May Morning Work for Kindergarten
With the end of the school year in sight, it’s more important than ever to lean on familiar classroom routines as much as possible. A consistent arrival procedure can set the tone for the entire day, which is really helpful during the remaining weeks of the school year. In this post, I’m going to share some May Morning Work for Kindergarten that you can add to your end-of-the-year lesson plans.
The Importance of Kindergarten Morning Work in May
As the school year is winding down, it’s common for some classroom routines to fall by the wayside as schedule changes and exciting events become a regular occurrence. However, morning work is one routine that can support your students through the end of the year!
- Consistency: For young students, a consistent classroom routine can set the tone for the entire day. When the arrival routine is hectic, it can feel like you’re spending the rest of the day catching up!
- Skill Review: Your students are getting ready to take a long summer break! A morning work routine can help you add some much-needed review to your busy schedule. This will help students sharpen their skills before the year comes to an end.
- Check-In: As the pace of the school year continues to accelerate, your morning routine can become a much-needed time for checking in with your students. This is especially helpful for your kindergarteners who need extra warning for changes in the schedule. (Which are so common in May!)
Kindergarten Morning Work Ideas for May
In order to experience the benefits of a morning work routine, the activities you choose need to be developmentally appropriate. It’s important to set up students for success with morning work activities they can easily complete independently.
Here are some morning work ideas that most of your students can likely complete with minimal support by the time May rolls around.
Counting
By the end of the school year, your kindergarteners have come a long way with counting! They have strengthened their foundation of number sense and are able to count in multiple ways, including skip counting!
Your morning work routine can include counting activities that give students the chance to review one-to-one correspondence, teen numbers, skip counting, and more!
Teen Numbers
It’s also helpful to include teen number practice in your morning work routine for May. This can be a tricky concept for young kindergarteners, so the additional review is always helpful!
In this morning work activity, students will identify the teen number on the page and then fill in the ten frames to model that number. This one morning work activity combines number identification, counting, and even subitizing practice! This can help students become more comfortable with teen numbers.
Addition
By May, your students are also ready to review addition in many different ways! Since kindergarteners are transitioning from concrete addition strategies to more abstract strategies, it’s helpful when morning work can include multiple opportunities for review.
For example, this activity includes addition problems for students to complete as part of a color-by-code activity. The same worksheet also lets students explore addition visually. They will color four blocks with different combinations of colors based on each addition equation. This helps students see the different ways that we can make a given number through addition.
Phonics
In addition to math review, morning work time can also provide valuable practice with literacy concepts. It’s helpful for students to review phonics patterns regularly so that they can continue to grow in confidence. In this morning work activity, students will identify the missing beginning blend for each word on the page. This is also good letter formation practice!
Sight Words
The morning work routine is also a great time for students to review sight words. In the activity pictured above, students will find and circle the sight word written in different fonts. Students can also practice writing sight words as they compose a sentence to match the picture at the bottom of the page.
Word Recognition and Word Building
By May, kindergarteners have come a long way with their word reading and word building skills! Morning work activities can provide fun opportunities for students to sharpen these skills before summer break.
In this activity, students will identify the words in the word bank and then match them to pictures. They will also be able to write the words on the corresponding lines for some additional handwriting practice.
Writing
Morning work printables can provide even more opportunities for students to practice their writing skills. On this worksheet, there is space for students to practice writing sight words by using the blank letter boxes as clues.
In addition, students can also practice composing sentences during morning work time. In this activity, students will choose a sight word and write a sentence to go with it. This gives them a chance to put together everything they’ve been learning all year!
Printable Kindergarten Morning Work for May (& More!)
All of the activities pictured in this post (and more!) are included in one easy-to-prep set of May Morning Work for Kindergarten. It includes a wide variety of literacy and math review activities that will help your students sharpen their skills before summer break arrives.
Just click below to take a closer look at everything included in this set of seasonal morning work for May.
May Morning Work for Kindergarten
If you’d like to get a head start on planning your morning work for next year, you should check out my full-year solution of low-prep Morning Work for Kindergarten. It includes seasonal literacy and math review that follows the typical skill progression of the kindergarten curriculum. You can use these printables to set up a consistent morning work routine that will last all year!
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