Print out a number of cards that depict a story or activity. For example, print out cards that depict the steps in baking cookies (mixing batter, rolling it with a pin, stamping with a cookie cutter, putting it in the oven and serving it) or the main events in a short children's story. Then read the story or describe the activity to the kindergartners. Have them arrange the cards in the order they occurred in the story. Ask helpful questions to aid the children in figuring out the correct sequence. For example, if a child says, "First, you roll the batter," ask "What do you do before that?" or "How do you get the batter in the first place?" Go through the story once more together once the kindergartners get the sequence right.
Allow the kids to play with creating their own stories using the sequence cards. Mount the sequence cards from several stories or activities on color-coded cards to make them easy to sort out later, then combine them into a big pile. Have the kindergartners pick out three to five cards each and arrange the cards to tell a story. Then, give each child the chance to tell her story to the class.
Pick a story that you and the students both know such as "The Three Little Pigs." Tell the story out of order. Ask the students what was wrong with the story, and have them correct the order. Then, use new stories the students don't know. For example, you could say "Sarah cried. Sarah was skipping down the road. Sarah's mom gave her a hug and made her feel better. Sarah fell and skinned her knee." Have the students rearrange the events into the proper sequence.
Putting on a play helps kids to practice observing details and organizing them in the correct sequence in a fun and social way. Together, make a list of the main details in a story. Then, divide the students into groups. Have each student make a hand puppet of one of the principle characters in the story. Then, have each group perform its own versions of the story.