Sequence Activities for Kindergarten

Sequence the Story

• You can read a story to your kindergarten class. Choose a story with well-defined events. Illustrate those events on three-by-five cards. Display the cards in random order on your interactive whiteboard. Have the students place the cards in the proper order according to when each event happened in the story.

Sequence the Process

• Use cards that depict the various stages of growth for a person, dog, butterfly and frog. Use the human growth progression to demonstrate the process, moving from a baby to a grandmother in four to five steps. Have students come to the whiteboard and arrange the growth stages of a dog. Have another student arrange the growth stages of the frog and a third student arrange the butterfly. Discuss the stages if a student has difficulty with any of the growth stages. You might complete the lesson by reading "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" or watching the video.

Sequencing Letters

• Place letters randomly on the bulletin board. You may want to use only upper case or only lower case letters the first couple of times you sequence the letters. Have the students sing the ABC song and help you find the letters to put them in the right sequence. When your students have mastered the process using a single case, mix lower and upper case letters and have the students identify both and place them in the correct order.

Number Sequences

• Have students connect the dots in the right sequence to make the picture. You can practice ordering numbers skip-counting by twos, fives and tens or have students count in reverse order from 10 to one.

Geometric Sequencing

• Show four to five sizes of an object on your whiteboard. Have the students order the sequence from largest to smallest and smallest to largest. You might show three shapes and a repeating pattern. Ask the students to predict the next shape in the sequence. You can also show a line of a dozen repeating shapes with two or three shapes missing. Have the students determine which shapes are missing from the pattern.

Predict the Story

• Use illustrations from a story unfamiliar to the students, but logical in sequence. Ask the students to help you put the story together in the order they believe makes the most sense. Read the story to the class so they can see if they got the pictures in the right order.