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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Valentine's Day colors activities for esl

Valentine's Day is such a pretty Holiday!

I made this resource based on colors review.

LINKS: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Valentines-Day-Colors-4367721

        To introduce the Holiday, I made some puppets to greet each child.You can use them for almost anything in the class during this month. It is an art to be learned on how to get the most benefit from them.

Now, review colors. The same puppets can be colored. But I placed them into a fun foam crown that I made with a little pocket on the front.

Teacher: What color am I? Red?

Students: NO!! Green! You are green.

The Scrabble letters printed in pink and red can add up to review writing the color word for each heart.

I made these colored paper plates years ago and they work well for sorting.

and a little writing using the colored hearts.

I love making books for the Holidays! It is a cut and paste book with trace the sentence on each page.  

To assemble it I found this cute idea on Pinterest and gave it a try. I thought it would be difficult but it turned out quite easy.Glue a piece of ribbon on the top of each page.

Glue the paper bags one onto another and place the paper with the ribbon into each paper bag.

                          To read each page the student has to pull the ribbon.

I added the character’s from the book to make puppets to make read alongs or for storytelling.

A simple and easy matching game. Students just color each heart in a color and match the heart to the word.

               

  Or use the worksheet.

Or assemble the OLD LADY that swallowed… a Heart, this time. 

I used a cereal box.

                 

     I made a few coloring pages. Some are color by number.

 Others are read and color.

                           

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Possessive pronouns, nouns, adjectives, form, questions for Elementary ESL

LINK to the resource on a unit to express possession:

https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Possessive-pronouns-nouns-adjectives-form-questions-for-Elementary-ESL-4344443

                            Watch the video of the resource:

I always use flashcards to introduce the grammar point. I wish I had all these resources when I was teaching at a school 30 years ago. I had to draw mine or use magazine cutouts. Well, time flies and here we are.

Use the big flashcards to place the on the board as mine.They will give the use of the possessive adjectives in context.

Teacher: I run to my school.

Underline and point out I and My. Continue with the rest of cards.

I also made some cutouts to make sentences.

Teacher: My favorite color is pink.

Students: Our favorite color is brown.

Play is also a teaching tool to review this grammar point giving student access to communication and creation.

Game 1: Play sentence association.

Display all the cards on a table and have the students place a sentence next to the picture card just as your board example.

And do even more, give them a blank rectangle and students write a sentence using a possessive adjective.

Game 2: Match the subject pronoun to the adjective pronouns.

Game 3. Make possessive adjectives sentences. Cut all the words from each sentence and have the students build the sentence and match to the picture cards. I glued each word onto fun foam to make their studier.

Game 4. Sort the sentences into Possessive adjectives, form, questions.

Or sort them using envelopes. I placed a big clip on the back of each envelope for standing purpose. I also glued the super children characters on each envelope.

Game 5. Feed the zebra. I cut all the words from each sentence of the sentence association game. I grabbed an empty soda plastic bottle and glued the zebra printable. I managed to cut the mouth out. Students feed the zebra by reading each word.

                           

                                 I made a short video.

                  On the notebook. It is always fun to cut and glue.

There is a bundle for the Adjectives for teaching ESL Elementary students. Check it out.

https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/All-Adjectives-BUNDLE-for-Kindergarten-and-Elementary-ELL-7009339

Numbers 1 to 100 for ESL Learners- part 2

This is the second part for numbers 1 to 100. It is all in one resource here:

https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Numbers-1-to-100-for-ESL-Learners-4316217

                                   Watch the video of the complete resource:

More Classroom-Ready Activities & Ideas to Teach Numbers 1–100 in ESL/EFL. This is Part 2 of our number series — giving you even more ways to help elementary English language learners (ELLs) practice numbers from 1 to 100 in meaningful ways. These activities build fluency, confidence, and number sense through games, speaking, listening, and interaction.

100s chart with Number, Colors and Letters flashcards. I saw a similar idea on an old book and thought I could make one that can be used in the classroom and a small version for students to play in small groups. Place on the board all the colors flashcards horizontally and the letters cards vertically and fill in with the numbers flashcards.

Teacher: F ! blue!

Students: 57!

Teacher: 88!

Students: I! green !

Make more examples for the class to guess. Then students in small groups can play with their printable version.

Use the Number chart sheet printable. Give students instructions for coloring some numbers.

Teacher: Number 91 is red.

I also have a the colored worksheet that you can use multiple times for speaking activities . Have the students read aloud the numbers in chorus as you say the row.

Teacher: Row F!

Students: 51,52,5,3,54,55,56,57,58,59,60!

Teacher: RED!

Students: 5,15,25,35,45,55,65,75,85,95!

Use the Ipad printable for writing.I placed the printable into a clear sheet and used white board markers for writing. All these materials can be used for all your themes.

I have this round puncher that I usually use to punch out colored cardboard pieces left from other projects. I made a matching game using them.

Give the students the blank squares and a numeral card. They have to write that number in words and keep it but hand in the number card.  Mix up the number cards and hand in the students a different number card. At your signal students have to stand up and walk around looking for a match of their number card and a word card that they wrote. When they have found a match they say MATCH! Go over and verify, take away both cards of the match and have them continue playing.

Tell the students that they are going on a fast counting investigation. Give each group a classroom item card and have them count how many of that item are there in the classroom.

Group 1. There are 25 backpacks.

I found the idea of a similar game at Mailbox.com, I thought that it is a fun speaking game and gave it a twist. I added children on motorcycles and a road, along with Go and stop sign, not missing the numbers cards 1 to 100. Get two lunch bags and glue the stop and go on each bag. Separate the class into small groups and hand each group a set of bags with the numbers cards in each bag and the game pieces. There are 5 children on their motorcycles. Each student picks a character. Student 1 picks a card from the Go bag and a card from the STOP bag. That students says the numbers from the go to the stop numbers. If the student 1 says all the numbers, he moves his character one line along the road and sets aside the number cards. If the student does not say the number correctly, then the character cannot move.

Place all the numbers in a bag. Grab a number card and say it. Have the students write 3 more consecutives numbers and read the sequence aloud.

The small number cards can be used to express number sense in the target language. I made a printable format to play with the numbers finding consecutive numbers, the numbers before and the numbers that go after a specific one.

I made this Monster eats box for my Alphabet blog post. I had it standing around the studio and used it with the Number cards.

Teacher: Find number 55. The monster is eating number 55!

Use the small number cards to review prepositions. I printed a big 100 number and placed a clip behind it so it can stand. I also placed small clips behind the small cards.

Teacher: Number 50 is on Number 100.

Teacher: Number 55 is behind Number 100.

Teacher: Number 57 is in front of Number 100.

There are many ways to have the students practice writing. 

Students can have their own set of scrabble letters and write the word for each Number flashcard.

I love this scrabble game. Students can play at their own pace. Students can make their own rules and have fun while writing number words.

Just three worksheets to join this theme. I have seen so many teachers using notebooks and I remembered me using them a lot. I would tear down a worksheet and make more activities on the notebooks. I gave my own worksheets a try.

And I got inspired remembering what I used to do years ago. Students can copy the numbers from the board or from the flashcards. Dictation is a good listening exercise.

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