Farm Prepositions of Place Activities with a Rooster and Barn

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Students should review prepositions because they are essential for describing location. Using concrete visuals like a rooster and a barn makes abstract grammar more meaningful, while also reinforcing vocabulary and sentence structure.

Prepositions describe relationships in space, and flashcards make these abstract concepts concrete and easy to understand. have students build sentences. Give points to the students that create the longest sentence.

Students can see the same prepositions in different contexts, as in this Draw and Write Activity. Dictate what students have to draw and students follow instructions and then show the flashcard for correction.

Teacher: Draw a red barn. There is a rooster next to the barn.

Flashcards can be used for guessing activities. One student picks a flashcard secretly. Others ask yes/no questions: “Is the rooster in front of the barn?” until they guess correctly.

Place the barn flashcard on the table, open slots for next to, under and cut the door of the barn. Learners can describe where the rooster or follow a command.

Play (Command following) with the small cards. The teacher calls out instructions using cards and directions, for example “Bring me the card with the rooster behind the barn.” Students race to identify and grab the correct card. The first student to bring it back scores a point. Continue with different target cards each time.

Place the small cards in a line on the table. Students roll the dice that you have previously assembled and select the matching card, then give the answer. Continue rolling until all the cards have been answered.

Turn the barn into a 3D prop by gluing it onto a toilet paper roll. With a movable rooster cutout, students can physically place the animal in different positions. There is a colored and a b/w version.

Idea. Teacher Says – Similar to Simon Says, the teacher gives commands: “Put the rooster on the barn,” “Place the rooster on the barn,” etc. Students follow by moving their rooster cutout.

Idea. Student Leader – A student gives instructions to the class using prepositions while everyone positions their rooster.

Idea. Question & Answer Practice – One student puts the rooster in a position secretly. Others ask yes/no questions: “Is the rooster behind the barn?” until they guess correctly.

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Students can either listen to the teacher’s instructions (e.g., “Draw the rooster in front of the barn”) or roll a preposition dice to decide where to place or draw the rooster.

This worksheet can be done using the dice.

There are two fill-in-the-blanks worksheets where students complete simple sentences using prepositions. These worksheets reinforce both writing and grammar.

Two more worksheets: Sentence & Picture Matching Worksheet and a  Read, Draw & Color Worksheet

This resource also includes a matching mat where students pair preposition flashcards with the correct word and puzzle sentence, reinforcing word-picture connections.

Find a fun board game (shown above) where students move around the farm-themed path by rolling a die and making sentences with prepositions.

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Farm Unit – Present Continuous for Elementary ELLs

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This farm-themed resource reviews present-continuous. The variety of activities lets you adapt to your class. Grab the tips below.

Verbs in Action Flashcards Set with colorful pictures of farm animals doing a variety of actions (run, jump, eat, walk, sit, etc.). Have students speak by describing animal actions or answering questions.

Small cards are also present and ready to print. Play the question game. Students use a small card and ask question: Is the horse eating?

No, it isn’t.

Make an accordion with the small cards to make sentences, ask questions and more. 

Here is a video to check.

Write short sentences to describe the farm animal using any of small cards.

Fill-in-the-blank exercises in this farm worksheet.

Cut and paste the words in each sentence worksheet. Students glue them in correct order under the animal picture.

Reinforce this grammar point through simple games to help the learners grasp it more fully.  Print both quilts.  Cut any quilt into squares or use as a full board. Give students the sentence squares with the present continuous sentences.  Students match each sentence to the correct picture. For more practice: mix up the sentences and the pictures and play a memory/matching game.

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Farm Animals Printable Books

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By combining sentence tracing, vocabulary recognition, and matching, students build skills in a hands-on, meaningful way. Students practice possessive constructions like “The farmer’s tractor”, helping them understand how ownership works in English, by physically connecting the object to its owner with yarn.

Let students color the pictures after they trace the sentences. After the book is assembled, pair students up to read each other's books and check the yarn matches.

Take a look of the pages in the book.

Mommy & Baby Farm Animal Ring Book – Interactive & Versatile Learning

It comes with printable “Snapshot” templates and camera. This activity combines creativity, vocabulary development, and categorization. Students “capture” the farm animals and their babies, as they cut and paste the animal on the corresponding snapshot frame.

This book can be used in several ways:

📚 As a ring book for individual review and matching

 or 🧲 On a pocket chart for interactive class games

Foldable “What Do Farm Animals Give Us?” Mini-Books

The final printable book in this set focuses on an essential concept for young learners: what farm animals produce. Each foldable book spotlights a single farm animal and includes three key items that animal provides (like milk, eggs, or wool), reinforcing vocabulary and the real-world value of farm animals.

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“Fun on the Farm: Engaging ESL Learners with Hands-On Farm Games”

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Games are a powerful tool for language learning. That’s why I included several interactive farm-themed games in this resource!

Card Games encourage students to speak, listen, read, and think in English in an authentic way. Whether they’re identifying animals, matching vocabulary, or making sentences.

By spelling out farm animal names like horse, duck, sheep, and goat, students are reviewing the words they're learning in a new and tactile way. Draw an animal card, and students race to build the word using letter tiles.

With four starting points, students follow the path on the board game, landing on colored spaces and answering questions that match the color using the corresponding cards. Set up groups of 2–4 students and assign each group a board. Instruct a follow-Up Writing where students write 2–3 sentences about their favorite animal they landed on during the game.

Sorting helps students understand how things are grouped and connected, which is key for building comprehension and academic thinking.  This farm resource includes several sorting mats, such as:

Mommy and Baby Animals

Animal and the Product It Produces

Animal Sounds (Moo, Baa, Oink, etc.)

Farm Headband Game Cards.

Whether you use store-bought headbands or make simple paper ones, this activity is guaranteed to get your students engaged. Each card features a farm animal image, and students wear the card on their head without seeing it, while their classmates give clues.

Encourages Descriptive Language
Clue-givers use descriptions like:“It says moo.”“It gives us milk.”“It’s black and white.” 

This matching game helps students explore farm life by pairing each animal with what it eats. Students learn not just the animal names, but words like grass, hay, corn, worms, grain, insects, and carrots—expanding their word bank around the farm theme. Lay out all the animals and food cards. Students match them in pairs (cow → grass, pig → corn, chicken → worms).

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