St. Patrick’s Day for Elementary ESL

Link to the St. patrick's Day resource: 

https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/St-Patricks-Day-for-Elementary-ESL-4428537

I have always liked this Holiday. In the 90’s I was teaching after school ESL and this is an old picture of what we did with the children.

Now, let’s start with the resources that I have prepared.

Puppets. Make puppets with the clovers to review colors.

Teacher: What color is this?

Students: red!

Teacher: It’s a red clover.

Worksheets. Have the students complete their worksheets to review color words.
Then place the worksheet in a clear plastic sheet. Students can trace the words using whiteboard markers and then erase. Save for future worksheets.

I made these colored plates once. I just colored a paper plate in a different color to do sorting. I am recycling them to sort the clovers.

I love the scrabble letters that I made for a product months ago. I am putting them here, you can use them for every single lesson just for making words or for making a crossword.

Or use the color letters printables to make the color words.

Use the writing pad or notebook for writing the color words.

The bottle caps printable is free. I made it years ago and have used it a lot. Here is the link. https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Number-Bottle-Caps-2155938

More worksheets. Students color and trace the words in the worksheet. Then, cut and paste on their notebooks and write a sentence. 

Or the students can color and cut each item and glue them alphabetically.

Listen and color worksheet.

Teacher: Color their hats green, black and yellow.

Teacher: Color his shirt orange and her blouse orange.

Teacher: Color their shoes black.

Review colors and numbers at the same time. Say the color of the numbers in random order.

Teacher: Number seven is orange.

Then, have the students write the color and number words next to each picture.

They can cut each number and dictate the order to put them.

Teacher: six, ten, nine, seven.

I found these cute gnomes images and I had to create something and thought that it could fit for prepositions. Students can color them and make a gnome village per group. I used toilet paper rolls, paper towels rolls and carton eggs. I glued the gnomes onto craft sticks and then made a slit onto the carton egg and placed the gnomes and the rest of the pieces.

I used them for prepositions. Students listen and place the gnomes and other items as they listen or they can give the instructions and the other groups follow.

Teacher: The gnome is next to house number 1.

The gnome is behind house number 3.

The gnome is in front of house number 4.

The clover is behind the yellow house.

A craft. I grabbed a black plastic plate that I had around the house, cut the middle of the plate to make a wreath. I glued all the pieces.

Let’s dress the leprechaun. Dictate the color for each clothes piece.

That give directions for gluing them.

Teacher: Color the hat green and the belt is black with yellow.

Glue the socks on the leprechaun. 

More clothes and body.  Color the pictures and label the parts of the body and the clothing pieces.

And flashcards! Yes, again… use for many games for those dreaded 5 minutes left.

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Thanksgiving Activities for Elementary English Language Learners

Thanksgiving ! First blog post for Thanksgiving. Resources very hard to find that can suit EFL/ESL students at this age. It is a Holiday that doesn't say anything to them, but as Language is Culture, it is something that we should teach. I used to have a Thanksgiving day, and all the resources were guided into reviewing previous lessons, recycle vocabulary  besides eating  Thanksgiving food, such as apple pie, turkey sandwiches, that was more less what I could find in my hometown for the Holiday.

Link to the resources: 
https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Thanksgiving-Resources-for-Elementary-English-Language-Learners-3479482

              

               A dress up Pilgrims to review clothes vocabulary.

Then make puppets using toilet paper rolls !

I made this big wreath with a paper plate that is used for placing cakes.

Cut a hole in the middle. Have the students paint the wreath or leave it plain. Students will color each item and glue them as they wish. Then, have each student come to the front to show his/her wreath and describe all the items. They can take it home or display in class.

Let´s review the parts of the body with a turkey.

First have the students color the parts of the body of the turkey that will have to be glued. It is a good idea to have your own template ready and colored to put up on the board to guide the students.

Teacher: Look at the turkey´s head. Color it brown.

Teacher: Look at the turkey´s body. Color it brown.

Teacher: Look at the turkey´s beak. Color it yellow.

Teacher: Look at the turkey´s waddle. Color it red.

Teacher: Look at the turkey´s wings. Color them brown.

Teacher: Look at the turkey´s feathers. Color number one pink. Color number two orange. Color number three purple. Color number four gray. Color number five red. Color number six green. Color number seven yellow. Color number eight blue.

And Finally, look at the turkey and color the legs orange.

Have the students then cut out all the pieces and start gluing them starting with the feathers, the head, the body, the beak, the wings and the waddle.There is a template with numbers, so the students have to match a feather number to a feather word in order to paste it. Then move on to glue each body part.

I had them cut the whole turkey and place it on a poster board or a large construction paper. I added the body parts to trace, cut and glue to the turkey.

A fun and easy craft. I made a colored and a black and white version. I punched a hole and used twig and yarn for the knot.

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