Kindergarten: Free Study Materials and Practice

Kindergarten Math

6 lessons

Adding and Taking Away
The child solves small story problems by joining and removing objects or fingers and says how many there are now.
Comparing Length, Weight and Capacity
The child compares and orders up to three objects by length, height, weight or capacity and starts to measure with simple non-standard units.
Counting to 100 in Ones and Tens
The child counts aloud to 100 in ones and in tens, continues the count from any number and spots patterns on a hundred chart.
Counting to Ten
The child counts up to ten objects in any arrangement, counts out a given number from a larger group and knows the total stays the same when objects are moved.
Flat and Solid Shapes
The child names common 2D and 3D shapes, describes their sides, corners and faces in everyday words and builds with them.
Sorting and First Charts
The child sorts objects into categories, counts each group and compares the groups in a simple object or picture chart.

Kindergarten Language Arts

5 lessons

First Letters and Their Sounds
The child links a first set of letters to their sounds in the order the local reading method uses, and recognises them in words around them.
New Words Every Day
The parent adds new and precise words during play, books and routines; the child uses new nouns, verbs, describing words and category words in their own talk.
Dialogic Reading at Home
The parent reads with the child using prompts and expansions so the child does more of the talking; the child answers and asks questions about pictures and stories.
Telling and Retelling Stories
The child retells a familiar story in order with story language and tells short stories about their own day; the parent scaffolds with props, pictures and sequence words.
Writing a First Sentence
The child says a short sentence aloud, then writes it with taught words and sounded-out spellings, spaces between words, a capital letter at the start and a full stop at the end.

Kindergarten Science

3 lessons

What Animals Need
The child names common pets, farm and wild animals, describes their body coverings and food, and matches animals to the places they live and the care they need.
Being a Scientist
The child asks simple questions, observes closely with a magnifier, sorts and compares, carries out a simple test with help and records results in pictures, tally charts and pictograms.
Push and Pull Forces
The child shows that pushes and pulls can start, stop, speed up, slow down or change the direction and shape of things, and tests how ramp height or surface changes how far a toy rolls.

13 lessons

African American History
The child meets African Americans whose courage, ideas and work shaped the United States, follows their story from African homelands and slavery to freedom, civil rights and today, and explains why the country remembers…
American Symbols and Holidays
Read together: the child recognizes the American flag, the Pledge of Allegiance, the bald eagle, the Statue of Liberty, the Liberty Bell and the White House, and says why Americans celebrate Independence Day,…
Caring for Our Shared World
The child takes part in caring for shared spaces and nature: tidying, reducing waste, sorting for recycling and being gentle with living things.
Changes within Living Memory
The child compares daily life, toys, school, technology and transport now and when parents and grandparents were young, and explains what changed and what stayed the same.
Focus and Persistence
The child keeps going with a challenging task, tries another way and remembers simple rules in games; the parent uses play that builds attention, memory and self-control.
Healthy Habits for Food, Teeth, Sleep and Screens
The child follows healthy routines for eating, brushing teeth, sleep and screen time and can say why they matter in simple words.
Maps and Compass Directions
The child reads simple maps and plans, uses a globe and compass directions, and makes a map of a familiar place with a key.
My Neighborhood and Simple Maps
The child describes familiar places and routes, uses position words to talk about them and reads and draws simple maps.
Goods and Services
The child sorts needs from wants and goods from services, meets the jobs people do in the community and why they work, and sees that people make choices because they cannot have everything.
Children's Rights
Explain why groups need rules and make fair ones, understand rights and responsibilities, get to know the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, and know what to do when rights are not respected.
Significant People and Why We Remember Them
The child learns about the lives of significant people from different times and places, and discusses why people are remembered and how they changed things.
Keeping Children Safe
The child follows simple safety rules at home, near roads and water, and knows how to get help from a trusted adult.
Then and Now
The child talks about the past using family photos, old objects and stories from older relatives, and notices what has changed.

Kindergarten Health Education

2 lessons

Exercise, Sleep and Hygiene
The child explains why daily activity, enough sleep, handwashing and toothbrushing keep them healthy, and builds routines for them.
Health Labels, Ads and Medicines
The child spots how adverts and packaging try to make them want food, toys and health products, reads simple labels, knows that medicines are taken only from a trusted adult, and knows where to find health help and…

Kindergarten Computers & Technology

2 lessons

Sequences and Debugging
The child programs a floor robot or on-screen sprite with a sequence of commands, predicts what it will do, and finds and fixes mistakes.
Online Safety
The child keeps personal information private, uses strong passwords, behaves kindly online and knows when and how to tell a trusted adult.