Greetings are some of the first words children learn to use on purpose, and they are a big part of how kindergarten runs: good morning at the classroom door, goodbye at pickup, hello to a new friend. Learning them asks for two things. Children need to read and say the words, and they need to know which one fits the moment, which for most of these greetings means knowing the time of day.
These fifteen sheets take those in order. Sheets 01 to 04 are about meeting the greetings and writing them: tracing hello, goodbye, hi and bye, and the four time-of-day greetings from good morning to good night. Sheets 05 to 13 put them to work, matching, sorting, circling, cutting and coloring, getting a little harder each time, from simple symbols to busy scenes and from two choices to four. Sheet 14 puts a whole day in order, and the last sheet hands the pencil over for children to draw their own.
Very little reading is needed to get started. Every greeting comes with a picture, and the clues are things young children already notice: the sun coming up, the moon in the window, a backpack, a bedtime story. By the later sheets, children are reading the greeting first and finding the picture to match.
Nine of the fifteen print in plain black and white, so most of the set is easy on ink for a class and can be colored in once the work is done.
Hello and Goodbye Greetings Worksheet for Kindergarten
Hello, goodbye, good morning and good night in big dotted letters, each next to a bright sticker-style picture of friends waving, a school bus, a sunny window and a teddy tucked into bed.
Talk Bubbles Tracing Greetings Worksheet for Kindergarten
Four comic panels with speech bubbles to trace: hi over the garden fence, bye on the way out of class, good morning to a puppy and good night as the light goes off.
Trace and Say Greetings Worksheet for Kindergarten
Trace hello, goodbye, good afternoon and good evening twice each beside a picture of each one, then color the pictures.
Greetings All Day Tracing Worksheet for Kindergarten
Breakfast, an afternoon in the sandbox, an evening walk with the dog and bedtime, each with its greeting to trace twice.
Greeting Match-Up Kindergarten Greetings Worksheet
Draw a line from four speech bubbles to a rooster at sunrise, a sleepy moon in a nightcap, a waving boy and a girl on a swing.
Sun or Moon Greetings Sorting Worksheet for Kindergarten
Six color scenes, from a bedtime story to a girl waiting for the school bus, and a circle to color yellow for good morning or blue for good night.
Sun and Moon Greetings Worksheet for Kindergarten
Match a breakfast, a soccer game, a sunset on the porch and a sleeping child to good morning, good afternoon, good evening and good night.
Color Greetings Matching Worksheet for Kindergarten
Draw a line from good evening, hello, good night and good morning to a walk to school, a sunset picnic, two friends in a hallway and a girl in bed.
What Does Sam Say? Greetings Worksheet for Kindergarten
Follow Sam from waking up to the playground, a goodbye wave and bedtime, and circle which of two greetings he would say each time.
Pick the Greeting: Greetings Worksheet for Kindergarten
Six picture cards, from stretching out of bed to waving from the school bus to a family dinner at sunset, each with two greetings to circle from.
Cut and Paste Greetings Worksheet for Kindergarten
Cut out good morning, hello, good afternoon and good night and glue each one under its picture: curtains opening, a friend at the door, a picnic and a goodnight kiss.
Color by Word Greetings Worksheet for Kindergarten
Twelve balloons, each saying hello, hi or bye, colored red, yellow or blue by the key at the top.
Find the Picture Greetings Worksheet for Kindergarten
Each row starts with a greeting and offers three color pictures. Children read the greeting, then circle the picture that goes with it.
Ben's Day Sequencing Greetings Worksheet for Kindergarten
Four cards from Ben's day, out of order and labeled with their greetings. Children number them 1 to 4 from morning to night.
Morning and Night Greetings Worksheet for Kindergarten
Draw a morning picture and a night picture, then trace I say good morning and I say good night, with a blank line to try each sentence again.
One more thing.
If your kids finish a unit and you're not sure what to do next, our honest advice: don't move on yet. Spend a week mixing these in as warm-ups. Fluency isn't a unit, it's a habit, and the sheet that builds it is usually the one they ask to do again.
