Kindergarten Winter Break Reset | Week After Winter Break Lesson Plans + Review

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Do you feel like your Kindergarten class needs a reset button after winter break? Take the stress of planning for the week after winter break off of your plate, while feeling confident that you’re reviewing all the important procedures and routines.

The Kindergarten Winter Break Reset is an all-in-one unit that will plan out your ENTIRE week after winter break for you!

What’s included in this unit?

The Kindergarten Winter Break Reset includes 5 days of lesson plans for:

• Morning meeting
• Shared reading poem
• Literacy Interactive Read Alouds
• Phonics
• Winter Break Reset – Reviewing Supplies
• Winter Break Reset – Reviewing Procedures and Routines
• Writing
• Math
• Social Studies

Why do you need the Kindergarten Winter Break Reset? How good would it feel to know that your entire first week back from winter break is planned and ready to go? You can rest easy knowing that you’ll be reviewing all important procedures and routines, getting a refresh in classroom rules and expectations, and starting the new year strong in academics.

If you were a fan of the First Week of Kindergarten unit, you’ll love the Winter Break Reset!

Take a look at the lessons:

LITERACY

The whole group literacy time will use the Interactive Read Aloud model as you read the same text all week. Each day you will focus on:

• Characters
• Settings
• Retelling and sequencing
• Vocabulary
• Making connections

PHONICS

The phonics lessons will review all letters of the alphabet and give a soft start to stretching and writing CVC words.

• Monday: letters mastp
• Tuesday: letters nicpn
• Wednesday: letters horbl
• Thuesday: letters kegwv
• Friday: letters ujyxyz

WRITING

These writing mini lessons will give your students a review and boost into writing sentences.

• Drawing detailed pictures
• Labeling our pictures
• Writing a sentence to match the picture
• Sentences have a naming part
• Sentences have a telling part

MATH

For math, you will have the option to work with numbers to 10 or teen numbers and numbers to 20.

• Comparing numbers to 10
• Number sense to 10 or 20
• Number order to 10 or 20
• 2D shapes review
• Real-life 2D shapes

WINTER BREAK RESET

There are two winter break reset times each day. The first will focus on using supplies, while the second focuses on classroom procedures and routines.

• Monday: Using crayons and hallway expectations
• Tuesday: Using scissors and glue and lining up
• Wednesday: Using markers and centers routine
• Thursday: Caring for books and centers routine
• Friday: Listening and centers routine

SOCIAL STUDIES

The social studies time will focus more on classroom rules and expectations. This will meet the social studies standards focusing on citizenship.

• Classroom routines
• Hallway expectations
• Bathroom routines
• Recess safety in the winter
• Classroom choices at school

INCLUDES 10 NO PREP CENTERS!

Kindergarten literacy center mats:

• Beginning sounds magnet match up
• CVC words spin, build, cover
• Beginning sounds cover by code
• CVC words cover by code
• Beginning sounds spin and cover
• CVC words spin and cover

Kindergarten math center mats:

• Spin and build numbers
• Spin, build, and compare
• 2D shapes cover by code
• 2D shapes spin and cover

What else is included?

• Winter morning greetings
• Winter deep breathing exercises
• Snowflakes, Snowflakes winter poem for shared reading
• Winter poem visualizing
• Winter poem student reader
• New Year Resolutions craft and bulletin board display
• Alphabet Letter flash cards with alphabet motions
• At the Carpet expectations poster
• Hallway expectations poster
• Listening expectations poster
• Listen and Laugh activity
• Ten frame matching cards
• 2D shapes flip and match
• 2D shapes posters
• Student math mats no prep games
• Writing paper options
• Parts of a sentence posters
• 5 social stories books about classroom expectations and safety
• Student worksheets
• 10 no prep Kindergarten math and literacy centers mats

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS:

Will this unit work for other grade levels? The Winter Break Reset was designed with Kindergarten standards in mind. It would also work well for Pre-K. First grade teachers, keep an eye out for your reset coming soon!

Will this unit require a lot of prep?

Most of this unit is print and go for you. There are a few activities that will require you to gather supplies or do minimal cutting. The social studies books included can be bound, but they can also be displayed digitally for a no prep option.

When will the Kindergarten Winter Break Reset work best? This unit was designed for the week after winter break, however, it could also be used anytime in the winter for a refresher.