Students will listen to a close reading of The 3 Little Pigs over the course of 3 days.  (Many versions are accessible via NC Kids Digital Library.  Teacher discretion as to the story version.  Personal copy or online versions can be used.) After each read aloud, students will have the opportunity to engage in The Engineering Design Process to create a new dwelling using materials of varying physical properties.  Students will write to tell about their new dwelling design using sentence frames and an anchor chart for support.  Finally, students will present their new dwellings and read their informational writing to reflect their knowledge of physical properties.  Student informational writing should reflect physical properties such as size, color, shape, texture, weight and flexibility per the NC Kindergarten Science Standards.

 To launch:  Read “Albert’s Alphabet” by Leslie Tryon Students will then “build” the letters of their name using provided materials or you can assign groups of students letters, so that the class can “build” the alphabet. 

For this game, students work in pairs drawing two cards and naming something that is ALIKE or DIFFERENT between the two cards. The pairs draw two more cards and repeat the process until there are no more cards. The game can be played whole group or as a competition.

Students will review their knowledge about the life cycle of frogs and butterflies by using a bee-bot to make a path to the correct stages of the life cycles. This would be a review lesson for kindergarten students that have already learned about the life cycles of frogs and butterflies.

A Project Based Learning Outline for Citizenship and Martin Luther King Jr. Day. To be used with Kindergarten, 1st or 2nd Grade, as fitted with standards.

This lesson serves as a review for line, shape, color, and pattern for all students. The lesson also reinforces these concepts in english for ESL students. All students participate in speaking, writing and creating activities. Also, students are introduced to the NC Museum of Art through a virtual field trip.

This lesson serves as a review for line, shape, color, and pattern for all students. The lesson also reinforces these concepts in english for ESL students. All students participate in speaking, writing and creating activities. Also, students are introduced to the NC Museum of Art through a virtual field trip.

This electronic version of Concentration reinforces students' understanding of shapes. Students can play with clear panes or with the windows closed to match shapes with their names. The game can be played with one or two players and can also be used to practice addition and subtration facts, fractions and multiplication.

Introduction and use of multiple tools in Seesaw in order to improve expressive language and intelligibility skills for speech and language students.

In this interactive, students practice identifying flat and solid shapes. This can also be used as a class review activity.

Students will listen to a close reading of Harry the Dirty Dog  over the course of 3 days.  (The book is accessible via NC Kids Digital Library.   Personal copy or online versions can be used.) After each read aloud, students will have the opportunity to engage in The Engineering Design Process to create a maze using various materials to construct different ways for Harry to move through the maze .  Students will write to tell about their maze using sentence frames and an anchor chart for support.  Finally, students will present their maze and read their informational writing to reflect their knowledge of the Force and Motion standard, specifically the different ways objects move.  Maze creation and student informational writing should reflect multiple modes of movement per the NC Kindergarten Science Standards.

This Unit has been adapted for DL classes (Eng/Spa).  This is a kindergarten Unit.

Students will learn how to say hello in five different languages. This activity focuses on the different cultural languages spoken throughout the world. Students will learn how to say, ?Hello? in five different languages?Spanish, Portuguese, French, Swahili, and Japanese. (Adjust this to the diversity of the students in your class or area you wish to study.) Just as there are differences in the way we look around the world, there are also differences in the way we speak.

This is a task assessment to assess students' understading of K.G.2 and K.G.3. An activity page and rubric are included with this resource.

This parent guide supports parents in helping their child at home with the Kindergarten English Language Arts content.Within the folder you will access Parent Guide PDFs in FIVE Languages: Arabic, English, Hindi, Spanish, and Vietnamese to help on-going communication with caregivers. 

This unit was created by the Rethink Education Content Development Team. This course is aligned to the NC Standards for Kindergarten ELA in Speaking and Listening.

This document provides ideas to increase fluency and confidence for emerging readers.  These ideas can be used during whole-group or small-group reading sessions, guided reading groups, or independent practice.

This parent guide supports parents in helping their child at home with the Kindergarten Math content.Within the folder you will access Parent Guide PDFs in FIVE Languages: Arabic, English, Hindi, Spanish, and Vietnamese to help on-going communication with caregivers. 

This resource accompanies our Rethink Kindergarten Math Counting & Cardinality unit. It includes ideas for use, ways to support exceptional children, ways to extend learning, digital resources and tools, tips for supporting English Language Learners and students with visual and hearing impairments. There are also ideas for offline learning.