Preschool Lesson Plans
20 ready-to-teach plans for preschool, each with a timed sequence and the printable pages that go with it. Free to read and print.
Preschool is about exposure, not mastery. Sessions are short, adult-led and hands-on, and success looks like joining in rather than finishing a page. Everything here suits ages 3 to 5.
These plans use worksheets from our Preschool & Kindergarten collection, filtered to the topics that suit ages 3 to 5: letters, counting, shapes, colors, patterns and early writing. If your child is already adding and subtracting, the kindergarten lesson plans go further.
Preschool math is counting things you can hold. Children match a number word to a quantity, notice shapes in the room, and sort by colour and size. Nothing is written independently yet.
Numbers6 practice pages
Counting6 practice pages
Learning numbers6 practice pages
Shapes6 practice pages
Counting numbers6 practice pages
Measurement6 practice pages
Number patterns6 practice pages
Counting objects6 practice pages
More or less6 practice pages
Colors6 practice pages
Sorting4 practice pages
Position5 practice pages
Reading
Preschool reading is oral. Children hear rhyme, notice that print carries meaning, recognise their own name, and learn letter shapes as pictures long before they sound them out.
Grammar
Preschool writing is fine-motor work: holding a pencil, tracing shapes and letters, and learning that marks on a page mean something.
Science
Science at this level is observation before explanation. Each plan opens with something to notice and only names the vocabulary once students have seen the thing it describes.
What is in every preschool lesson plan
- A real objective
- Written as what students will be able to do, tied to the standard the practice pages are built against.
- A timed sequence
- Warm-up, modeling, guided practice, independent work and a close, with minutes on each step so it fits a real block.
- A check for understanding
- One concrete way to find out who has it and who needs it retaught, before you move on.
- Matching practice pages
- Two to six printables chosen to match the independent-practice step, not a random grab from the library.