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April Themes for Kindergarten

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.

April Themes for Kindergarten

The Benefits of Thematic Units in April

Thematic units are helpful in the kindergarten classroom all year long, but they are especially effective in April.

  • Review and Reinforce Skills: Students are getting ready to take a long break! Themed learning gives you a chance to review and reinforce important literacy and math skills after spring break and before summer vacation.
  • Seasonal Engagement: With students looking forward to another holiday, themed learning allows you to help students channel that excitement into beneficial learning activities.
  • Hands-On Learning: It can be tricky to keep students engaged in learning as spring progresses. The hands-on activities of a thematic unit can help motivate students to stay on task as they practice important academic skills.

Would you like to use thematic units in your classroom this month? Check out some highlights from my favorite April kindergarten themes!

Insect Unit for April

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!

Insect Literacy Activities

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. 

Insects informative writing flipbook

Your students can compile all of the things they’ve learned about insects into their own flip books!

All About Bees craft

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.

Completed My Favorite Insect Craftivity

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!

Insect Math Activities

You can also incorporate some buggy fun into your classroom math practice!

Buggy teen numbers ten chart mat

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. 

Number sense mini reader page

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.

Favorite insect data worksheet

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.

Insect Crafts

In addition to the crafts mentioned above, students will love this 3D butterfly life cycle craft! 

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!

Grouchy ladybug craftivity

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!

Easter Unit for April

Even though Easter occasionally falls in March, it’s always fun to bring some bunny fun to the classroom during the month of April.

Easter Literacy Activities

There are so many fun Easter-themed activities that you can use to help your students practice literacy skills. 

Chick themed rhyming activity

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. 

Building words with egg letter cards

Students can also practice creating words with lettered Easter eggs! This word-building activity is great practice for your budding readers!

Sentence unscrambling activity

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. 

Easter Math Activities

You can also bring some Easter fun to your math practice!

Decomposing numbers flip book

Give your students a strong foundation for addition and subtraction by helping them practice composing and decomposing numbers.  

Sorting addition equations onto rabbits

This sorting activity can also help students practice addition and subtraction with a fun rabbit theme!

Stealing carrots subtraction activity

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! 

Sorting M&M candy by color

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

Easter crafts can also double as writing practice for your students!

A painted egg craft and descriptive writing activity

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!

A Bunny Trouble writing activity and craft

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.

April Thematic Units Bundle

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.

April Thematic Units, Including an Easter and Insect Unit
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Save These Kindergarten April Themes

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April themes for kindergarten