson students will get to think all about what happens in each of the four seasons!

It's time to rhyme with this lesson on matching rhyming pairs. Your students will love creating their own classroom I Spy book based on rhyming pairs.

Catch some Z's with this activity that helps your class familiarize themselves with the letter Z. Students will learn about zookeepers and draw a six-part person.

Valentines come in all shapes and sizes, but the most precious are those spoken from the heart. This Valentine’s Day lesson plan will require students to verbally name and describe shapes based on their characteristics.

Get your hands dirty with some beach matching! Use this hands-on activity to help your students match upper- and lowercase letters with sea creatures and bubbles.

Play with pumpkins! In this lesson, students will make representations of real objects. They will get a chance to be the authors and illustrators of their own stories about pumpkins.

In this lesson, each student will create a unique insect graph! Discuss how many insects are on each line and which lines have the most, least, or equal amounts.

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.

This interactive lesson features The Mitten by Jan Brett. Students will have a great time acting out the story and developing their reading skills.

Read and roll! This interactive game can be used as an engaging activity or an assessment tool that allows you to easily monitor your students’ ability to blend phonemes together to create words.

Rhyming, moving, coloring and silliness...How can your class resist? Your students will love reading and moving with a poem, writing the letter S, and designing their own socks!

This hands-on lesson is sure get your students excited about ocean life. Your little marine biologists will have a great time listening to clues and finding different ocean animals.

Help your students discover how to read and spell word family words containing the short and long I sound.

In this lesson, your students will practice counting by putting the correct number of worms into an "apple." They will practice identifying quantity without having to count the numbers one by one.

Use this introductory lesson to teach your students how to sort and categorize! This can be used as a stand-alone or support lesson for the Categorize It lesson plan.

In this lesson, students will fill their barns with farm animals by matching, identifying, and connecting the sounds of letters with their symbols.

In this counting lesson plan, your students will practice using numbers 11 to 20 while learning about comparison.

If you ask your students if they need ice cream, the answer may surprise you! In this lesson, your students will be able differentiate between wants and needs.

In this mini-lesson, your ELs will learn all about 2D shapes using hands on practice! This can be used as a stand-alone or support lesson for the Shape It Up lesson plan.

This wacky lesson combines math and reading practice with a Dr. Seuss classic and some fun online games.

Break the ice with this social lesson, designed to help you and your class get to know each other. This social studies lesson helps students develop a healthy sense of self, and ties in well with any "All About Me" theme or unit.

We all love to tell stories, but a good story is clearly organized. In this lesson students will learn how to use transition words and strong endings when writing narratives.

In this hilarious math lesson, students will learn about addition patterns of one more using animal feet to guide them!

Get your students excited about art with this cute fingerprinting activity. It utilizes color to help kids learn about the different fingers on a hand.

Engage your students in a fun, hands-on lesson about addition using a well loved topic—birthday presents!

Prepare students for more complex math skills and build their current math skills with this hands-on lesson.

Fishing for new ways to review letters? Let your preschoolers cast a line to catch an uppercase fish and return it to the corresponding lowercase fishbowl.

Use a well-loved fairy tale to inspire your kindergarten students to plan out their very own fairy tale stories.

In this fun lesson all about sharing ideas, students will get an overview of partnership rules, and time to practice working with a partner. This can be used as a stand alone or pre-lesson for the Me and My Partner lesson plan.

What preschooler doesn't like dogs? This fun, hands-on lesson plan features dalmatians, fire safety, and matching numbers to quantities.