One page, four tasks, a step up from the preschool sheet. Write the starting letter under four pictures, count the pictures in two crowded boxes and write how many, carry on two picture patterns by drawing the last two, then trace a festive word and write it yourself on the line below.
What the four tasks cover
The first row is letter sounds: four drawings with a writing line under each, where a child says the word and writes the letter it starts with. The second is counting beyond the small numbers, with two framed boxes holding a dozen or so of the same picture and an answer box in the corner of each.
The third is pattern continuation, two rows of alternating pictures ending in two empty dashed boxes to be drawn in. The fourth is a handwriting band: a picture, the word printed twice in hollow dotted letters on a top line, dashed midline and baseline, and a blank ruled line underneath to write it unaided.
Why these four together
They are four different kinds of work rather than four helpings of one. A child writes a letter, counts, spots a rule and repeats it, then forms letters on a guideline. One page covers phonics, number and fine motor control without any of them running long enough to lose a five year old.
The counting boxes are deliberately crowded. Counting a dozen or more scattered pictures without touching them is a harder skill than counting five in a row, and it is the point at which children start organising a count rather than pointing at random.
Marking it
The second page repeats the sheet with the starting letters, the two counts and the pattern squares filled in and marked in red. Switch Answer sheet to Sheet only when you are printing for a group.
Letters are shown as capitals on the answer sheet. A child writing lower case has not got it wrong, so mark the sound rather than the letter form.
Questions
- What does the kindergarten Christmas worksheet include?
- Four tasks on one page: writing the starting letter under four pictures, counting the pictures in two boxes, carrying on two patterns by drawing the last two, and tracing then writing a Christmas word on handwriting guidelines.
- How high do the counting boxes go?
- Into the teens. The boxes hold more than ten pictures scattered rather than lined up, which is the point where a child has to keep track of what they have already counted instead of pointing along a row.
- Is there an answer sheet with it?
- Yes. A second page shows the starting letters, the two counts and the completed patterns marked in red. The control above the paper prints the worksheet on its own instead.
- How is this different from the preschool sheet?
- The preschool page asks a child to circle and trace. This one asks them to write letters, count past ten and work out a pattern rule, so it needs a pencil grip and some letter formation already in place.