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April is a great month to add thematic learning to your classroom! Students are energized after spring break and everyone is starting to think about the end of the school year. I wanted to share some of my favorite April themes for kindergarten. You can use these themes to bring some extra fun and engagement to your lessons this spring.
Thematic units are helpful in the kindergarten classroom all year long, but they are especially effective in April.
Would you like to use thematic units in your classroom this month? Check out some highlights from my favorite April kindergarten themes!
Once spring is finally in full swing, it’s always fun to have an insect theme in the classroom! There are so many ways to incorporate math and literacy practice as students learn all about insects!
As you read non-fiction books about insects together as a class, you can document all of the facts that you’re learning about insects.
Your students can compile all of the things they’ve learned about insects into their own flip books!
You can continue learning about specific insects, one at a time, so students can see the similarities and differences between different types of insects. For each insect you learn about, students can create a fun writing craftivity for their favorite facts about that insect.
After learning about a variety of different insects, your students can practice their writing skills as they create this fun insect writing craft! They can share about their favorite insect and why they chose it as their favorite. The adorable net craft creates an interactive lift-the-flap that makes a great spring bulletin board!
You can also incorporate some buggy fun into your classroom math practice!
For example, this insect mat gives students a chance to practice teen numbers! Students can add dots to the ten frames to model each teen number.
Then students can move on to other bug-themed teen number activities, like this number sense book! They can add a different representation of the teen number to each part of the caterpillar.
You can also use insects as the inspiration for a graphing activity! Students can vote on their favorite insect by placing their vote on a classroom anchor chart. After all of the votes have been tallied, students can graph and interpret the class data on their own graphing worksheet.
In addition to the crafts mentioned above, students will love this 3D butterfly life cycle craft!
Students will label each part of the butterfly life cycle as they complete this fun activity. They are always so excited to see that their crafts can stand up by themselves!
You can also use crafts to accompany other insect books that you read with your class. This grouchy ladybug is always a hit with students!
Even though Easter occasionally falls in March, it’s always fun to bring some bunny fun to the classroom during the month of April.
There are so many fun Easter-themed activities that you can use to help your students practice literacy skills.
This lift-the-flap activity helps your students practice phonemic awareness skills. Students will match the picture on each egg to the chick that is holding a rhyming picture.
Students can also practice creating words with lettered Easter eggs! This word-building activity is great practice for your budding readers!
This sentence unscrambling activity is another themed reading activity that your students will enjoy. Students will take a set of cards and put the words together to create a sentence.
You can also bring some Easter fun to your math practice!
Give your students a strong foundation for addition and subtraction by helping them practice composing and decomposing numbers.
This sorting activity can also help students practice addition and subtraction with a fun rabbit theme!
For even more subtraction practice, you can add this carrot-themed activity to your learning routine. Students will model each subtraction equation by feeding carrots to the bunny!
An Easter treat is a great way to practice sorting and graphing! Students can open a pack of Easter candy and sort it by color using the mat provided. Then, they can graph and interpret their data.
Easter crafts can also double as writing practice for your students!
After decorating a blank Easter egg, students can practice descriptive writing! They can write sentences to describe how their eggs are decorated. These make such a fun bulletin board display for Easter!
You can also create a craft to go along with a read-aloud! After reading “Bunny Trouble” as a class, students can write about how they would save Ralph. They can then create their own bunny to go with their completed writing.
If you would like to use these themes in your classroom this April, I’ve put together a bundle to save you some time! This bundle has all of the themed printables for each unit as well as book suggestions and a sample unit plan for each theme. You’ll be able to put together fun seasonal learning activities for your students with minimal prep time!
To take a closer look at everything included in this bundle, just click below to find it in the A Spoonful of Learning shop or on TPT.
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These alphabet books will have students dive deep into learning about each letter of the alphabet while eager to see what activity they get to complete next!
