Activities & Lessons

Kindergarten Daily Reading Activities: Teamwork

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Illustration of student and teaching building playground

Teamwork means working together to help each other. If you are apart of a team, you need to be able to share ideas and listen to one another. Below are five reading activities and lessons that explore the great things that can happen when we work together.
 

Day 1 activity

Let’s watch: The Playground

Watch the video The Playground to see how a community pitches in to build a new playground.

Discuss the video

What tools did Mae use to help build the playground? What is something you do with your neighbors?

Let’s read: Teamwork

It seems that anything Sam can do Ella can do better. But what happens when Ella’s kite gets stuck in a tree?

Download Teamwork


Take it further

Extend the fun with an activity.

Conclusions

  • What are three things that Ella and Sam do?
  • What does this tell you about them?

Family support

Use this learning guide to walk your child through the lesson. Explore additional review & extend activities together.


Day 2 activity

Let’s reread: Teamwork

It seems that anything Sam can do Ella can do better. But what happens when Ella’s kite gets stuck in a tree?

Download Teamwork

Take it further

Extend the fun with an activity.

Write about it

  • What can you and a friend do as a team?
  • Draw a picture of you and a friend working as a team.
  • Write sentences to explain your picture.

Family support

Use this learning guide to walk your child through the lesson. Explore additional review & extend activities together.


Day 3 activity

Let’s read: A City Garden
 

There’s a messy lot in the neighborhood. What happens when friends and neighbors get together to clean it up?

Download A City Garden
 

 

Take it further

Extend the fun with an activity.

Sequence of events

  • The story tells how to make a city garden. Tell the order in which things happen.
  • Use first, next, and last.

Family support

Use this learning guide to walk your child through the lesson. Explore additional review & extend activities together.


Day 4 activity

Let’s reread: A City Garden
 

There’s a messy lot in the neighborhood. What happens when friends and neighbors get together to clean it up?

Download A City Garden
 

 

Take it further

Extend the fun with an activity.

Talk about it

  • Draw a picture of a garden.
  • Tell directions about how to make that garden. Tell the order in which things would happen.
  • Tell who could help you make the garden.

Family support

Use this learning guide to walk your child through the lesson. Explore additional review & extend activities together.

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This blog, originally published in 2020, has been updated for 2025.

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