Half preschool, half first grade

Kindergarten Lesson Plan Templates

Kindergarten plans by subject block against standards like the grades above it, and still needs centers, movement and a closing circle like the room next door. The weekly grid here holds both: phonics, reading, writing, math and science or social studies as rows, with centers, specials and recess kept on the sheet instead of assumed.

The week, the centers, the day

3 kindergarten lesson plan templates

Landscape kindergarten weekly plan with nine subject-block rows from morning meeting to closing, five weekday columns and three boxes for standards, small groups and notes

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Kindergarten Weekly Lesson Plan — Word & Google Docs

Subject blocks down — phonics, reading, writing, math, science and social studies — with the centers, specials, recess and closing a five-year-old's day still needs.

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Kindergarten Weekly Lesson Plan — fillable PDF

One page, landscape. Type into the fields or print it blank and handwrite.

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Portrait learning centers plan with eight center rows from blocks to writing and three columns for materials, learning focus and check-in question, plus rotation and next-week boxes

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Learning Centers Plan — Word & Google Docs

Eight centers down the side — blocks to writing — with materials and setup, the learning focus, and the check-in question you will ask when you stop by.

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Learning Centers Plan — fillable PDF

One page, portrait. Type into the fields or print it blank and handwrite.

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Portrait elementary daily plan with eight subject-block rows from morning meeting to closing circle and columns for time, standard, plan and materials

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Elementary Daily Lesson Plan — Word & Google Docs

Eight subject blocks from morning meeting to closing circle, each with time, standard, plan and materials, and a small-groups box at the foot.

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Elementary Daily Lesson Plan — fillable PDF

One page, portrait. Type into the fields or print it blank and handwrite.

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Specifications: US Letter, 8.5 × 11 inches. Word files are editable .docx that open in Word 2007 through Microsoft 365, including Word for Mac; the Google Docs link makes a copy in your own Drive; the PDF has real form fields and prints as plain hairline boxes when blank. Free to use in as many classes as you like, no account, no watermark.

Why it is laid out this way

About the kindergarten templates

A kindergarten template that is just the elementary grid drops the centers; one that is just the preschool grid has nowhere for the standard. This one is a hybrid on purpose. Phonics and word work has its own row because it is its own block in nearly every K schedule now; centers and choice has a row because it is where differentiation actually happens; and the standards-this-week box at the foot keeps the codes off the cells so a cell can hold what you are doing.

The learning centers plan is the companion kindergarten teachers asked for more than any other sheet: eight centers down the side, the materials in each, what it is for, and the question you will ask when you stop by. It is the plan that turns a center from busy time into instruction, and it doubles as the page an observer wants to see when they ask what the children in the block area are learning.

Questions teachers ask

Kindergarten lesson plans, answered

Should kindergarten use a preschool or an elementary template?

Neither fits: public-school K is not under child-care licensing, so the posted activity plan is the wrong document, but a straight subject grid loses the centers and rest that a five-year-old's day still has. The weekly grid here is written for the actual K schedule. If your school hands you an elementary form, the daily plan on this page is the one that fills it.

Where do guided reading groups go?

In the small-groups box at the foot of the weekly grid, by group name with the text and the skill. A dedicated guided reading planning sheet with running-record notes is the first thing on the subjects list for this section.

What is the check-in question on the centers plan?

The one question you will ask a child in that center to find out what they are thinking — how do you know your tower won't fall? what happens if you add one more? It is the difference between supervising a center and teaching in it, and writing it down in advance is the only reliable way to ask it.