Kindergarten Reading & writing Holidays Lesson Plans

In this lesson, students will explore the life cycle of a pumpkin plant. Then they will have the chance to grow their own!

Writing letters and creating intricate drawings requires being able to draw straight and curved lines. Thanksgiving can be a great time to practise making these lines in fun and decorative ways!

Finding reasons to be grateful is a big part of the Thanksgiving season. Students won’t forget these reasons once they write them down!

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.

Holidays are an exciting part of a child’s life, and Valentine's Day can make winter a little brighter! As students celebrate and explore the fun of Valentine's Day through activity centers, a loving feeling will soon fill the air.

Bells are a musical instrument, symbol of the holiday season, and way to practise letter knowledge in this yummy interactive activity! Students will love identifying upper and lowercase letters in this delicious matching game.

In this lesson, students will learn about the history of Thanksgiving. They will identify things they are thankful for and then write about it!

Help your students learn uppercase and lowercase letters while teaching them about environmental responsibility with an Earth Day letter scavenger hunt.

The Earth is full of beautiful colors. Help students to see, sort, and identify these in this lesson celebrating Earth!

In this fun, enticing, and educational lesson students will have the chance to explore Halloween through a variety of different centers.

Happy Halloween! Celebrate the spookiest day of the year with this fun-filled lesson on colors and the difference between real and pretend.

Your students will help the world go round with this activity that teaches them how to be green! Use this activity to wrap up a week of learning about helping our Earth, or as a stand alone lesson.

Celebrating holidays can be more than just a party! Using this lesson plan, students will celebrate St. Patrick's Day and work on their colour word recognition.

Animal lovers will rejoice with this lesson about the Chinese zodiac animals. It will give young students a whole new meaning to the year they were born!

What says St. Patrick’s Day more than leprechauns? After reading a story, get students to use recycled materials to make their their own leprechaun traps. They will use the story's setting as inspiration for their projects!

It’s your students’ lucky day! Get students celebrating St. Patrick’s Day by going on a clover hunt.

Young children's imaginations can run wild! In this lesson, they'll get to put their creativity to good use (and test their sequencing skills!) as they think about all the things the Easter Bunny might do during his day.

Young students like order and categorization. They’ll get both along with reading skills practise in this Thanksgiving-themed alphabetizing lesson!

Roses are red, violets are blue, I love Valentine's Day, and you should too! In this lesson, students will take part in various Valentine's Day activities, incorporating simple writing exercises and maths into the holiday fun.

Science offers lots of opportunities for writing! In this lesson, students will celebrate Earth Day with trees, science, and writing.

Getting students excited for Easter can also make them better readers! By the time Easter comes, students will be familiar with lots of useful words after completing this lesson.

Talking about erosion, pollution, and human destruction of the rainforest can help open up a whole new understanding of the world to young students. This lesson will help students to connect their lives with a bigger picture.

Who knew maths and reading could create Thanksgiving turkeys? Your students will "read" directions to draw shapely turkeys in this independent art activity.

Young students love a good matching game. Using this lesson plan, they'll review their upper and lowercase letters while celebrating the Chinese New Year!