3P's lessons plans

sábado, 6 de febrero de 2016

Fruit and Vegetable Theme

I joined both themes, 4 fruit (apple,banana,pear,orange) and 4 veggies
( onion, carrot, potato,tomato).
Link to all resources to keep students engaged during the language learning process:         https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Fruit-and-Vegetable-Activities-for-Elementary-ELLs-2371980


                                     
Nothing like flashcards to introduce the vocabulary words.
Fruit and vegetables flashcards ESL


GRAPHING.Show the flashcards in random order and one at a time. Have the students stand up if they like the item on the flashcard. Have a student write the results on the board.
Teacher: How many students like apples?
Students: four students!


Use this Domino Game to maintain the learner´s interest.

The cutouts help to create the contexts in which the vocabulary words become meaningful. The students will participate in a conversation by expressing information.
You can print all the puzzle pieces in 11 different colored construction paper. Place a fruit or vegetable on each color.
Teacher: Where is the onion ?
Student: It is on yellow.
Teacher: What is next to the onion ?
Student: a potato on blue.
Teacher: pear!
Student: on orange.

Use the cutouts for introducing This/ These.

 And for sorting fruit and vegetables. Hand in all the cutouts to random students. Write fruit and vegetables on the board and tell them that at your signal they have to run to the board and place them where they belong.

And for more practice of the vocabulary words ,a match game. Make it motivating.  Provide more language practice using the cards in speaking and listening. It can be a game played in pairs asking simple questions. Student 1 who asks the questions has to place the cards in a Yes pile or a No pile, then see how many cards are in each pile.
Student 1: Do you like bananas ? 
Student 2: Yes, I do/ No, I don´t.

And for reading and writing.
Make a print of the cards for each group in class. Have the children in the group shuffle all the cards and place them face down on the table. One student turns two cards and reads or says what is on each card. If the cards are a match, he/she keeps them. If not, the cards must be returned to the table. All students must play. When all the cards are gone from the table, the students have to write a sentence on their notebooks with the cards they have.

Encourage students to interact with the shopping lists. Print all the cutouts or have play food toys available in class. One group will be the shoppers and another will be the sellers. You can have many shops and many shoppers. Hand in each student a shopping list card and the other group the food, not all the food has to be available in all the shops.
The buyers have to go to shopping.
Student Shopper: Do you have tomatoes?
Student Seller: Yes, I do. Here!
Student Shopper: Do you have bananas ?
Student Seller: No, I don´t. Sorry! ( moves on to another shop)

I know that you are always looking for worksheets. Here are 6 of them. Worksheets are good for individual quiet time. Go around asking questions about the pictures. Use them to review written grammar points.  Do your own worksheets and place them on the board so the students can do self-check.
Worksheet 1 and 2:
Worksheet 3 and 4:
  
Worksheet 5 and 6:

Pocket charts are good for students that finish first and need more activities. If you don´t have a pocket chart just have them do the matching on a table or the floor.


lunes, 26 de octubre de 2015

Halloween ideas for Kindergarten English Language Learners


I looked up at old files and found some pictures to share.
Bat Necklace. I found the file at www.familyfun.com

I traced the pattern onto black construction paper with a white crayon. Then, punched a hole and added a yarn.
I used to subscribe to www.kidsoup.com. They have many printables. These bats  are so nice for hanging as a number sequence line using clothespins.

Bat word family. Got it at www.makinglearningfun.com
 From the same website. I made the legs out of fun foam and used a plastic black plate instead of a paper plate.
And this alphabet web is from the same site, as well. I used a shoe lace for the weaving.
Do some fun math. Pumpkin addition. Another wonderful page. www.childcareland.com. I made the numbers using bottle caps.











If you want any of the files, please write: ei98srl@gmail.com. I am preparing more Halloween resources.
Check my other blog post and find more resources:
http://eflpreschoolteachers.blogspot.com/2015/10/halloween-2015.html


martes, 11 de agosto de 2015

Feelings and Emotions Activities for Elementary ESL

 Link to the resource:

                                  Watch the video of the resource:


The shapes and adjectives of emotions or feelings book: here´s a book to review shapes and colors. Students will fill in the blanks with a feelings word and draw the mouth expression accordingly. There´s another version where students will also fill in the shape word. Nice to cover the vocabulary and grammar.

adjectives of emotions or feelings book

The family and feelings book: students will review family members as they draw the mouth expression and write the feeling. This is also included in the family blog post and TPT unit.

Feelings Clip Board: use it in your literacy center for active learning. Students can independently put the clip word corresponding to the picture. They can practice the new words and solve the problem at his/her own pace.
I glued the word onto wood clothespin.

Monsters Feeling Book: There´s a colored version to be used as a reader.  
There´s a second version to be used as a coloring book. Students have to read in order to color the monster by reviewing facial parts and colors. It will give children the opportunity to practice coloring inside the lines with patience and improving motor skills. Students will have to focus on each part of the face. 

I included puppets to along to identify emotions and name them.

Word wall: Display the pictures and words on the wall or bulletin board. Use it before, after or during reading or writing activities. It can be used individually, small groups or the whole class as a permanent reference to the new words creating a rich print environment.

I am adding the flashcards.

Trace the word cards: children learn to read  and spell faster when they write with their hand. The benefit with extend beyond the childhood years by preventing writing difficulties in the future.

Pocket chart: this activity teaches sight words and vocabulary. I use a commercially made pocket chart and make all the cards in the same format so you can mix them accordingly to your class. The pocket charts are not used enough in the English class, in most Latin countries they are not even available. If you make one I´d love to see it.

jueves, 7 de mayo de 2015

Mother´s Day Activities for Elementary ELL

LINK to this resource and more:

It is difficult to find easy activities for the Holiday.
 I designed a complete the book for Mom.

The pages are  for the children to complete following their mother´s characteristics.
 The numbers for the age. The children can cut images from magazines, bring pictures from home or draw their own pictures.

Photo booths and Props are popping everywhere, I made mine for Mother´s Day.
 Use them for greeting cards, fun classroom pictures for the year book or the celebration if you have one.
And very simple cards are included:

viernes, 1 de mayo de 2015

Body Theme for Elementary Language Learners

Get the files for the parts of the body resource for teaching Elementary English Language Learners at my Bilingual Marketplace store:
https://www.bilingualmarketplace.com/products/body-theme-for-elementary-ell?variant=37172657979556

 Watch the video of the resource:


Emotion, play and surprising activities are the secret ingredients to learning. This resource is help students describe the parts of the body and to describe people, family members and later on even animals.

Body unit draw book: Let them recognize that everybody in class is different.
Have the students draw  their bodies as they read the sentences. 
The grammar points are: possessive adjectives (This is my face) and demostratives (These are my legs)
Body unit draw book
Watch the video of the printable  book:

To learn Body Words Board Activity 1: Draw several shapes as torsos on the board . Have children come up to the complete the body.
Teacher: karla and Paul, draw the head.
Continue with more body parts until the drawing is complete. Go over all the body parts and label them.   Then, have children draw themselves with their complete bodies and label all their body parts.
learn Body Words Board Activity

Board Activity 2 Divide the class in several teams. Have a student from each team go to the board. Say a body vocabulary word and have the students write it on the board as fast as they can.  Give a point to each team that does it correctly. Continue with more words.

Children can count with their fingers. I printed onto cardboard  a right and left hand. Then I glued all the numbers onto clothespin. Students have to number all the fingers in the hand.
Body unit and the finger numbers
  
Adjectives Left and right related to the body: teach directionality during this unit. Have students hold both hands in front of themselves. Use the hands and arrows available for this purpose. You can make them smaller and paste the hands on their tables to remind them of left and right. Have students say right hand and show it to you. Do the same with left hand.
Adjectives Left and right related to the body

Pocket charts help children manipulate language in a special way. This time I included the adjectives Big and small as a sorting body part activity. if you don´t have a pocket chart do it on a file folder, on the table or the board.
adjectives Big and small as a sorting body part activity

Or make puppets with the feet, hand,arms cutouts and make big and small body parts patterns.
puppets with the feet, hand,arms cutouts

Another version, using complete sentences or making sentences.

Make words: print letters onto different colored paper or construction paper. Give students the letters to make body parts words as in a crossword.
make body parts words as in a crossword

Spelling: approach spelling as problem solving instead of a memorization activity. Teach spelling strategies and skills. Here are some ideas.

Task cards: motivate students with these cards instead of a regular worksheet. Students will have to deal with one question at a time instead of a whole page in front of him/her. I create the task cards with all the grammar points in mind and you can use the ones that suit your class. Use them to review before tests. Students can work individually or in pairs. Save paper by printing  and laminating the set. Students write on their notebooks.
Task cards body unit

Worksheet: there is no perfect worksheet for the body unit, but make changes to make it work. After I did the worksheet as in the instructions I cut everything out and created a label all activity by labelling the body parts and then the colors.
Worksheet body unit

Body Unit Domino game benefits group learning experiences and reinforcement of the new language.
Body Unit Domino

Body half game: print as many as you need. Give one half card to each child and have them walk around finding their other match and stand together. They can ask questions: Do you have the arm ? Make it a speaking activity.

Tracing helps with :
-       Eye-hand development and use of the writing tools: pencils, crayons, markers,etc
-     fine motor skills
      Develops the awareness of key concepts of print  in  the new language, even more when the language alphabet is completely different
-       teaches directionality about the ley movements for letter and word formation
-     The result is a neat worksheet or card that makes the child like independent handwriting that has been lost for the excessive use of technology.    
     Students can show the card and say: This is an eye.

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Picture and word matching: this kind of activity help develop the word recognition skill necessary to reading. Students can see very letter in each word in his own work area instead of looking at it on the board that several meters away from him/her. Children need to focus on recognizing words readily  to move on to meaning.


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