UKG Worksheets, CBSE Pattern
UKG is the bridge year. Everything in it exists to make Class 1 survivable — sentence writing, numbers to 100, number names, shapes, patterns, telling the time, and sitting through a proper school day.
It's also the year the workload jumps. Most parents notice their child suddenly coming home with homework that assumes skills nobody explicitly taught — like knowing that "forty-seven" and "47" are the same thing, or being able to continue a pattern without being shown the rule.
These printable UKG worksheets cover the full range: English, maths, number names, shapes, patterns and EVS-adjacent topics. Written to CBSE-pattern preschool convention. Download, print, and print again as many times as you need.
What UKG covers
English
- Small letters a–z, written fluently
- Three and four letter words
- Beginning, middle and ending sounds
- Simple sentence formation — "The cat is big."
- Naming words, action words, describing words
- Opposites and rhyming words
Maths
- Numbers 1–100, writing and reading
- Number names — one, two, three… up to at least twenty
- Before, after, between up to 100
- Addition and subtraction to 20
- Shapes — 2D and introducing 3D
- Patterns — colour, shape, size and number sequences
- Measurement — longer/shorter, heavier/lighter
- Telling time — o'clock and half past
EVS / General awareness
- Body parts, family, food groups
- Animals and their homes
- Plants, seasons, festivals
- Good habits and safety
The two areas children most commonly need extra help with in UKG are number names (there's no logic to them, it's pure memorisation) and patterns (which require noticing a rule rather than repeating a fact — a genuinely different kind of thinking).
Where to start
For patterns, shapes and time — the three UKG topics that trip children up most — Time, Patterns & Shapes Workbook covers all three in one pack.
For English, Letters & Words covers word building and missing letters.
About "CBSE pattern" — what it does and doesn't mean
Being straight with you, because this phrase is used loosely by everyone selling preschool material:
CBSE has no prescribed syllabus for UKG. The board's formal curriculum starts at Class 1. What everyone calls "CBSE pattern UKG" is a widely-followed convention derived from NCERT's preschool curriculum and the Vidya Pravesh three-month school-readiness module that CBSE schools use at the start of Class 1.
That framework is genuinely useful — it tells you what Class 1 will assume your child already knows. Our UKG material is built against it. But nobody can sell you officially CBSE-certified UKG worksheets, and any seller claiming to is telling you something untrue.
What actually matters: does the difficulty match your child, and does it cover number names, patterns and sentence formation. Those are the three things Class 1 assumes.
Getting ready for Class 1
By the end of UKG, aim for your child to be able to:
- Write all letters, capital and small, without copying
- Read simple sentences aloud
- Write numbers 1–100
- Say and write number names to at least 20
- Continue a pattern and explain the rule
- Add and subtract within 20
- Tell time to the half hour
- Work independently for 20–25 minutes
- Hold scissors and cut on a line
The last two are the ones parents underweight. Class 1 teachers consistently report that the children who struggle aren't the ones behind on letters — they're the ones who can't work without an adult beside them.
How much practice
Twenty to thirty minutes a day, five days a week, is right for UKG. That's typically two worksheet pages.
Mix subjects within the week rather than doing a solid block of maths. Interleaving improves retention noticeably at this age, and it stops your child deciding they "don't like maths" because that's what Tuesday always is.
Check the product page's preview images to see the level before buying a full pack.
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Common questions
UKG (Upper Kindergarten) is usually 5 to 6 years in Indian schools, the year before Class 1. Some schools call it Senior KG or Prep 2.