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Kindergarten sub plans: math

A kindergarten math block for a substitute, 60 minutes: a warm-up on the board, then addition within 10 practice (a sheet with its answer key on its own page), partners checking each other, and early finishers writing problems of their own. 4 steps, written to be read once and followed.

Checked October 30, 2026. Made from Peabody Teach's own passages, worksheets and brain break cards.

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The math block

Math: addition within 10

  1. Warm-up: count together by ones to 20, then by tens to 100.
  2. Hand out the addition within 10 sheet (16 problems). Print 24; the key is on its own page.
  3. Students work on their own for twenty minutes, then check with a partner.
  4. Early finishers write three problems of their own and swap with a neighbor.

📄 Addition within 10 (sheet and key)

The sheets, on their own pages

Subbing kindergarten

Kindergarten runs on routines more than lessons: the bathroom, snack, lining up, the carpet. Blocks are short, and the class knows how its day goes better than you do. Read to them rather than expecting them to read alone, and let them show you the routines.

  • Keep each part short: fifteen to twenty minutes of one thing, then change.
  • Ask the class to show you how they line up and how they ask for the bathroom, instead of teaching your own way.
  • Count heads at every door: out to recess, back in, to lunch and back.

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