Lunar New Year for Kindergarten | Lessons, Literacy & Math Centres

🧧 Lunar New Year Activities for Kindergarten | Lessons, Literacy & Math Centres

Are you looking for meaningful, hands-on Lunar New Year activities that go beyond crafts and keep your centres running smoothly?

This Kindergarten Lunar New Year unit includes structured lessons and engaging literacy + math centres designed to help your students build skills while learning about Lunar New Year traditions.

Perfect for a themed week, cultural learning, or integrating holiday-themed literacy and math into your centres.

 

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⭐ What’s Included:

 

📘 3 Structured Lesson Plans

Each lesson includes:

• Suggested read-alouds
• Before, during, and after prompts
• Anchor chart pieces
• Discussion and response activities

Focuses include:

✔ Non-fiction recall
✔ Story comprehension (Chinese Zodiac)
✔ Text-to-self connections

 

✏️ Literacy Centres & Activities

• Lunar New Year Word Chart + Chinese Zodiac Word Chart
• Traceable Mini Book (multiple versions for differentiation)
• Letter Formation Dabber Sheets (fine motor + phonics)
• CVC Missing Letter Cards (3 levels: consonants, vowels, full word)

Students practice:

✔ Vocabulary development
✔ Early writing + labeling
✔ Phonemic awareness
✔ Decodable word building

 

🔢 Math Centres & Activities

• Clip Cards (counting and number recognition)
• Roll & Trace Shapes (geometry + fine motor)
• Patterning Cards (AB, AAB, ABB, ABC patterns)
• Non-Standard Measurement (snap cube measuring + recording sheets)

Students build:

✔ Number sense
✔ Patterning skills
✔ Measurement understanding
✔ Shape recognition

 

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🧠 Why Teachers Love This Resource

✔ Hands-on + low prep
✔ Keeps centres running independently
✔ Integrates literacy and math naturally
✔ Engaging, meaningful cultural learning
✔ Easy to differentiate

 

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🎯 Perfect For:

• Whole group lessons
• Small group instruction
• Independent centres
• Literacy & math rotations
• Thematic units

 

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💡 Teacher Tip:

Use the lessons to introduce key concepts, then reinforce learning through the centres all week for a low-prep, high-impact Lunar New Year plan.

 

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🚀 Want Centres Like This All Year?

If you love these types of hands-on, low-prep centres, check out:

👉 Kindergarten Seasonal & Inclusive Holiday Centres Bundle

✔ Year-round themed centres
✔ Literacy, math & fine motor
✔ Designed for independent use

 

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💬 Questions?

Please reach out before purchasing if you have any questions — I’m happy to help!