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

Seasons and nature activities help elementary ESL students connect vocabulary with the world around them. Using trees, animals, and seasonal visuals makes it easier for students to observe changes in nature while practicing speaking, sorting, spelling, and prepositions.

Introduce Seasons with Tree Flashcards

 Start with the trees flashcards in different seasons.

Sort Trees by Season

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.

Use a Tree Craft for Speaking Practice

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.

Introduce Nature Vocabulary, video!

Sort Nature Vocabulary by Season

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.

Seasons and Nature Prepositions Game

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.

 Seasons and Nature Prepositions Game, video:

Use Cutouts for More Seasonal Sorting

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

Use Cutouts for More Seasonal Sorting, video: 

Seasons and Weather Activities for Elementary ESL Students, go to the blog post: https://eflelementaryresources.blogspot.com/2020/03/seasons-and-weather.html

And there is still one last part for the Seasons Unit: Seasons and Verbs. Follow me! Please leave your comments.

Seasons and Clothes

Seasons and Clothes Activities for Elementary ESL Students for the Seasons pack, at this LINK:https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Seasons-Theme-Resources-for-Elementary-ESL-1744981

Teaching clothes and seasons vocabulary helps elementary ESL students describe what people wear in different weather conditions. Using visual materials, sorting activities, and hands-on tasks makes learning meaningful and connected to real-life situations.

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

Sort Clothes by Season

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.

seasons clothing ESL lesson elementary learners,video!

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.

Seasons and Clothes Worksheets! 

The frogs again, but this time Seasons and Clothes.

This is how students should complete the worksheets of the clothes according to the season.

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. 

Write Sentences About Clothes

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.

Teaching seasons with nature helps students notice visual changes in the environment and connect vocabulary with real-life observations, go to the blog post: https://eflelementaryresources.blogspot.com/2020/03/seasons-and-nature.html

                                

                             

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SEASONS and Weather

           Seasons and Weather Activities for Elementary ESL Students Resource pack at this  LINK: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Seasons-Theme-Resources-for-Elementary-ESL-1744981

Teaching seasons and weather vocabulary helps elementary ESL students describe the world around them and talk about daily life. Using visual materials and interactive activities allows students to connect language with real-life experiences.

Practice Weather Vocabulary with Flashcards

 When teaching the Seasons, the Weather vocabulary is up. Here are the ESL Weather flashcards to introduce them.    

                   

I also made them for FREE in Spanish. LINK:https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/El-Clima-Flashcards-The-Weather-Flashcards-in-Spaish-5342516

Ask and Answer Questions

Use the flashcards to sort the Weather into each Season on the board.

                                      Teacher: What season is this ?

Students: Summer !

Teacher: What is the weather ?

Students: It is hot !

Teacher: When is it rainy ?

Students: In the Spring !

Teacher: What is the weather like in the Fall?

Students: It is cloudy and stormy ! 

There is a sorting worksheet to put this into practice. 

Have the students glue the weather words to each Season box.

This is how it looks like. As I told you before, dictate a color for each season and for each weather word.

Teacher: Winter is pink.

I took the templates provided with the months and had the students match month and weather to each season on their notebooks.

Use Interactive Activities 

There is also a flap book to put together Seasons, Months and Weather.

There is a set of Seasons, Months and Weather Cards to sort.

Use Sorting cards

It can be sorted out on a desk as group work.

It can be sorted out using recycled Mc Donald’s Fries containers.

Teachers love board games or game boards! 

Here is another one. Notice that it is a closed game board. Have one of the students throw the dice and depending the number it lands it will be the starting point. For example, if it lands in three or five, the students will start on the rain spot on the board.

The cards can be used or not. The cards are dark yellow and light yellow as the board. If the student lands on light yellow, well, read the light yellow card and answer the question in order to continue playing.

Each student will use a marker picture. I taped an opened clip in the back to make them stand.

Here is the printed the game.

A Seasons and Weather book.

 I made two versions, a reading book. It is a two in one page format, 7 pages to print.

A coloring and tracing book.

I put the book together using yarn. 

And, watch the video on how the  book looks like.

A pocket chart for extra practice. 

Students can work alone or in pairs.

 cards for writing sentences

 It’s like having prompts. Students select words from the cards and write sentences on their notebooks.

Worksheets for the Seasons and Weather 

 

Worksheet one. It is a writing the vocabulary words practice.

Then, have the students cut all the vocabulary word boxes and write sentences.

Worksheet two. Have the students read and color each box. Then, cut each box and place a book ring to read as a book.

Seasons and verbs ESL activities grammar is the blog post must see, here:   https://eflelementaryresources.blogspot.com/2020/03/seasons-and-verbs-for-esl.html

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