Seasons and Nature

This is the fourth part of the Seasons Resources. LINK:https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Seasons-Theme-Resources-for-Elementary-ESL-1744981

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 Start with the trees flashcards.

Place each Season Flashcard on the board and have the students name them. Then, have the students sort the trees into each season. Have them notice how they change with each season.

Teacher: What season is this ?

Students: It’s Winter!

Teacher: look at the tree. What happened with the leaves?

Students: There are no leaves!

And again the worksheet to sort the trees.

Cut the trees from the worksheet and make a small craft. I cut the toilet paper tubes into smaller rolls. Then, cut two slits on each one and place the tree. Ask questions:

Teacher: What season is this ?

Students: It's Winter.

Teacher: Dos the tree have leaves ?

Students: No, it doesn't.

Introduce the Nature vocabulary using the flashcards.

Then, have the students sort them into each Season.

Teacher: What is this ?

Students: It’s a polar bear.

Teacher: What season do you see a polar bear ?

Students: In the Winter!

And another worksheet to sort the nature vocabulary.

Roll ,read and write (Spelling game). I saw this game on the mailbox.com. I gave it a twist. Distribute a die and the templates to each group. Hand in the nature cards template and the die template. Explain that each number represented on the die stands for the number of letters in a word. In each group, the students take turns to roll the die and choose a card from the template that has the corresponding number of letters that is on the die rolled. The student has to make a check mark on that word. The student reads the card to the group and they have to write the word under the corresponding column. Each word can be written only once.

Watch the videos on how to play.

This is an old game that I used to play 20 years ago. Yes, a very old game!! The aim is to review prepositions. I prepared a set of instructions for each team and some cutouts.

Make 2 groups.  When you say, "Go!" the students must read the slips of paper

and get the necessary cutouts to complete the task.

The first group who puts the proper number of things in the correct location wins.

Here are the four trees that the four groups should end up with. I made a blank template for you to write the instructions or even better, the students can write the instructions for themselves or for another group to accomplish.

 

The cutouts can be used to sort them into Seasons using the McDonalds french fres container.

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Seasons and Months

LINK to the resource: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Seasons-Theme-Resources-for-Elementary-ESL-1744981

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 Introduce the Seasons Vocabulary with Flashcards.  I made full size and smaller flashcards depending on your class size.

Teacher: Spring! It’s Spring.
Ask more questions:
Teacher: Which Season is between Spring and Fall ?
Students: Summer!

I know that many teachers are in dual language settings and I am a Spanish Native Language Speaker. I made a set of Seasons Flashcards in Spanish.

Review the Months of the Year using the cards.

Have the students sort with you on the board the months for each Season.

Teacher: What month is this ?

Student: Winter! It’s Winter.

Teacher: Which months are there in the Winter ?

Student: December, January, February.

Teacher: When is Spring ?

Student: March, April, May.

Teacher: What season is it in July ?

Student: Summer!

Hand in the questionnaire to the students. They walk around asking questions to their classmates.

Then graph the results on the board.

               Review the preposition used for Seasons.

A worksheet! Well, actually three. Hand in the first two worksheets to the students. Dictate how to color each letter of the Seasons Words.

Teacher: Color letter “e ”green. Which seasons has an “e ”?

Students: Summer! Winter!

Continue with all the other letters, it is an alphabet review and students will notice the spelling of the words.

Dictate how to color all the months of the year to practice listening.

Teacher: Color December pink.

When students finish coloring, they cut and paste the months in each Season box.

Students go their notebooks and pair each Season box to a picture.

And to finish the sorting, a worksheet to answer.

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Birthday Unit Resources for Elementary ELL

  LINK to the Birthday unit resource that can be used with first graders: 

https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Birthday-Theme-Resources-for-Elementary-ELL-2101105

There is more for the Birthday unit here:

https://eflelementaryresources.blogspot.com/2020/02/birthday-unit-for-esl.html

Birthday Flashcards. Flashcards are still effective tools for the class. Plan motivating games with the theme for independent learning or for groups.

Place the flashcards on the board. Point to the cake.

Teacher: Cake. It’s a cake.

Birthday has Flashcards. A set of boys and girls going to a party with a gift and party hat or balloons. Place them on the board and write any set of numbers that you want to review. I choose from the 20’s to the 40.Ask as many questions as you can.

Teacher: What does number 21 have?

Students: He has a hat.

Teacher: What color is the hat?

Students: It is red, purple and yellow. 

Birthday Vocabulary Spelling.

Use the cupcake letter tiles to build the theme´s vocabulary words and review the ones from previous units. Each student of group of students can have a set of letters.

·       Children can line up the tiles in alphabetical order. Make it a contest.

·       Place the flashcards in a visible place and have students build the words.

·       Have children build new words in an allotted time. See which group has built the more correct words.

Birthday Cupcake small book.

Creating their own books will develop a positive attitude towards reading. In the doing, it will involve that children will be motivated as they will own a book that they will be able to read at home. It will enhance their narrative skill by telling the story to their parents.

Birthday cutouts for introducing prepositions.

Print and cutout the birthday cutouts to introduce prepositions. Place the table cutout in the middle of the board.

Teacher: What is this?

Students: It’s a cupcake.

Teacher: Where is the cupcake?

Students: It’s on the table.

Continue asking questions using all the prepositions.

Birthday cake and Numbers tracing cards.

For the lower elementary students, these tracing cards are good for reviewing. 

Birthday cake and Numbers tracing cards.

For the lower elementary students, these tracing cards are good for reviewing.

 Birthday Worksheets.

Worksheet 1. Students read and color the balloons. The worksheet can be turned into a notebook activity. Have the students glue the sentence next to each balloon.

Worksheet 2. Students read and color the boys and girls. Then they have to cut out each person and glue them next to the correct paragraph on their notebook.

Worksheet 3. I couldn’t help it when I saw these Party Animals clip art and created this worksheet that can be done in several steps or in different ways.

First, have the students color the animals as you dictate them to practice listening. It also helps to keep the pace as students have to color on the time that you give them such as a minute for each animal.  Teacher: Color the giraffe orange!

There is the cake that students color as in the paragraph that you hand in. It can be done as a diorama. Students read the paragraph and place the animals where it corresponds. I placed an opened clip behind each item. Students can take turns reading each sentence and another student has to place the animal.

It can also be done as a poster . I glued everything as in the paragraph.

or a notebook activity.

Birthday Pocket Charts.5 words and colors to make pocket charts of use them on the desk to make phrases.

There is a BUNDLE resource for the Birthday Unit. LINK: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Birthday-Unit-for-Kindergarten-and-Elementary-ESL-BUNDLE-5652069

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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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