$10 - $20 Kindergarten Thematic Unit Plans (by date, oldest first)

FIVE sequencing crafts for five of my favorite Old Lady stories!

Bring reading, writing, and a love of vocabulary to your students! Introduce fun, new, thematic vocabulary words with this bundle of Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Chinese New Year, Valentine's Day, and other Winter Holiday vocabulary word wall cards and spelling word work worksheets. These make a great supplement to holiday activities or as a fun and educational way to count down to the winter holidays!

This money-saving bundle includes the Christmas Word Work Pack, the Hanukkah Word Work Pack, the Kwanzaa Word Work Pack, the Chinese New Year Word Work Pack, the Valentine's Day Word Work Pack, and the matching Winter Holiday Vocabulary/Word Wall Cards at 20% off the cost of the items individually.

Each of the no-prep word work packets includes 1 set of worksheets, except the Christmas packet which includes 2 sets of worksheets**.** Each worksheet set comes with 10 different activities and more than 25 worksheets! That's a total of more than 150 worksheets. There are a few tracing versions of the worksheets included as a bonus for students who need review or for homeschooling families where younger siblings want to play along!

*All words used in the word work packs are in the word wall card set that is included in this bundle.*

Words in the Christmas packet include wreath, tree, nutcracker, lights, candy cane, ornament, gingerbread, caroler, stocking, presents, reindeer, fireplace, cookies, holly, poinsettia, and snowglobe.

Words in the Hanukkah packet include star, presents, gelt, dreidel, sufganiyot, latkes, applesauce, and menorah.

Words in the Kwanzaa packet include straw mat, unity cup, crops, corn, kinara, table, presents, and flag.

Words in the Chinese New Year packet include dragon, coin, envelope, lantern, knot, blossom, firecracker, and tangerines.

Words in the Valentine's Day packet include cupid, arrow, rose, valentine, heart, chocolates, balloons, and candy hearts.

What's Included?

6 sets (2 for Christmas and 1 for each of the other holidays) of each of the following:

-Write the Words - includes five versions to meet students where they are

-Alphabetical Order - includes four versions, one is a cut & paste

-Word Search

-Syllable Sort - includes two versions, one is a cut & paste

-Write the Plural

-Unscramble the Words

-Write and Draw - includes two versions

-Spinner Games - includes three versions

-Dice Games - includes three versions

-Write It 3 Ways - includes two versions for students to write with pencil, pen, and marker

Plus, Word Wall cards and a matching write-and-wipe tracing version of each card for the following holidays: Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, New Year's Eve, Chinese New Year, Valentine's Day, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Groundhog Day, and President's Day.

Check out the preview above for visuals of each type of worksheet and the word wall cards!

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Weather Vocabulary Cards

Four Seasons Vocabulary Cards

Fall Vocabulary Cards

Fall Holiday Vocabulary Cards

Year Long Holiday Vocabulary Cards Bundle

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Create an unforgettable Christian summer experience with "The Ultimate VBS Summer Camp Planning Book - Christian + Bible." This comprehensive guide is designed for anyone looking to organize a vibrant Vacation Bible School (VBS) or summer camp. Packed with Bible-based activities, Christian-themed crafts, and lesson plans, this book ensures your camp fosters spiritual growth and fun. Perfect for churches, youth groups, and Christian educators, this essential resource simplifies planning for a faith-filled VBS or summer camp.

Are you a small camp struggling with the high costs of VBS (Vacation Bible School)? I understand the challenge, having spent seven years creating and writing my own VBS to support my small camp. Now, I am excited to share my Summer Camp Program Planning Package, over 170 pages of meticulously crafted content designed to elevate your camp experience without breaking the bank.

All-Inclusive Resource for Camp Organizers

• This comprehensive resource equips camp organizers with everything needed to create an extraordinary summer camp. From detailed schedules and creative crafts to engaging Bible lessons and thrilling gym games, this package is a treasure trove of inspiration and organization.

Key Features:Extensive Six-Week Collection (170 Pages)

• Our Summer Camp Program Planning Package offers a robust collection of 170 pages, providing carefully curated schedules for six weeks of camp. Each schedule balances structured activities, free time, and special events, ensuring daily excitement and engagement.
• Creative Crafts with Step-by-Step Instructions: Inspire campers with a wide array of craft ideas, each with detailed step-by-step instructions. From friendship bracelets to nature-inspired masterpieces, these crafts foster creativity and provide campers with lasting memories and tangible mementos.

Bible Lessons for Daily Spiritual Growth

• The package includes comprehensive Bible lessons for each day of camp, seamlessly integrating faith-based teachings. These lessons promote spiritual growth through engaging activities, thought-provoking discussions, and memorable stories, helping campers develop a strong moral compass and meaningful connections with their peers.

Thrilling Gym Games Galore (Over 50 Pages)

• Keep campers active and energized with over 50 pages of gym games. From classic favorites to innovative team challenges, these games promote teamwork, physical fitness, and healthy competition, building essential life skills such as communication, strategy, and sportsmanship.

"Welcome to Camp" Handbook for New Staff

• Set your new staff members up for success with our specially crafted "Welcome to Camp" handbook. This invaluable resource provides comprehensive information on camp policies, procedures, safety guidelines, and practical tips, ensuring a seamless integration into the camp community from day one.

Weekly Themes and Bible Studies:

Week 1: Building Our Foundation on the Rock

• Theme: The Solid Rock
• Bible Verse: Matthew 7:24
• Lesson Summary: Focuses on the importance of building our lives on Jesus, the solid foundation.

Week 2: Discovering God's Creation

• Theme: The Wonders of the Sea
• Bible Verse: Psalm 150:6
• Lesson Summary: Explores the beauty and wonders of God's creation in the sea, highlighting God's power, creativity, and love.

Week 3: Walking on Water

• Theme: Trusting Jesus
• Bible Verse: Matthew 14:27
• Lesson Summary: Covers the story of Jesus walking on water and emphasizes the importance of trusting Jesus in life's storms.

Week 4: The Pearl of Great Value

• Theme: Finding True Treasure
• Bible Verse: Matthew 13:44
• Lesson Summary: Teaches the parable of the Pearl of Great Value, emphasizing the importance of seeking and treasuring God's kingdom.

Week 5: Beach Blessings

• Theme: Gratitude for God's Abundant Blessings
• Bible Verse: Psalm 107:1
• Lesson Summary: Reflects on God's blessings and the importance of gratitude and using blessings to help others.

Week 6: Trusting God's Plan

• Theme: Journey to the Stars
• Bible Verse: Proverbs 3:5-6
• Lesson Summary: Explores the story of Joseph from Genesis 37-50, emphasizing trusting God's plan even in difficult times and how God works for our good.

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Need a way to introduce or reinforce color words for back to school? This resource plans it with daily activities to use for your kindergarten learners. Students will:

• Learn to recognize all the major color words
• Work on fine motor skills with coloring, tearing, cutting, etc.
• Work on gross motor skills as they sing and dance when singing the songs

You can even have students wear the color of the day for a fun bonus!

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Fall Halloween Bundle

Over 150+ activities included in 9 packets for Fall and Halloween fun!

Descriptions:

Activity Packet 1: Halloween Coloring Sheets

40 pages

Halloween fun with 40 coloring sheets (nothing scary!) of:

pumpkins
scarecrows
friendly ghosts
haunted trees
haunted house
Dracula
Frankenstein
and more...

Non-controversial and with lesson plan ideas to encourage coordination, multi-tasking skills, writing, listening, reading, storytelling, puppet theater, and more. Great for introducing Halloween as a friendly holiday.

Activity Packet 2: Eerie Writing Prompts

21 pages

Eerie story starters to get your students in the mood for writing scary stories! Great visuals with one liner story starters. Colorful and imaginative prompts for creative writing practice and peer workshopping.

Includes:
Perhaps we could become friends...
Two eyes peered back at me...
I've had a very interesting life!
Come closer...
Let me tell you how I ended up here...
C'mon out...there's nothing to be afraid of!
Meet my new friend
The eerie glow of the pumpkin...
I know what you did!
Have a seat and let me tell you my story!
The howl of the wolf scared me.
Something went bump in the night
I started up the winding road...
The blaze lit up the night's sky...
Let me show you my castle!
"Help!" screamed the principal.
We found the shipwrecked boat...

Great Halloween writing prompts for practicing creative writing, storytelling, and peer workshopping skills!

Activity Packet 3: Get Fit Action Story: Frank N. Stein’s Haunted Horse

15 pages

Get students exercising and moving as they follow along with Frank N. Stein's move to a new neighborhood, where he finds new friends to help make his house a home. Action words include:

looked around
moped
juggled
skipped rope
frown
blow
shivered and shook
dropped to the ground
ran
slammed
quiver
danced
stood still
knock
jump
shook hands
waved
stepped to the right
boogied to the Monster Mash
shouted,
“Happy Halloween!”

Practice/assess coordination, comprehension, fitness, following directions, listening, and sight words with Get Fit Action Stories. Use for daily warm-ups, rainy day indoor activities, PE, reading, and learning styles. Fun and enjoyable for all!

Activity Packet 4: Write a Scary Story with Word Banks and Coloring Images

16 pages

16 Halloween coloring images with holiday word banks that include:

Cats
Bats
Dracula
Frankenstein
Ghosts
Pirate
Pumpkins
Trick or Treat
Witches
Zombies
and more...

Includes: Suggestions For Use sheet and template to create your own vocabulary word bank. Upper levels can use for poetry and contest writing. Fun way to assess writing skills in an ELA classroom. Grab a blanket and flashlight, turn on the lighted pumpkin, and have a classroom read-around of Halloween stories.

Activity Packet 5: Wacky Wayne’s Halloween I-Spy

11 pages

10 I-Spy Halloween pictures and items to help students with basic letters, hand-eye coordination, and matching skills. Can be colored and displayed. Includes:

Ghost
Frankenstein (2)
Bat
Haunted House
Mummy
Dracula
Scary Tree
and more...

Fun matching activities for early elementary students.

Activity Packet 6: Wacky Wayne’s Fall I-Spy

11 pages

10 I-Spy handouts with fall themes. Find and match basic letters and shapes. Includes:

Scarecrows
Farm
Farmer
Pumpkins
Squirrels
Leaves
Shapes
Basic Letters
and many more...

Handouts can be colored and displayed.

Activity Packet 7: Halloween Color, Count and Match Activities

22 pages

22 Halloween themed handouts for early learners to practice math skills, such as:

coloring/motor skills
counting
holiday
matching
numbers 1-10
sight words
themes
(No controversial or scary images!)

Find the correct Halloween symbol sheet to match the handout then cut, color, and paste. Practice basic numbers and sight words recognition, as well as matching symbols. Can be used for assessment. Includes extra activities and ideas for use of handouts.

Activity Packet 8: Fabulous Fall Activities

26 pages

25 fall themed creative writing handouts, poetry sheets, coloring activities, and more for elementary grades:

Includes:
Fall Scavenger Hunt
Classmate Scarecrow (Facebook page with Scarecrow)
"F is for"
My Pumpkin Poem (writing & craft activity)
Fall Acrostic Poem
What I love about fall
Create a Fall Feast party invitation
Write a Fall Story (with fall vocabulary word bank)
Write a tongue twister (with fall vocabulary word bank)
Draw a fall scene in the camera's lens
How many words can you make from "corn and oats"
Quack! Quack! If I were a duck...
Design a sign to sell your veggies/photos
My Fall Message for You
My Favorite thing to do in Fall
Fall interview
Fall newspaper
Fabulous Fall Recipe
Fall word search
& more...

Lots of creative and engaging handouts and activities for fall fun!

Activity Packet 9: Falling Leaf Spelling Activities

18 pages

15 Fall themed scenes that provide sight word/consonant and vowel practice. Falling leaves contain letters which can be written on the lines to make as many words as possible using consonants and vowels. Color the scenes, put together letters to make words, compare answers, small team game included.

Includes:

Fall scenes: trees, scarecrows, farm, farmer, pumpkins, squirrels, and more...
Basic alphabet letters: vowels and consonants
Directions with Optional Play and Use

Great for consonants, vowels, spelling, vocabulary, and writing practice, as well as assessments.

Fall Halloween Bundle includes over 150+ fun activities!

This low prep Kindergarten ELA and Read Aloud Curriculum is just what you need to implement a successful ELA Reading block during the first month of back to school. Unit 1 is titled Welcome to School and provides lessons and activities paired with specific read aloud picture books that require kindergarteners to focus on the theme of "How to Make the Classroom a Joyful Place".

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Is this reading curriculum for you?

✓ Are you a kindergarten teacher who NEEDS an ELA Curriculum?

✓ Were you provided with little or NO curriculum at all?

✓ Do you homeschool and need a resource that is engaging and interesting?

✓ Do you need to supplement a current program that you feel may be "lacking" or "too slow"?

Note: I do not provide copies of the books needed. You will need to purchase the books yourself, borrow from a library, or use YouTube read aloud videos!

What is Included?

⭐ 11 days of lessons

⭐ 11 Lesson Plans

⭐ 11 PowerPoint Slides

⭐ 10 Discussion Questions (one for each book)

⭐ 9 Alphabet Sounds with proper mouth formation images and movements ----- letters included in Unit 1: a (short vowel), m, s, t, e (long vowel), r, d, f, and l

⭐ 9 sight words (the, I, and, a, is, as, said, to do)

⭐ 6 Do Nows (proper letter formation, tracing lines, tracing letters, writing letters -- 1 do now for 2 lessons)

⭐ 11 Opinion discussion prompts (on the slides)

⭐ 16 Vocabulary Words (mostly 1 word per lesson, but 2 lessons have more than 1)

⭐ 11 Exit Tickets (Kinder's unit 1 teaches students how to draw a picture to answer questions)

⭐ End of Unit Assessment (Lesson 11)

What Books Are Needed:

→ Wemberly Worried

→ King of Kindergarten

→ I Like Myself

→ I Am Every Good Thing

→ The Crayon Box That Talked

→ Amazing Grace

→ Ruthie and the Not So Teeny Tiny Lie

→ Words Are Not For Hurting

→ Today I Feel Silly & Other Moods That Make My Day

→ You Hold Me Up

This resource will grow to have 8 units total. The units will focus on:

❤️ Unit 1: Welcome to School

❤️ Unit 2: Noticing Patterns in Stories

❤️ Unit 3: Celebrating Fall

❤️ Unit 4: Falling in Love with Authors and Illustrators

❤️ Unit 5: Winter Wonderland

❤️ Unit 6: What is Justice?

❤️ Unit 7: Exploring Life Cycles

❤️ Unit 8: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

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Our Backyard Chickens study is fun, engaging, informative, and easy to follow! We have created seven lessons with only one required book, *Chickenology: The Ultimate Encyclopedia by Barbara Sandri and Francesco Giubbilini. *Our study is the perfect thematic unit for grades K-5! Our four children helped create this study, and we are excited to share it with your family! 

Did you know chickens do not suffer hearing loss with age? Their damaged hearing cells are able to regrow!

A Cochin chicken was imported to England around 1850 as a gift to Queen Victoria!

Highlights include

• 24 Chicken Breed Cards with fun facts!
• 18 vocabulary cards
• Activities for each lesson
• Learn how eggs are produced and how they are used around the world!
• An egg experiment
• Get an up-close look at chicken feathers.
• Chicken anatomy
• Chicken instincts
• Chickens and music!
• Chickens and their relationship to humans
• Chickens through history
• How chickens can help your own yard
• The perfect recipe for a happy henhouse!
• We share our own recipes, photos, and videos. 
• Cover art, science, history, geography, language arts, and math!

We suggest the book, Farm Anatomy, but it is not required! Thank you!

This product focuses on the following areas:

This mental health curriculum includes suggested activities and tips to support mental health education and instruction for students in Pre-K through 3rd Grade. Depending on students ability levels, this product could be used in 4th - 6th grade as well.

Self Management - Tips for self care to promote mental health and overall well being/feelings and resiliency. This product includes a teacher guide with tips and tricks when teaching mental health and mindfulness - focusing on feelings. Students will learn what feelings are, why it is important to talk about feelings, who to talk to about feelings, a list of feelings, situations that require students to identify the kinds of feelings that may be felt - students can write their response or circle the feeling picture provided on each page, students will also be provided with 5 picture of girls and boys showing different feelings. Students will be required to identify how these children are feelings. This product includes a blank human body image, where students can draw how they are feeling. Students will also be given an opportunity to draw a face to show how they are feeling today or felt yesterday. A teacher guide with tips and tricks when teaching resiliency, coping skills, and setting goals is included in this product. Students will learn what resilience and coping mean, the different meanings of resiliency, what to do when we experience a tough time, examples of resilience that students can relate with and how they can improve next time or bounce back, steps that help build resilience, examples of healthy coping skills, how to include healthy coping skills into your daily routine, and setting goals.

Relationships - communication skills, empathy, compassion, and acceptance, and gratitude and forgiveness. This product includes a teacher guide with tips and tricks when teaching the skill - listening, understanding body language, and giving and receiving information. Students will identify different facial expressions and discuss how they are feeling when presented with different images, students can also play a variety of games such as telephone, 20 questions, and a body language game. Students will learn about empathy, compassion, and acceptance which will help identify the characteristics of different types of relationships, personal space and boundaries of others, students will look at a variety of pictures to determine healthy/unhealthy relationships between families and friends, learn about the circles program - different relationships we have with people we know, invading personal space and how to avoid doing that, interview a friend and ask them questions using turn taking strategies to develop healthy peer relationships. Students will also learn about gratitude and forgiveness for so they understand the meaning of gratitude and forgiveness along with a variety of ideas to carry this out, and students can answer questions/circle images presented in the product showing what they are grateful for.

Resource Management - what, when, and where to ask for help for self and others, and how to ask for help for self and others. Students will identify and express a variety of feelings, demonstrate the use of I-messages to express feelings honestly and effectively, and identify the words that are commonly used in I-messages. an I-message/statements sheet for students to fill out is included in this product, and a list of coping skills is provided to share with students. Students are also able to add onto the list provided. A coping skill bookmark template is included for students to draw/write down coping skills on a bookmark that they can look at in times of feeling stressed/upset. Building trust activity ideas are provided in this product for students to build trust with others they know well, tips for students to interact with school counselors, social workers, and school psychologists are also included in this product. Students will learn who to trust and how they can trust them. Students are also provided with the opportunity to draw who they trust or write down their names as well

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This bundle includes CHOICE boards for Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, Valentine's Day, & Easter! Print or share and go!

A black and white version and color version for easy printing. 5 activities in each of the 6 areas: math, literacy, life skills, fine motor, sensory/art, and music/gross motor. Each CHOICE board has 30 activities - enough to last 5 days/e-learning/distant learning days; for a total of 5 weeks/150 activities.

Also included--supply lists and supplement pages for many activities.