Common Core ELA · Kindergarten
Use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to compose informative/explanatory texts in which they name what they are writing about and supply some information about the topic.
Why water teaches this standard well
Students combine drawing, dictating, and writing to tell a reader something true about water, such as where rain comes from or what a water tower does. Labeling a simple picture of the water cycle or a faucet gives beginning writers real information to share.
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Kindergarten Lesson plan
A kindergarten observational drawing lesson: children study the hallway drinking fountain up close, draw it big enough to fill the page, and add the pipes in the wall.
Kindergarten Lesson plan
A 30-minute kindergarten lesson in which students hear how water reaches Yarrowgate School, then draw and label a tank, a pipe, and a tap on one page.
Kindergarten Lesson plan
A 35-minute kindergarten lesson at a fictional school where students compare clear and painty rinse water, learn where the drain goes, and make a wipe-first rule sign.
Kindergarten Lesson plan
A 35-minute kindergarten art lesson in which children draw a drying puddle in white crayon, then brush blue paint across the page to make the hidden water appear.
Kindergarten Lesson plan
A 35-minute kindergarten careers lesson turning the classroom into four rooms of a water plant, with a prop station and a worker-to-room matching page.
Kindergarten Lesson plan
A 30-minute kindergarten careers lesson about the utility worker whose whole job is helping people use less water, with a classroom tap check and drawing.
Kindergarten Lesson plan
A 35-minute kindergarten lesson on rainy-day health habits: where playground rainwater goes, why puddle water is not for drinking, and washing hands after outdoor play.
Kindergarten Lesson plan
A 30-minute kindergarten lesson on sink safety: naming the cold and warm taps, testing water with the back of one hand, and sorting eight sink jobs.
Kindergarten Lesson plan
A 30-minute kindergarten lesson where children carry a pail across the room, sort long-ago and today water pictures, and label one town improvement.
Kindergarten Lesson plan
A 25-minute kindergarten lesson where students trace water's path from a tall town tank to the Foxglove School fountain and draw a labeled picture naming one fact.
Kindergarten Lesson plan
A 30-minute kindergarten lesson where students sort trash from natural objects found near a fictional creek and draw one way to help keep it clean.
Kindergarten Lesson plan
A kindergarten careers lesson introducing three real water-sector community helpers through a read-aloud, a tool-sorting game, and a draw-and-dictate activity.
Kindergarten Worksheet
A kindergarten page on close-up drawing: children compare a far-away and a close-up picture of a dripping tap, then draw a big close-up page for a class book.
Kindergarten Worksheet
A kindergarten worksheet about a visit from Bramlow's town weather watcher, where students tell questions from statements, ask one, and write her a note.
Kindergarten Worksheet
A kindergarten worksheet that teaches the words clear and muddy, traces how mud reaches Muddleford Creek, and asks whether planting grass on bare dirt helps.
Kindergarten Worksheet
A kindergarten careers worksheet about a water lab tester's sample tray, with nine read-aloud items on counting, comparing, adding, and subtracting within 10.
Kindergarten Worksheet
A kindergarten careers worksheet where students pack a water crew's gear bag by sorting seven read-aloud items, then count the gear and draw one piece.
Kindergarten Worksheet
A kindergarten health worksheet set on a park field trip, sorting six water pictures into safe to drink and not safe, then drawing one way to keep the pond clean.
Kindergarten Worksheet
A read-aloud kindergarten worksheet about a water main break on a made-up street, with nine picture-and-tell items about who helped and what they did to fix it.
Kindergarten Worksheet
A kindergarten worksheet where students sort pictured items into ones that belong at Willowmere Pond and ones that are trash, then dictate why trash can hurt the fish.
Kindergarten Classroom activity
Kindergartners rotate through four texture stations, picking rough, bendy, soft, and shiny pieces, then build a layered collage of a rain garden below a downspout.
Kindergarten Classroom activity
A 35-minute kindergarten rotation where small groups sort drain cards, order the rain's path down Rainswick Lane, and draw a labeled sign for a storm drain.
Kindergarten Classroom activity
A 30-minute kindergarten matching activity where partners pair ten shops on a made-up street with the water job each one depends on, then build a class paper street.
Kindergarten Classroom activity
A 25-minute kindergarten circle activity where children hold role cards, take cups from a pretend creek until they run out, and dictate two creek rules.
Kindergarten Classroom activity
A 25-minute kindergarten relay game where students carry a foam ball water drop through Tank, Pipe, and Fountain stations at Thistle Row and draw the path they moved.
Kindergarten Reading passage
An original kindergarten read-aloud in which a town water crew finds the leaking pipe that stopped the Juniperton school fountain, with oral questions and a key.
Kindergarten Reading passage
A kindergarten read-aloud about a girl whose grandpa washes the car on the grass so soapy water sinks in instead of running to the creek where ducks swim.
Kindergarten Reading passage
A kindergarten read-aloud about a night operator who sees a red light blink, starts a second pump, and keeps the town's tank full, with six questions.
Kindergarten Reading passage
A kindergarten read-aloud passage following a boy from a hot recess run to his water bottle, connecting drying sweat with a puddle drying in the sun.
Kindergarten Reading passage
A kindergarten read-aloud passage about the pipe, the hydrant, and the fire truck on a made-up street, with six questions about how a town built help that arrives fast.
Kindergarten Reading passage
An original kindergarten read-aloud story that follows a single water drop from a fictional reservoir through a treatment plant and tower to a school sink.
Kindergarten Writing prompt
A kindergarten draw-and-dictate prompt where students make a park sign telling visitors one way to keep a fictional duck pond clean, and why that action helps.
Kindergarten Graphic organizer
A three-column kindergarten organizer sorting twelve everyday water pictures into water we drink, water we wash with, and water we stay out of, with a filled exemplar.