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Stock up on these teaching essentials and get a head start on a productive school year.
Whether you’re approaching your first year of teaching kindergarten or you’re a kindergarten veteran, stocking up on essential class resources can make a big difference in your students’ success.
While this year’s return to the classroom may look a little different—with new protocols such as social distancing and book quarantining in place—having your supplies and class library organized from the start can offer peace of mind as the school year progresses.
Here are the best kindergarten teaching resources to make the school year ahead a success!
Brynn Schaefer, a kindergarten teacher in Ohio, says a class calendar was pivotal to her first year of teaching kindergarten.
“I was able to add holidays that my students celebrate and have students decorate a cupcake to add on their birthday,” she says. “Singing a ‘months of the year’ song and a ‘days of the week’ song was the center of our morning circle time. Students loved looking for patterns on the calendar!”
Develop calendar skills with this dynamic chart featuring 25 adorable songs set to familiar tunes! Display this engaging resource all year long to enliven and enrich your daily calendar routine with songs for each month and season.
The items Schaefer would have loved to have on hand when she first started? “I wish I had a variety of Scholastic learning mats and learning puzzles!” she says.
“These are easy, ready-to-use materials that can be added into literacy and math centers,” she adds. “Having these would have saved me so much time in finding and creating other center resources.”
Pocket charts are also an easy and effective way to set up learning centers for your kindergarten class!
Colorful mats, letter tiles, and picture cards make learning and practicing the alphabet fun. Start building a foundation for academic success with the Learning Mats: Match, Trace & Write the Alphabet kit.
This colorful set includes an activity guide and 26 self-checking, three-piece puzzles designed to be used in two ways—as two-piece puzzles and as three-piece puzzles as children progress.
Schaefer also wished she had a more diverse class library during her first year, as it allows for more enriching conversations in her kindergarten classroom.
“Having characters that look like your students, and also look different from them, is extremely important,” she says. “Students need to see themselves in books to relate to them, and they need to see characters who are different to learn empathy, compassion, and acceptance.”
Colorful mats and word tiles make learning and practicing sight words fun. Start building a foundation for academic success with the Learning Mats: Sight Words kit.
The kit helps children practice key reading skills, such as identifying long-vowel sounds and words, distinguishing the long-vowel sound in words, writing words with long vowels, and more.
These ready-to-use activity mats give young children the focused practice they need to really learn essential phonics skills.
The 20 self-checking, 5-piece puzzles in the set are designed to help children develop automaticity (fluency) with alphabet recognition skills.
Each puzzle in this set is unique—great for self-checking—and features a target word at the center and four rhyming picture/word puzzle pieces!
This collection features an array of diverse titles to add to you classroom library, such as Because Dragons Love Milk, Caring for Your Lion, Dreamers, and more.
It is vital that young students are introduced to the rich history and contributions of Black Americans that continue to shape the United States of America. This collection of titles features age appropriate stories of the perseverance, sacrifice, and ingenuity that make up this history.
This collection of quality Scholastic titles was hand selected to provide you with the best books at the best prices. The set comes with several titles, including The Adventures of Sparrowboy, Amadi's Snowman, El Chavo: El Partido de Fútbol/The Soccer Match, and more.
This collection of multicultural titles was hand selected to provide you with the best books at the best prices.
This pocket chart features 10 see-through plastic pockets.
Full-color photo cards include 10 subject cards, 5 blank cards, and 1 title card. Also includes a 2-page activity guide.
Convenient and sturdy plastic bins for storing books and teaching materials help keep your classroom resources neat and organized!
Recognize student achievement with these colorful must-have mini stickers!
Suit up for a daring adventure as this young hero navigates the unknown reaches and alien inhabitants of a strange new world.
This upbeat tale features easy-to-follow rhyming text, expressive illustrations, and familiar classroom scenes.
A creative young boy wants a pet for The Amazing Pet Show, so he catches a fly-little knowing that Fly Guy will become a great friend!
Paperback Book Collection
National Geographic Kids: National Geographic Kids Collection Grades K-3
This collection of National Geographic Kids titles was hand selected to provide you with the best books at the best prices.
Dirt on his new shoes? First day of school? Pete the Cat knows how to take it all in stride.
Best-selling picture book creator Mo Willems leaps into the early reader arena with the Elephant & Piggie series.
These early readers feature a favorite, cuddly puppy who just can't stay out of trouble.
This workbook targets key skills that will help your child reach important learning milestones.
Put children on the path to reading success with this fun, engaging activity book! This book targets 100 key sight words.
Wipe Clean Workbooks: Pen Control encourages children to practice their writing skills while introducing them to basic concepts essential to pre-school learning.
Make learning the alphabet fun with this colorful workbook!
Alphabet recognition and phonemic awareness are the basis of early reading success—this product helps children begin building that foundation.
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