We love these kindergarten anchor charts for covering topics like friendship, shapes, counting, letters and beginning writing. What are your favorite kindergarten anchor charts to use in the classroom?
1. What Is a Friend?
Kindergartners are just learning their place in the social scene. Display the qualities of a good friend with this chart based on the book The Little White Owl by Tracey Corderoy. Read the book together, and talk about how they can be a friend to their classmates.
Source: First Grade Blue Skies
2. Parts of a Book
Reading books is a daily activity in kindergarten, but do they know where to find each part of the book? This anchor chart shows them all the different parts, using Pete the Cat as the example:
Source: A Place Called Kindergarten
3. 2- and 3-Dimensions
Teaching 2-D and 3-D shapes is so fun for kids. Teach them to see examples in actual objects, then make this anchor chart so they can remember.
Source: Growing Kinders
4. Coloring 101
Sometimes kindergartners just want to hurry through a coloring project to move on to the next thing. Encourage them to take their time and color a pretty picture instead of a rushed one.
Source: Crazy Life in Kinders
5. Letters, Words and Sentences
Beginning writers need to identify first the letter, then the word, then putting the words together to form a sentence. Kids will love adding their letters and words to the chart.
Source: Kindergarten Chaos
6. Beginning to Write
The first step in finding out how to spell and write is sounding out the word and finding the right letters. This is another fun one to do together to allows kids to see how words are formed.
Source: Teaching With Style
7. Fiction or Nonfiction
Show kids the parts of a nonfiction book that might be different from a fiction book with this handy chart.
Source: Mrs. Wills Kindergarten
8. Tally-Mark Poem
This is a fun little poem that reminds kids how to make tally marks.
From: Teky Teach
9. Counting Strategies
Kindergartners love to count as high as they can. This anchor chart lists and visualizes the different ways they can count.
Source: Mrs. Wills’ Kindergarten
10. Number Recognition
When you’re working on a new number together, this will help students really see how the number looks in various ways.
Source: Kindergarten Chaos
11. Money Chart
Help kids remember the difference between coins with this handy chart. (It was created for first grade but works great for kindergarten too.) Also click on the link for some rhymes that make it easy to remember the value of each coin.
Source: A Day in First Grade
12. Restroom Rules
Some of the most important skills kindergartners learn are life skills such as taking care of bathroom needs. Often the restroom is mistaken for a play place. This great chart is a reminder of how to behave in the bathroom.
Source: Unknown
13. What Begins With …?
Introducing a new letter sound is fun when you get the kids involved in brainstorming words that begin with that letter.
Source: A Cupcake for the Teacher
14. Less and More
Anything with an alligator is usually good with kinders. This fun anchor chart shows how to use signs for less-than or more-than numbers.
Source: Krafty in K
15. Measuring Height
This is not standard anchor chart size, but your students will love it. When introducing height and measurement, ask kids to come up to this chart and measure their height using yarn.
Source: Going Back to Kinder
16. Morning Duties
From the start of the day, kids do much better when they know what they are expected to do. This chart shows exactly what this teacher wants each kid to do when they come into the classroom.
Source: Mrs. Wills
17. Sight-Word Sing-Along
This is a fun idea for teaching teach sight words. Change up the word as needed and it can help students remember how to recognize and spell the word.
Source: Unknown
18. When Is It OK to Interrupt?
We love these friendly reminders on when it is okay to interrupt. This can be such a tough topic for kids to grasp. Have them get involved in coming up with reasons.
Source: Mrs. Beattie’s Classroom
19. Writing Topics
Sometimes kiddos have a hard time picking a topic to write or draw. This anchor chart is a brainstorm session on what kids come up with to write about.
Source: Deanna Jump
20. Punctuation
This is a great chart to create and leave up for remembering how to use punctuation.
Source: Kindergarten Chaos
21. Hot and Cold Science Lesson
This idea is a fun one when introducing a weather unit or talking about the seasons.
Source: Mrs. Richardson’s Class
22. Ways to Sort
All kindergarten classrooms practice sorting, and this anchor chart is a great visual of different ways to sort and organize.
Source: Kindergarten Chaos
23. Encourage More Reading
This anchor chart is simple, but it’s a great way to encourage your students to do more reading.
Source: Mrs. Jones’s Kindergarten
24. Drawing People
Kindergartens will work on their people-drawing skills all year, so this anchor chart is a good reminder of the basics.
Source: Kindergarten, Kindergarten
25. Classroom Constitution
Every classroom should come up with a list of Classroom Rules or a “Constitution” like this one, in which every student must “sign” with their handprint. These are a few examples that would be perfect for a kindergarten room.
Source: Teach with Me
