Printable Kindergarten Worksheets | Worksheets for kids

Learning should be fun, even more so in kindergarten.Kindergarten Worksheets are very useful in helping kindergarten children learn and re-inforce basic concepts in an interesting way. Worksheets for kids can be of great use. Children learn best by doing and also children get bored very easily; hence giving them well-designed, illustrated worksheets to do makes it easier and more fun for them to learn. Completing a worksheet also gives a child a great sense of fulfillment. Printable kindergarten worksheets can be of significant value in the kindergarten learning process. Of course worksheets for kids should form only one part of the learning. There must be a lot of other activities and games for children. And worksheets for kids should be fun and interesting with nice pictures, cartoons and so on.

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There are many workbooks available for kindergarten children. A good option is to use printable kindergarten worksheets. The advantage is that you can print out whichever sheet you wish. If you need to re-inforce a certain concept more you can usually print out that sheet again. Thus using printable kindergarten worksheets is often more advantageous.

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Keep these points in mind to get the best out of kindergarten worksheets:

1. Use worksheets appropriate to a child's level. Give an easy worksheet for each concept, immediately after you teach that concept. Scroll down below to see some sample kindergarten worksheets.

2. If a child finds any activity too tough, give him an easier one. It is important that the child doesn't get frustrated. Keep in mind that different children have greatly varying levels of comprehension and pace of learning.

3. It will good if the worksheets are well-illustrated. Use of cartoon characters would make it far more interesting for a child. Encapsulating common situations encountered at home, school, in the market place etc and using common objects known to children would make the worksheets more relevant.

4. Try to supplement each worksheet with a practical, real-life activity. For example after a worksheet on counting, you can ask the child to pick out 3 bananas and 2 apples from many. Scroll down below to find some suggested activities to help children learn the alphabet, numb ers and counting.

5. Remember, a child is learning many new things at once. A child of this age has an amazing capacity to learn many new things fast. However, he can also forget them equally fast. Doing many interesting worksheets with cartoons etc would be fun for him and would help continually re-inforce what is learnt.

6. Do give positive feeedback and encourage a child. His finer motor skills are just developing. Do not have him write until he is fully comfortable with holding a pencil. Do not expect or try for perfection. Spend sufficient time and continually re-inforce the learning in day-to-day situations. Most importantly, it should be fun for the teacher and the taught!

Kindergarten worksheets can cover the following content for the first year of kindergarten (junior kindergarten)

Mathematics: Identification of numbers (1-20), Numbers in sequence (1-20), Counting(1 - 20), Identification of numbers (21 - 100), Numbers in sequence (21-100), Counting (21-100), Numbers and number names, Before-after-between, More & less, Comparison of numbers & Identification of common shapes

General Knowledge: Animals, Birds, Fruits & Vegetables, Parts of the body, Vehicles, Things we eat, Days of the week, People at work & Things we do

Colouring: Colouring pages

English: Identification of capital letters (A to Z), Identification of small letters (a to z), Capital and small letters, Letters in sequence, Matching pictures with letters, Matching pictures with words, Words with short vowel sounds, writing simple words, On & In, opposites, Colors, & One & many

You can buy worksheets in the form of a bound workbook. You can also buy and download printable worksheets, which you can then print out at home in your own printer.

Printable kindergarten worksheets are available online for download and print. This offers several adavnatges:

1. You can download them instantly, print out and start. You don't have to order and wait for weeks.

2. You can buy and download from the comfort of your armchair. You don't have to travel long distances to visit the bookshop.

3. They are usually priced quite reasonably, though this may vary. You have do your own analysis on this one.

4. With printable sheets you can print out only the relevant sheets; for example if the workbook contains sheets too advanced or too elementary for your child, you need not print them out at all. In effect you can customize a workbook with only sheets appropriate for your child. Thus she will not get frustrated by trying out sheets beyond her skill.

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5. You can usually print out any sheet as many times as you need. Thus if your child needs more practice on any particular concept you can print out multiple copies of those sheets.

Of course the flip side is that you need to have a printer and supply of paper!

There are many such printable worksheets for kindergarten children available online. You can download one such set of 108 worksheets below:

Printable kindergarten worksheets for Mathematics, G.K and colouring.

Download 108 printable kindergarten worksheets for Mathematics, G.K and colouring

While kindergarten worksheets do offer an enjoyable way to children to reinforce basic concepts, for better results and for a better experience they should be accompanied by other real (physical) kindergarten activities. In addition you should try to reinforce learning by integrating it in your day-to-day life. This make learning natural, avoids monotony and importantly gives an essence of where the learning is going to be really used in life.

Here are a few suggestions you may consider in teaching children to identify the letters of the alphabet:

• The alphabet song: Perhaps the most basic, but very useful. Sing it slowly/distinctly and sing it often. Have a large alphabet chart and point out to each letter while you sing. If you can give all children letter cards in order (alphabet flashcards) they can even hold up each letter as it is sung.

• Write a letter on the board and have children say it out in chorus. Write it out slowly each time it is said.

• Bring models of the letter (you can make cut-outs of the letter in card-board) and pass around to all children. If you can make sufficient numbers you can give one to each child. They can slowly build up a collection of the entire alphabet.

• Keep models of various letters on the table and ask children to pick up the correct letter.

• Write several letters on the board and ask children to choose the right letter. Initially do not write letters with very similar shapes that may confuse children at an early stage. Later, when they are more accomplished they will be better equipped to avoid confusion.

• Bring objects or models of things that start with that letter. For example: for B you can bring a ball, bat, banana etc. Pass around these for all to see.

• Have different objects on the table. Ask children to pick out objects that start with the given letter.

• Call on a child whose name starts with that letter. He or she can say, for instance, Hello, I am Arun. ‘A’ for ‘Arun’ and so on. He can be the leader for that day.

• Show a magazine or picture book to children. Ask them to identify all instances of the given letter in any page.

• Play ‘Hunt For The Letter’. Ask children to look around the room and pick up all objects that start with the letter.

• Use colouring pages often. Most children love to colour. The colouring pages should have letter in large size to colour. They may also have objects that begin with the letter.

• Hand out letter cards to all children. Call out a letter. The child with that card has to come in front of the class and display the letter.

• The above activity can also be done with picture cards. In this case the child with the picture that starts with the letter called may come and show the picture. Then the class can say in chorus, for ex: ‘B’ for ‘Ball’

• Divide the class into two groups. Give one group letter cards. Give other group various objects. The first group will hold up a letter. The second group should hold up an object that starts with that letter.

• Kindergarten Worksheets: Use worksheets to help children re-inforce basic concepts in a fun and interesting way.

Here are a few suggestions you may consider in helping children learn to count and identify numbers:

1. Children must learn the sounds of the numbers ‘one’, ‘two’, ‘three’ etc first. Sing number rhymes like, ‘One, two, three, four, five; once I caught a fish alive,’ aloud to them often. Soon they will begin to recognize the sounds of the numbers.

2. Read out stories from picture books and emphasize counting. For example, read aloud stories like ‘The three little pigs’ and ‘Snow-white and the seven dwarfs’. Make it a point to count out the characters in the picture book. This will enable them to understand the concept that the numbers relate to specific amounts.

3. Children then need to understand ‘how many is three,’ ‘how many is four’ etc. Use common objects like marbles, pencils etc. Keep them in groups to show ‘how many’ is 3 or 4 and so on. In the beginning touch each object when you count. Let children start slowly first and learn to count upto 3, and then gradually one by one the number may be increased.

4. Use every opportunity to re-inforce counting skills in practical situations. For example the child could count out three biscuits, two bananas etc.

5. The child needs to be able to relate the number to a symbol i.e identify the shape of the written number. For each number, bring models of the number (you can make cut-outs of the number in card-board) and pass around to all children. Try to make many so that you can give one to each child. They can build up a collection of the numbers 0 to 9.

6. Use lots of number colouring pages as most children love to colour. The colouring pages should have numbers in large sizes to colour. They may also have that many number of common objects to colour.

7. Kindergarten Worksheets: Use worksheets to help children re-inforce basic concepts in a fun and interesting way.