10-Day Hispanic Heritage Month Lesson Plan for Pre-K & Kindergarten | Literacy, Crafts, Music, SEL, Culture Outline for Teachers, Homeschool

🌎 Hispanic Heritage Month Activities Outline – Pre-K & Kindergarten 🌎

Hispanic Heritage Month starts in September!!!

Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month with your students using this flexible, age-appropriate activity outline designed for Pre-K and Kindergarten. This resource is filled with hands-on, culturally respectful activities that mix literacy, art, music, movement, and social-emotional learning.

Instead of a scripted lesson plan, this teacher-friendly outline gives you the freedom to pick and choose activities to fit your classroom schedule. Perfect for teachers, homeschool families, and early learning centers.

✨ What’s Included:
🌎 Storytime & Literacy Activities – Read-aloud book suggestions, flag matching game.
🎨 Art & Craft Activities – Papel picado, maracas, Frida-inspired self-portraits, cultural collage.
🎵 Music & Movement – Latin dance with scarves, clap & count rhythms in Spanish.
🍴 Food & Culture – Food tasting ideas
🏫 Social-Emotional & Community Connections – Family connection project, Hispanic Heroes spotlight, kindness quilt activity.

📚 Why Teachers Love This Resource:
✔ Flexible outline — works for a week-long celebration or a month-long thematic unit
✔ Easy to adapt for centers, small groups, or whole class
✔ Encourages cultural awareness, identity, and community building
✔ Hands-on, play-based, and developmentally appropriate for Pre-K & Kindergarten
✔ Perfect for classrooms, homeschools, or bilingual programs

📌 How to Use:
Choose 1–2 activities each day for a week-long plan, or spread them out over 2–4 weeks.
Pair activities with featured read-alouds and music for deeper connections.
Invite families to join in for authentic community-building.
Celebrate diversity, build community, and make Hispanic Heritage Month meaningful for your little learners with this engaging teacher resource outline!

This Hispanic Heritage Month Activities Outline is designed for Pre-K and Kindergarten, and naturally aligns with Common Core State Standards (CCSS) in ELA (Reading, Speaking/Listening, Writing) and can connect with Math practices and SEL/social studies goals. Here’s a breakdown:
📖 Storytime & Literacy Activities
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.K.1 – With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.K.3 – With prompting and support, identify characters, settings, and major events in a story.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.K.7 – With prompting and support, describe the relationship between illustrations and the text.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.K.5 – Explore word relationships and nuances in word meanings (learning Spanish words).
🎨 Art & Craft Activities
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.K.5 – Add drawings or other visual displays to descriptions as desired to provide additional detail.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.K.2 – Use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to compose informative/explanatory texts.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.K.3 – Use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to narrate a single event or events.
🎵 Music & Movement Activities
CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.K.CC.A.1 – Count to 100 by ones and by tens (practice counting in Spanish).
CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.K.CC.B.4 – Understand the relationship between numbers and quantities; connect counting to cardinality (clap & count).
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.K.1 – Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners.
🍴 Food & Culture Exploration
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.K.4 – Describe familiar people, places, things, and events with prompting and support.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.K.8 – Recall information from experiences or gather information from provided sources to answer a question (recipe book).
🏫 Social-Emotional & Community Connections
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.K.1.A – Follow agreed-upon rules for discussions (listening, taking turns).
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.K.6 – Speak audibly and express thoughts, feelings, and ideas clearly.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.K.7 – Participate in shared research and writing projects (kindness quilt, hero spotlight).

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