Christmas and Colors Unit for Elementary English Language Learners

 This resource is included in the Colors Unit for Elementary ELL. Find it in this link here:          https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Colors-Unit-for-Elementary-ELL-Starters-3629423

Use this resource to engage Students with Thematic Learning. It integrates visual (flashcards, puzzles, board games), auditory (read-and-color, listening activities), and kinesthetic (board games, coloring) elements to cater to diverse learning styles.

Give each student a gift flashcard. Name a sequence of four colors. The students with those flashcards stand in the same sequence: orange, pink, blue, black.

Repeat with more sequences.

Let’s do Role-Play: Set up a pretend market on the board. Students "buy" and "sell" gifts by asking for specific colors: I want the blue gift, please.

Have students match their crayons to the larger flashcards.

The set of small cards are useful for more activities:

Hide the gift flashcards around the room. Call out a gift color, and students search for the matching gift. You can hide the small card on the board, on a book or behind the door!

Teacher: Where is the red gift?

Students: on the book!

By the way, that’s a book that I made the originals in 2010!

Each student picks up a card and says their favorite color: My favorite color is green!

The small cards work for writing prompts.

The gift worksheets will encourage students to work at their own pace, reinforcing self-confidence.

Unscrambling letters helps students practice spelling and letter recognition. Then, they can color each gift.

Print the bingo gift worksheet. Students will color the gifts in any color they wish. Use the small cars to call out Bingo and students mark or cover the corresponding gifts on their cards. Save the bingo sheet to play at any other time since it is ready.

Fun way to practice listening and matching.

Puzzles capture students' attention and encourage active participation. Plan a Puzzle Race. Divide students into teams. Provide each team with a puzzle set. The first team to complete their puzzle wins.

Lay the puzzle pieces out. Call out a color, and students must find the phrase and complete the pocket chart.

Game board! Students say the colors as they land on them, improving pronunciation and confidence. As students land on a present, they must say the color out loud. For an extra challenge, they can make a sentence (e.g., “The present is red”).

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Christmas Coloring Worksheets as a listening, speaking or writing activity

 It's Christmas and when we think of coloring pages we think of the little ones. I do have FREE worksheets  for the students. For the older students, it can be a writing practice as they color and write a short text for their page. 

Here is the LINK to the FREE resource:

 https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Christmas-Coloring-for-Kindergarten-EFL-3527578

For our English Language Learners of all ages can benefit of a listening activity as they color the worksheets.
Teacher: Find the bear! Color it brown.
Find the Christmas tree! Color it green.

Or do a show and tell. Students come up to the front and describe their worksheet: This is a bear. It has a Christmas hat. It is red.

This is what I did! I wrote the word for each item on the coloring page using a wax crayon.

Then, using markers I started coloring the pictures and the word would show up. Here is my example.

So, it is just a Spelling activity for the Season. If you do yours, please show me!         

                   

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Christmas Activities for ESL

Krasner (1999) recognized the necessity for language learners to develop not only linguistic competence but also an awareness of the culturally-appropriate features of the language

Link to the files at my TeachersPayTeachers store:

https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Christmas-Unit-for-Elementary-ELL-2235598

 

I made a Coloring and a Writing book. Students read the incomplete sentence and looking at the picture write the missing word. Students can color the picture as you dictate.

Teacher: Look at the elf! His hat is yellow and green.

A foldable accordion book. Students trace each word to create the book. You can choose the vocabulary. Then trace the Elf hat onto red or green cardboard to assemble the book. 

Half card game. This a fun game that many students love. Cut all the cards in half. Have the students match each half to make a complete card on their desks as a group challenge.

As a speaking activity, hand in a half card to each student. They all stand up at your signal and walk around the classroom finding their other half and stand together. Shout stop! At any given moment. The winners are the students that got together correctly.

Labeling clothes and body (labeling). Have the students label the Christmas Characters cards. They come in color and black/white version.

More vocabulary practice with the picture and word matching cards.

A final review of Prepositions or Positional words.A set of small flashcards to review each preposition.

Teacher: Look at the reindeer! The reindeer is between the boy and the girl.Or the reindeer is between the elves.

A  Prepositions or Positional words game.The sentence association game which is fun.

There is a set of cutouts to glue onto a file folder.

Students can sort the cards.

A  Prepositions or Positional words book.Print and assemble the book or use the file on the tablets.

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Christmas Flashcards

I know that ESL Teachers love flashcards. There are 57 Christmas  flashcards. Here´s the link:  

https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Christmas-Flashcards-for-Elementary-ESLEFLELL-3536682

Flashcards activity 1. Place selected flashcards on the board and hand in the scrabble letters to the students and have them make crosswords with the letters on their tables.

Flashcards activity 2. Have the students write each word under the  flashcard using the scrabble letters.

Flashcards activity 3. Place the flashcards around the room. Have the students find them as you ask questions.

                                 Teacher: Where is the gift?

                             Students: Here ! It is on the chair.

Flashcard activity 4. Make a grid on the board with random flashcards. Ask questions.
Teacher: Find B3. Who is B3?
Students: He is Rudolf.

Then ask students to make sentences that relate to make a short  Christmas Story. Write an example and have it ready to read to the class.

Teacher: Joseph and Mary are in the stable. The Angel is at the stable, too. She is drinking cocoa. The reindeer likes cocoa. The Shepherd came to see Baby Jesus, but Rudolf was at the stable. The Elf Girl came with the Gingerbread and The Gingerbread House. Poinsettias were in the sack with many presents.

Well, I invented this story. You can use it, but I am not that good at writing, LOL!!

Flashcard activity 4. Have the students order the flashcards alphabetically on the board.

Flashcard activity 5. Place the stable flashcard in the middle of the board. Ask students who and what  belongs to the stable. Make a mind map. Place the corresponding flashards as the students mention them.

Teacher: Look at the stable ! Who belongs to the stable ?

Students: Joseph! Mary! Baby Jesus! Shepherd !sheep! Angel! star!

Flashcard activity 6. Place pairs of flashcards and ask questions with WHERE?
Teacher: Where is the gingerbread man?
Students: He is in the gingerbread house!
Teacher: Where is Mary?
Students: She is in the stable!

Flashcard activity 6. Labeling! Label the parts of the body using a white board marker and a plastic sheet.

Flashcards are great for speaking, listening and a writing activity can be included. But I made a Picture Dictionary for Reading and Vocabulary Practice. It has 5 pages and it can be done in groups and then bind it.

    Have the students cut all the picture cards. I had the book binded before.

                               This is how my example turned out.

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