Easy Prep March Activities for Kindergarten

When March arrives, you can breathe a sigh of relief (and fresh air) that you've made it to spring! However, let's face it, March can also be a bustling month. There's Spring Break, conferences, and quarterly assessments to name a few items on your to-do list. However, with a few easy prep activities for March up your sleeve, you'll be prepared all month long!

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Whether you have 5-10 minutes before the next transition, your schedule changes, or you have a few minutes at the end of the day, it's always nice to have a back-up plan of activities that you can pull out at anytime.

Even though a few minutes may not sound like much, if you're a kindergarten teacher, you know how long those few minutes can be if you aren't prepared.

Plus, it's always nice to have a few easy- or no-prep activities that you can use if you need to fill some time, head out to an unexpected meeting or appointment, or need to wrap up working with a student.

Read on for some of my favorite easy prep activities that are perfect for the month of March.

March Read Alouds

This may be the easiest activity, but also one of the most impactful. Read alouds are pure gold for filling time and calming students. Kids love to be read to and it's so important that they are!

Whenever a new month or season rolls around, it's always fun to switch out the books and get your students excited for a new batch of read alouds!

Here are some of my favorite read alouds for March:

• Mama Built a Little Nest
• The Great Garden Escape
• Bear Wants More
• When Spring Comes
• Spring is Here: A Bear and Mole Story
• Lola Plants a Garden
• A Perfect Day for Digging

Easy Prep March Writing Activities

With a new season comes a ton of new topics to write about in kindergarten. March is a great month to discuss and write about farm animals, spring, St. Patrick's Day, rainbows, and more.

You can find writing prompts for all of these topics and more in the March Writing Prompts resource, made just for kindergarten!

These print-and-go writing prompts are easy to add to your writing lessons or journal time.

Plus, they are the perfect way to show growth in your students' writing skills when it comes time for parent-teacher conferences or quarterly report cards.

DIY Leprechaun Writing Activity

If you need a quick and easy DIY writing activity for the month of March, you can try out this leprechaun writing activity.

Have students think about what would happen if a leprechaun came to school. Encourage students to turn and talk to a neighbor and brainstorm all of the different things that could happen.

As a class, make a list on the whiteboard of what the leprechaun could do or what could happen.

Write the prompt “If a leprechaun came to school ________” on the whiteboard. Have students pick their favorite scenario and complete the sentence starter and illustrate it on lined writing paper.

No Prep Activities for March

For those days when you need a no prep activity to add to your morning work, math or literacy centers, or anytime of day, stay prepared with these March literacy and math worksheets!

These come in handy when you are working individually with a student or giving assessments.

They are also great for those busy weeks leading up to Spring Break or parent-teacher conferences.

They're easy to prep, fun for students to complete, and give students a ton of opportunities to practice key math and literacy skills. It's a triple win!

DIY Mini Eraser Activities

Sometimes, all it takes to turn an easy prep activity into a total classroom hit is to add some fun manipulatives!

Using spring-themed mini erasers is a great way to make basic activities fun for your students.

Gather your favorite mini erasers and try out these simple activities for March.

• Build words using mini erasers. (CVC, CVCe, sight words, color words, number words, etc.)
• Practice beginning blends and digraphs by using mini erasers to build them.
• Model number sentences with mini erasers and solve for the answer.
• Compare numbers by modeling with sets of mini erasers.

You can grab a FREE Juggling Jelly Beans comparing numbers game by clicking here. This freebie uses two of my favorite manipulatives: bingo dabbers and mini erasers!

March Learning Crafts

If you're looking for a fresh way to help your students learn this March, consider adding this low-prep March learning crafts to your lesson plans!

The spring learning crafts resource includes 12 crafts – 4 phonics crafts, 4 math crafts, and 4 writing crafts that were created with small hands in mind – think big pieces and easy to assemble (yay!).

The March Crafts resource covers skills like:

• Comparing numbers within 10
• Teen numbers
• Addition and subtraction within 10 (both options included)
• Real world shapes (2D and 3D options included)
• Substituting ending sounds
• CVC words
• Beginning and ending digraphs and
• Beginning L blends

and are a great way to help your students review the key concepts you've been teaching in a fun way!

March Math and Literacy Centers

If you're tired of finding and planning center activities, these easy-prep March math and literacy centers were made with you in mind!

It includes 26 centers – 13 math centers and 13 literacy centers that provide practice with math skills like teen numbers, addition, subtraction, numbers to 100, and literacy skills like CVCe words, real and nonsense words, ending digraphs, rhyming, and more!

It's time to cross March center activities off of your list with these planned-for-you centers!

Teen Number Match Freebie

This teen number rainbow match freebie is perfect for St. Patrick's Day, spring, or anytime! It gives your students hands-on practice with teen number recognition, counting, and representing numbers with ten-frames and base ten. Grab your copy below!

I hope you've enjoyed these easy prep activities for March! I wish you all the lesson planning and prepping simplicity this month!

If you're looking for activities for St. Patrick's Day, be sure to check out this blog post!