What Kindergarten coversLetters, counting and the habits that make everything after this easier.
What they learnKindergarten
The first year is about noticing patterns, hearing sounds inside words and getting comfortable holding a pencil. Everything below is practised little and often rather than all at once.
Early math
Numbers as amounts you can see and count, not symbols to memorise.
- Counting to 20
- Recognising written numbers
- Comparing more and less
- Sorting by size, colour and shape
- Simple repeating patterns
- Naming 2D shapes
Browse early math exercises Reading readiness
The sounds letters make, and the habits that come before reading itself.
- Letter names and sounds
- Rhyming words
- First sight words
- Hearing the beginning sound
- Following a story left to right
Browse reading readiness exercises Writing and spelling
Forming letters, then using them to write the words they know best.
- Letter formation
- Writing their own name
- Beginning and ending sounds
- Copying short words
Browse writing and spelling exercises Words and language
Building the everyday vocabulary the rest of school leans on.
- Naming everyday objects
- Opposites
- Describing words
- Following two-step directions
Browse words and language exercises Science and the world
Looking closely at ordinary things and saying what they notice.
- The five senses
- Living and non-living
- Weather and seasons
- Animals and where they live
Browse science and the world exercises Critical thinking
Reasoning practice that is not tied to any one subject.
- Sorting and grouping by a rule
- Spotting the odd one out
- What comes next in a pattern
- Simple cause and effect
- Picture puzzles and mazes
Practised across the worksheets aboveFine motor skills
The hand control that makes everything else on this page possible.
- Tracing lines and curves
- Colouring inside the lines
- Cutting along a line
- Threading and matching
Practised across the worksheets above