Seasons Unit FREE Resources for Elementary ESL

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As you might have seen I created a complete Seasons Unit  Resources. The blog posts included: Seasons and Months, Seasons and Weather, Seasons and Clothes, Seasons and Nature, Seasons and Activities(verbs).
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                                  Let’s start with Flashcards.

                           Introduce Grammar points.

Tracer book: It helps extend the vocabulary. There is a black and white version for the students to color and create their own book to take home.

When the students finish tracing the sentences on their books, start reading. Assign a color to identify each sight word.

Teacher: Circle the word “it” red.

Teacher: Circle the word “is” blue.

Teacher: Circle the word “a” yellow.

Help the students assemble the book. I made this one by punching a hole on the side and connected using a metal ring. Read again using a straw as a pointer, have them look for specific words.

Teacher: Look for the word “Spring”. Use your pointer. 

                   A set of matching words and pictures cards.

Students in groups can match each picture to each word.

Another game: Have the students place all the cards face up on the table. Say a word and have them find the word and the picture.

Teacher: Find “sun”.

Students: sun!  Student shows the picture and the word.

Paper plates are great for sorting the vocabulary words into seasons. Write each Season word on each paper plate.

I found this game and gave it a try. Let me know if you liked it.

There is a sunscreen lotion clipart to make a card holder. You can use it to play a guessing game by slowly taking a card out and having the children guess what it is.

Spelling BINGO! Spelling is related to the students’ reading and writing abilities. Give students the template and ask them to write 6 of all the words of their choice. You can use the matching cards as calling cards. Students cross out the words called out. The winner is the first one to cross the 6 words.

Some worksheets for extra practice.

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Seasons and Nature

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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 Clothes

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 Start by reviewing all the clothes vocabulary using the flashcards provided.

Have the students sort the people flashcards into each season.

Teacher: What season is this ?

Students: SPRING!

Teacher: What is she wearing ?

Students: a t-shirt, a skirt and rain boots.

Teacher: What is this ?

Students: It’s an umbrella.

Teacher: When do you wear a scarf ?

Students: In the Winter.

Teacher: What do you wear in the Spring ?

Students: A raincoat.

                                            Clothes Flashcards:

Have the students sort all the clothes flashcards into each season.

Have the students sort the clothes out on the worksheet.

And sort out along with the weather and Months cutouts from last blog post using the fries containers.

Worksheets! The frogs again, but this time Seasons and Clothes.

This is how students should complete the worksheets.

But, that’s not all, have the students cut and paste the frogs on their notebooks. Then, write sentences according to their level.

I put all the notebook writing together into a book!

I made it all into a video.

This is the second worksheet for the reading ring that I presented last blog post. The students color the worksheet and then cut the strips and place it in the book ring.

An extra worksheet.

Have the students create a Venn Diagram. Students work in pairs. Assign each student a Season in which they will write about the clothes that are worn on their side of the Venn Diagram. And they write in the center of the Venn Diagram the clothes that are common for both seasons. They will have to discuss on the clothes that are common and the ones that are not. Assign different combination of Seasons.

Winter-Fall, Winter-Spring, Winter-Summer, Fall-Spring, Fall-Summer, Spring-Summer. Have the students present the results to the class.

There are the four Seasons Scenes for the students to complete the weather and dressing the child that will be pasted there. 

Included are the symbols of each season. It can be done as a group work. The students can write a text or do a show and tell about their season.

After the Seasons Scenes are reading, students can do free writing and create a poster.

These are games that you can play with the Seasons Unit or any other.

Word chain. Write a Season word on the board, e.g. Summer. Then the students have to say a word with the last letter of the word Summer, e.g. rain. This is a good warm up activity.

Spelling Game
Put a Season flashcard on the board and have teams or individuals make as many words as possible from those letters, e.g. Spring = S/sun, P/pants, R/rain, ,I/I, N/November, G/gloves.

Then, students write sentences using those words.

There is another part for this resource: Seasons Nature and more Vocabulary.

                                

                             

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