Kindergarten Resources for Teachers

Alphabet Booklet Fun - Garfield the Cat introduces the alphabet. Use these letter booklets to identify letters, identify phoneme, write the letter and more!
Alphabet Desktop Strips - Print these and tape on the desks to help students learn their letters.
Balanced Literacy - Need help with your Kindergarten reading program? Check out how this teacher uses center time. Be sure to click on the links to see each center. Also, under Center Philosophy is how to manage centers.
Behavior Sites.
1. Behavior - The Challenge of Kindergarten - An article on the traits of young students; Through an understanding of the dynamics of behavior in children, the Kindergarten teacher can redirect the discouraging misbehavior of children to that of something more useful
2. Behavior - Dealing Effectively With Children's Mistaken Goals - A chart with suggestions guiding a misbehaving child away from a mistaken direction.
3. Behavior - I am the decisive element in the classroom - Short mantra for teachers.
Circle Time- Everybody Wins! - cooperative and non-competitive games for kids
Classroom Organizational Links - Having problems setting up your environment? Here are numerous links to get your classroom better organized for center management, time management and classroom organization.
Concentration - Test your students on the power of observation. Create the parts of a face to match the image.
Concentration - Fun Tiles - Test your power of concentration with this multi-leveled activity.
Graphic Organizers - Great resource for sheets on organizing information.
Discovery Bottles for Center Activities - Many ideas on what to put in Discovery Bottles for a center time activity.(may be blocked by some school filters)
DonnaYoung.org - printables and resources for home schooling and classrooms
Dr. Jean's Activity of the Month - Dr. Jean's web site - full of ideas and activities.
Drag and Drop Activities - Various skill activities such as ABC order, contractions and others in a drag and drop environment where students practice mouse skills along with academic skills in dragging items next to those that match to their counterparts. Only works with Internet Explorer 4.0+. If you want to create your own, this site shows you how!.
Easy Reader Books - Free download. These books come with word Bingo games and Flash cards for each story. The books also come with an altered version where words are left out for students to fill in the blanks.
Fingerplay - fingerplays for the classroom.
K-2 Handbooks - (math and reading) PDF files to download for each child to assess their progress - assessment test booklets with core topics
Kidspiration Lessons- Many ideas on how to use this program to integrate technology into your classroom. (KidSpiration required to read the files)
Mouse Control - Learning Activities for Primary and Preschoolers. Scroll down the page and on the right side are many fun activities used to practice mouse control for little hands and fingers.
Mouse Control - Learn to click and drag to make faces. try a different face
Mouse Skills - Click and find the hidden pictures. Good preschool activity
Names - How many things can you do with a name to help a child recognize and spell his/her name? Well, check this out!
Nursery Rhymes - Listen to the rhymes, print out posters, print out sequencing cards and more! A SmartBoard resource, too!
Parental Involvement - 100 School-Home Links activities for the kindergarten level. The activities are organized by reading and literacy skills appropriate to this grade. Under each specific skill, there are varying numbers of activities to help children develop their ability to read and write. From the U.S. Department of Education. (for first grade parents) (for second grade parents) (for third grade parents)
PBS Kids - Mr. Rogers, Barney, Arthur and other links to games and activities - Shockwave required
Peep and the Big Wide World - A variety of interactive games;. After getting to the page, click on the Interactive games tab at the top. You will have to view each one of the games to see what each game's curricular objective is.
Personal Educational Press - Create free educational worksheets such as flashcards, game boards, and quizzes to print. Make tracing sheets, quizzes, study sheets, word lists, bingo cards, word scrambles, word searches and more!
Phonemic Segments - Deletion and Substitution - Lanolin's Greenhouse - Click on the object that matches the new word with beginning letter replacement. (The pronounciation of letter phonemes on this site is one of the best I have seen on the web)
Phonemic Segments - Deletion and Substitution - Pumpkin Patch - Click on the object that matches the new phoneme without the beginning letter sound. Excellent practice for students that have a hard time hearing individual phonemic parts! (The pronounciation of letter phonemes on this site is one of the best I have seen on the web)
Preschool Printables - Name tags, bulletin boards, folder games, stickers, lesson plans and many other templates to print to help teachers.
Signs for Center time with Concepts included - What are we Doing? - Colorful signs with explanations for each center.
Snakes and Ladders - Remember this game from your childhood? It's online now!
Spatial Concepts - Illustration of various spatial relationships. Good to use as examples of up, down, through, etc. A few of them are interactive so children can move pieces to show spatial concept.
Teacher Extras - Ready-made creative signs for your centers, job charts, name tags and more!
Teacher Tools - Alphabet Soup - Name plates, alphabet blocks, bookmarks and more. D'Neilian and Zaner-Bloser style (beware of numerous pop ups!)
Technology and Curriculum for Kindergarten - Article about technology and Early Childhood Education
Tools for Educators - worksheets, worksheet creators, printables wizard and on-line teaching materials makers with images
Writing Paper - Excellent resource to print out all types of paper for your students' needs.