Kindergarten Lesson plan
One Rainy Day on Lamplight Lane: A Retelling Lesson
A 30-minute kindergarten lesson where students order five picture moments from one rainy day on Lamplight Lane and retell them using first, next, and last.
Common Core ELA · Kindergarten
W.K.3 Narrative writing
Use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to narrate a single event or several loosely linked events, tell about the events in the order in which they occurred, and provide a reaction to what happened.
Why water teaches this standard well
Kindergartners draw, dictate, and write to narrate a single water event in order, such as a rainstorm from the first cloud to the last puddle. Retelling the journey of a raindrop gives the whole class a shared sequence of events to put into words.
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9 materials aligned to W.K.3
Lesson plans
Kindergarten Lesson plan
The Day Hollow Rock Got Its Town Pump
A 30-minute kindergarten lesson about one improvement a made-up town built, where children order four picture cards of the work and draw the day the pump first ran.
Kindergarten Lesson plan
The Puddle That Disappeared: A Sparrow Hill Water Cycle Story
A 25-minute kindergarten lesson where students retell the story of a playground puddle in order, from rainfall to sunshine, and dictate a reaction to the water's path.
Kindergarten Lesson plan
The Sunshine Water Bag: A Kindergarten Water Cycle Lesson
A 30-minute kindergarten lesson in which the class tapes a bag of tinted water to a sunny window, predicts what will happen, and narrates the setup in order.
Worksheets
Kindergarten Worksheet
Aspen Court's Cloud-to-Puddle Sequencing Worksheet
A kindergarten worksheet where students put four pictures of a rainy day at Aspen Court in order and dictate what happens to the puddle after the sun comes out.
Classroom activities
Kindergarten Classroom activity
From the Lake to Our Tap: A Ferrywood Water Order Game
A 30-minute kindergarten careers activity where students hold eight picture cards and line themselves up in the order water travels from lake to school tap.
Reading passages
Kindergarten Reading passage
One Drop at Whistlebrook Farm: A Kindergarten Read-Aloud
An original kindergarten read-aloud about a drop of water that rises from a farm puddle, joins a cloud, and falls back to the farm as rain, with oral questions.
Kindergarten Reading passage
The Day the Water Went Off at Fernbank School
A kindergarten read-aloud story about a school morning with no running water, the wipes and jugs that kept hands clean, and the crew who fixed the broken pipe.
Kindergarten Reading passage
When the Snow Melts at Fiddler's Bend
A kindergarten read-aloud passage about spring melt in a made-up hill town, with six questions on where the melt water goes and what the town crew and the farmers do.