Valentine's Day colors activities for esl

Valentine's Day is such a pretty Holiday!

I made this resource based on colors review.

LINKS: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Valentines-Day-Colors-4367721

        To introduce the Holiday, I made some puppets to greet each child.You can use them for almost anything in the class during this month. It is an art to be learned on how to get the most benefit from them.

Now, review colors. The same puppets can be colored. But I placed them into a fun foam crown that I made with a little pocket on the front.

Teacher: What color am I? Red?

Students: NO!! Green! You are green.

The Scrabble letters printed in pink and red can add up to review writing the color word for each heart.

I made these colored paper plates years ago and they work well for sorting.

and a little writing using the colored hearts.

I love making books for the Holidays! It is a cut and paste book with trace the sentence on each page.  

To assemble it I found this cute idea on Pinterest and gave it a try. I thought it would be difficult but it turned out quite easy.Glue a piece of ribbon on the top of each page.

Glue the paper bags one onto another and place the paper with the ribbon into each paper bag.

                          To read each page the student has to pull the ribbon.

I added the character’s from the book to make puppets to make read alongs or for storytelling.

A simple and easy matching game. Students just color each heart in a color and match the heart to the word.

               

  Or use the worksheet.

Or assemble the OLD LADY that swallowed… a Heart, this time. 

I used a cereal box.

                 

     I made a few coloring pages. Some are color by number.

 Others are read and color.

                           

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Valentine´s Day Resources and ideas for ESL-ELL teachers

Link to all the resources: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Valentines-Day-Flashcards-and-more-for-ESL-students-3596070

First of all I made flashcards. I know that you will find many ways to use them. I made the one flashcard per page version, another version that has two flashcards per page and one more that is 8 flashcards in a page. That is a lot to choose from.

Idea 1: Place all the flashcards on the board. Ask the students to sort them by food, things and people.

Then ask them to write an adjective next to each word.

Idea 2: A cheap idea for Bingo! Just place all the flashcards on the board. Tell the students to write five or more words from the board on their notebooks.  Have the words written on small pieces of paper and put them into a bag. Have a student be the helper and pull out a piece of paper with the word on it and read it to the class. Place a check mark next to each word read. If the student has the word written down he/she must cross it. The first student to cross out all the word calls BINGO!

I have seen lots of lap books but instead I created a game folder.

It has basically three resources that can be glued inside the folder. I used CD envelopes because of the transparent window. It has a board game, a Mini book and small flashcards.

I made some decorations for the folder.

The mini book is for the students to color as they read and then put it together as a book to take home and read to the parents. It has tracer sentences.

 I also made a teacher´s version of the mini book as a class reader.

 Students can look at the pictures for a clue as you read. Ask the students, which is the most common word in the reading, and what is most common color. Do echo reading, as you have students repeat after you and point out in their own mini books.

A cute board to play as many times as the students want. 

The game pieces are from the cute clip I bought. I had to include all of these animals. I used clip binders to make the pieces stand and they are easy to store.

This last resource can be used as worksheets, mini flashcards or create a mini dictionary. Students can play some games by themselves or in small groups. Here are ideas:

Game 1: The tower game. Students take a card out of the envelope and say the word and start building a tower by placing one on top of another. All the words that he can´t read have to be put aside. Students can play together by building a bigger tower with all their cards.

Game 2. Order the flashcards. Hand in a small of several flashcards and have the students order them accordingly.

Game 3. Guess the flashcard. Have several flashcards in your hand. Students should display all their flashcards on their desk. Start by describing a flashcard without showing it to the class.

Teacher: I can eat it. It is delicious. It can be brown or white. It comes in a box or in a package.

Students have to guess and turn around that card on their desks. Then, show the card to the class. Students see if they guessed or not.

From my other blog: Big and small hearts are included in the resource. Check the blog post:https://eflpreschoolteachers.blogspot.com/2018/02/valentines-hearts-big-or-small.html

                                          

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Valentine´s Day Ideas for Elementary ELL

I created this game for my girls so they could match contractions. Get them for free, for a short period of time, there are more Valentine´s printables, including cards. Link:  

https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Valentines-for-ELL-1693866

I have had this roll the dice game for years, I don´t know the author. Write me an email(ei98srl@gmail.com) and I can send the file. The file comes with the heart template that the students have to trace. Then, they play alone and start drawing as the dice directs  or play in pairs and see who is the first one to complete the Heart Person. 

 A nice book to make to review the structure  I love…..   www.graphicsfromthepond.com.au
          

And for Valentine´s Day vocabulary words, a trace activity:

The Teachers Pay Teachers Store has some great resources for free. Here are some of them. 

 Sight words are almost never included in any textbook.   These commonly used words should be  encouraged to memorize and automatically recognized. 

A fun crown for the structure I love….

  

A worksheet for teaching colors:

A cut and paste activity for verbs:

Never miss a Word Search.

Get more ideas  and free files for younger learners at my other blog: 

http://eflpreschoolteachers.blogspot.com/2015/02/valentines-day.html