Opposites Matching

Kindergarten ELAVocabulary5 pages

About this worksheet

Finding Opposites has eight pairs for kindergarten students to match and one to draw. The first set pairs describing words (hot, big, open, happy), and the second mixes in words for direction, speed, and time (up, fast, asleep, day). Every word sits with a picture, like a steaming bowl of soup for hot and an ice cream cone for cold. The page ends with a clean pig, and students draw its dirty opposite. It practices Common Core L.K.5.b. The answer key lists all eight pairs and describes the pig drawing.

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Curriculum objectives covered

L.K.5.b

โ€œDemonstrate understanding of frequently occurring verbs and adjectives by relating them to their opposites (antonyms).โ€

All eight matches and the pig drawing, from hot and cold to asleep and awake.

What's inside this worksheet

Set 1

Hot, big, open, and happy on the left join to little, closed, sad, and cold on the right.

Set 2

Up, fast, asleep, and day match to slow, awake, night, and down. A turtle stands for slow and a cheetah for fast.

Draw the Opposite

A clean pink pig sits on the grass. Students draw a dirty pig in the box labeled Dirty.

How teachers use it

Body opposites

Call out a Set 2 word, like up, and students show its opposite with their bodies. It is a quick warm-up before they draw lines.

Little, not small

Big pairs with little on this sheet, not small. Read the right-hand column aloud first so students know which words to look for.

Home link

Send the Draw the Opposite page home with one new pair to try, such as wet and dry.

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