What is in the Early Learning worksheets?

Seventy-three printable worksheets for Pre-K and Kindergarten, all of them early mathematics. Pre-K has one set, Count and Circle, with 17 sheets. Kindergarten has six sets across two clusters: adding with pictures and objects, addition facts and drills, one-digit subtraction from 20, counting small coins, measuring with a ruler, and patterns and early algebra.

Is there any reading or letter practice in Early Learning?

No. Everything on this shelf is number work. Letter sounds, blending, and early decoding are filed under Phonics, which is a far larger subject and is ordered properly. Phonics begins at Kindergarten, so there is no Pre-K reading shelf in the directory at all; for a four-year-old, read aloud together and use these pages for the number side of the day.

How many of these worksheets are free?

The first three worksheets in every skill set are open to everyone. That is three of the 17 Pre-K sheets and eighteen of the 56 Kindergarten sheets, twenty-one in all. They are complete pages rather than sample crops, and they use the same layout as the rest of their set, so you can see exactly how a set is built.

My child is four. Where should we start?

Start with Pre-K's Count and Circle and stay there until counting a group and choosing the right numeral is easy and quick. Age is not the gate; accuracy is. When a child can do it without recounting, Kindergarten's adding-with-pictures sheets are the next honest step, because they ask the same counting skill of two groups at once.

Early Learning Worksheets

Early Learning is the number-readiness shelf of the practice library: 73 printable worksheets, 17 for Pre-K and 56 for Kindergarten. They cover counting, adding and subtracting small amounts, patterns, measuring with a ruler, and coins. No reading or letter work is filed here.

Practice pages support a program; they are not the lesson. These sheets reinforce Building Number Sense Kindergarten, the first year of the sequenced K–5 math series from Faith Thinkers. See every program →

Skills include: Early Math Readiness · Shapes, Patterns, Measurement & Data

Pre-K 17 worksheets Kindergarten 56 worksheets

What does Early Learning practice cover here?

The name is broader than the shelf, so it is worth being plain about it. Everything filed under Early Learning is early mathematics: counting, quantity, simple addition and subtraction, patterns, measurement, and money. It is a small collection by design, one skill set at Pre-K and six at Kindergarten. Letter sounds and blending are not part of it; the Phonics subject carries that work, and it begins at Kindergarten.

Every sheet in this subject carries one format label: Practice. There are no separate modeling or fluency pages here, so each worksheet is a page a child works beside you or independently, never a scripted lesson. The first three worksheets in every set are open to everyone: three in Pre-K's single set, eighteen across Kindergarten's six, twenty-one in all.

This is practice, not a program. The sequence a child is actually taught, with the modeling and the language and the order, comes from Building Number Sense, the sequenced K-5 math curriculum these sheets sit beside. Use the worksheets after a concept has been introduced, to see whether it held, or to give a child another day on something that did not.

One practical note about scale. Early Learning is the only shelf in the practice library with a Pre-K grade at all, which is why Pre-K holds seventeen pages and Kindergarten holds fifty-six. Once a child is working comfortably in Kindergarten, the Math subject's own Kindergarten shelf is far larger and takes over from this one.

How the two grades build on each other

Pre-K — Seventeen sheets in one cluster, Early Math Readiness, holding one set: Count and Circle. It needs only that a child can say the counting words in order and point to objects one at a time.
Kindergarten — Fifty-six sheets across two clusters and six sets, from adding with pictures and objects through one-digit subtraction from 20, patterns, measuring with a ruler, and counting small coins. It assumes counting and numeral recognition are already steady.

Common questions

What is in the Early Learning worksheets?: Seventy-three printable worksheets for Pre-K and Kindergarten, all of them early mathematics. Pre-K has one set, Count and Circle, with 17 sheets. Kindergarten has six sets across two clusters: adding with pictures and objects, addition facts and drills, one-digit subtraction from 20, counting small coins, measuring with a ruler, and patterns and early algebra.
Is there any reading or letter practice in Early Learning?: No. Everything on this shelf is number work. Letter sounds, blending, and early decoding are filed under Phonics, which is a far larger subject and is ordered properly. Phonics begins at Kindergarten, so there is no Pre-K reading shelf in the directory at all; for a four-year-old, read aloud together and use these pages for the number side of the day.
How many of these worksheets are free?: The first three worksheets in every skill set are open to everyone. That is three of the 17 Pre-K sheets and eighteen of the 56 Kindergarten sheets, twenty-one in all. They are complete pages rather than sample crops, and they use the same layout as the rest of their set, so you can see exactly how a set is built.
My child is four. Where should we start?: Start with Pre-K's Count and Circle and stay there until counting a group and choosing the right numeral is easy and quick. Age is not the gate; accuracy is. When a child can do it without recounting, Kindergarten's adding-with-pictures sheets are the next honest step, because they ask the same counting skill of two groups at once.