Easter Craft

 In a hurry I made these Easter Gifts for some teachers. I recycled Nescafé Coffee jars. I went to Breick Chocolate store ( La Paz, Bolivia) and bought the bunny and the smallest eggs they had. The store clerck was nice enough to give me the white grass to put in the bottom and set the bunny and eggs.

Here the materials. I painted the lid of the jar with acrilic pink paint. I created the stickers. I can send them to you for free. (ei98srl@gmail.com)

If you  make a similar craft I´d love to see.

 I would like to publish a collection .

Routine Verbs for ESL/EFL learners

Link to the resources: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Routine-Verbs-for-Elementary-ELL-3088833
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For this blog entry I checked several books from many publishing companies. The most common routine verbs were these, but I createad total of 185 flashcards.

Games make the lesson an engaging learning experience. Children will practice the verbs and you can listen how much they know. They might get creative as they make up their rules for the games. Teams will be formed and they will have to communicate in English.

Routine Verbs Flashcards games

Game : Spelling Verb Bingo

Place all the verb flashcards on the board. Have the children select only 6 and write them down on their paper. Call out a word and place a tick on the flashcard. Use the small cards for calling the verbs. Children cross the words as they have it on their spelling bingo grid.

Game : Slap Use the small flash cards to spread out on the floor or a table face up. One student can be the caller, give him /her the slap caller badge and the other players  will be the slappers, who will slap  the correct card. The one that does it first keeps the slapped card. Continue until all the cards have been called. The winner is the one with most cards.

For the game I made these slap caller necklace. I cut and glued them onto fun foam, punched a hole and thread yarn into the hoop. I use them to have the group respect the caller and be more organized at playing the game. You can play with any set of word and use the necklace but change the caller every time. You can even write on the back of the necklace the caller´s  name so you choose a different child every time.

Game: Mime. Show a flashcard and do the corresponding action as you say it. Have the student mime and repeat the action.

Teacher: wake up,wake up !

student: wake up,wake up !

Game : Questions. Place 6 flashcards on the board. Write a question word under each one: Who ?, Why ?, Where ?, When ?, What ?, How many ? . Divide the class into pairs and have them write questions with each question word. When all the questions are ready, have them exchange  the questions sheets with other pairs to answer them.

Game: Verbs in a bag. Place the routine flashcards in a bag. Sit the children in a circle if you have a small group. For large groups, it might be good to have several sets and do the activity in groups.

The first child of the circle gets a card from the bag and without showing it mimes the actions. The children have to guess and shout out the verb. Then make a sentence with the verb.

Children: play soccer !

Children: Henry is playing soccer./ Henry plays soccer/ Henry can play soccer.

Cutouts for Routine Verbs

Get realia or use the cutouts for some routine verbs. Put them in a small bag or box. Grab one and do the action.

Teacher: (Pretending to brush her hair) I brush my hair with my brush.

Give the brush to another student and have him or her do the same. 

Call several students to the front. Give a cutout or realia to each student and show the action flashcard and have the students do the action at your signal. Have the rest of the class find out who is doing the action.

Teacher: Ready! Go ! read a book.

Students: David !

Teacher: David reads a book.

Students: David reads a book.

Place all the cutouts on the desk or around the classroom. Mime and say an action, but without the corresponding realia or cutout.

Teacher: I eat lunch.

Students run to find the corresponding realia or cutout to hand it in to you.

Student: Here.(gives the fork to the teacher)

Teacher: I eat lunch with my fork.

Game: Play I want to.  Continue with all the cutouts in different places around the classroom.

Teacher: I want to brush my teeth.

The students run and the first one to get the toothbrush and hand it in to you wins a point.Continue with more.

Game: Match card to cutout.I made small cards to go with the cutouts. Make some examples on the board and have the students arrange all of them using masking tape on the board. Then have them write sentences using the visuals as reference.

Teacher: go to bed. I go to bed at 11 o´clock every night. 

Game : Print a camera for yourself in a bright construction paper. Have several more printed as well.

Students of all ages like the camera. Use the camera to have the children name each verb as you pass the picture, you can make the strip as long as you want.  

I also included the photo clip art, children either draw the verb, look them up in magazines and cut them or simply cut them from the small cards here. They can also write the verb or write complete sentences. 

They can make a photo album using their own pictures and write sentences under each photo.

Game Who is ? Have six children come to the front. Hand in a routine verb card to each one and the corresponding realia or cutout to act it out. They have to look at it and mime the action at your call.

Teacher: Ready ! Action !

Teacher: drink !

Students: Laura !

Teacher: study !

Students: Jorge !

Then do it backwards.

Teacher: Ready ! Action !

Teacher: Patricia !

Students: watch TV !

Teacher: Tomas !

Teacher:  Have dinner!

Game : Pocket charts. Have the students make pocket chart phrases. If you  have a pocket chart, place it in a visible location in your classroom. If not , children can make a similar one with poster board.

Write the list of the verbs or place the flashcard and have them make as many phrases as possible. They can either draw or cut out a matching illustration for their phrases. Make your own model. This is mine, I was planning on putting it on the pocket chart, but I couldn´t find it. Instead I grabbed a poster board and glued it like this. Children can make their own version, maybe a verb for each group and see what they come up with. Play it as a game by assigning a winner to the group that has the most phrases.

Routine Charts: make small groups and have the students fill out the chart template with the routine verbs. The chart is for groups of 4 students and 5 verbs. Give them the template. They have to ask each other questions in order to complete the chart and give a final tally.

Student 1: Oriana, Do you jump rope at school ?

Oriana: Yes, I do.

Small cards Games

Game  Small Cards. Lay all the cards face down on a table.  A student turns a card around, reads it and makes a complete sentence.

Student: clean. I clean the house with my mother every Saturday.    
 If it is right the student keeps the card.  If the sentence is wrong, the student puts the card back.

Then I made two versions of picture dictionary using the small cards, one is to glue the missing picture and the other is to glue the missing word. It can be done in groups.

Game BINGO! And I added a BINGO Grid. The grid is for 9 spaces. But you can give out only 3 spaces to each student. He/she can write the routine verb on each space or glue a routine verb from the small cards.

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Community Helpers, Jobs and Occupations

I´ve gathered a lot of old clip art to make this big collection. There are 315 flashcards from old jobs and occupations to the present. I searched all the vocabulary from the book series and came up with this list. I guess that you can use them with all the levels even adults.  I will receive requests to change names on any or to include some more. Notice that some jobs have different ways to write it. For example, Steelworker and Steel worker. If you google the word, both versions will show.

Link to the 315 flashcards of jobs from the present and the past.

https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Community-Helpers-Jobs-and-Occupations-Flashcards-2549710

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                         Flashcards Games and Activities

1.       Ask Questions. Hold up a flashcards and ask a question.

Teacher: What is he ?

Students: He´s a puppeteer.

Teacher: Where does he work ?

Students: He works at a Theater.

Students can also answer the questions on their notebooks.

2. Write a sentence.

Hand in a flashcards to a student. Ask him/her to write as many sentences as possible. Student: He is a Professor. He works in a University. He is a Math Professor. He is funny. He is playing with a yo-yo.

3. Story Group. Set a group of students together and hand each one a flashcard. Have them write a story all together that relates the people in the flashcards.

Story: The Scientist has a wife, she is a Manicurist. They love going to the Theater. The Mail carrier gave them the theater invitation to a play. They saw a Knight there.

4-    Alphabetical order. Challenge the students to write the jobs in alphabetical order on their notebooks. Make it a race. The first to do it correctly wins.

5. Descriptions. Students write only words to describe all the flashcard.

6. Play a Class Bingo game. Place all the flashcards that you are working with on the board.  If you are using 24 flashcards, then have the students select 8 or 12  to write on their notebooks. Write your 24 flashcards selection on separate piece of paper and put them in a bag. Call on each word to play BINGO!!

7. Make Venn Diagram.  Instruct how to make a Venn Diagram. Pair the students. Hand in 2 flashcards. Students make sentences with similarities and differences.

8. Word Association. Show a flashcard and have the students write as many words in an allotted time related to the job. Award appoints.

Pirate: boat, sword, mean, parrot, sea, money, treasure, island.

9. What am I ?  Have a volunteer student come to the front and sit. Hand him/her a flashcard without showing it to the class. Students ask Yes/No questions. The first student to find out the job on the flashcard will take the chair.

Questions: Do you work in a school ? NO. 

                    Do you wear a helmet ? No.

Do you wear a uniform ? Yes, a white jacket.

Do you use any materials ? yes, chemical items.

10. Analogy. Display the flashcards and have the students find the analogies in writing. Most of these jobs end with ER.

11. Show the numbers on the board and elicit the job on each one as you say the number.

Teacher: What´s number 10 ?

Students: He´s an ice cream man.

Teacher: What does he do ?

Students: He sells ice cream

12. Distribute one card to each child in class. Students have to stand up as they hear their card called.

13. Position the cards around the classroom. Name a job and have students point to the flashcard.

14.True or False. Show a card.  Say a sentence related to the card. Students show the Yes Puppet or the No Puppet. I put the file in the store... check it... it might be free.

Teacher: He is a car dealer. He works in a supermarket.

15. Mime. Select a card and show it to a volunteer student. That student mimes the job and the class has to guess what the job is.

 16. Dictionary. Hand in a flashcard to each student. Have them find that word in the dictionary and copy a sentence. Than at your signal, have the students hand in their card to another student and  continue looking up the job on the dictionary.

17.        Listen and do. Call volunteer students to come to the board. Give instructions.Use the commands Flashcards if necessary. LINK: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Classroom-Commands-Flashcards-1816475

Ann. Touch the Pharmacist.

Samuel. Swap the diver with the tire repairer.

José. Bring me the witch.

Gabriel. Get the Veteran and give it to Mary.

Kay. Point to the table tennis player.

Lily. Circle the shopkeeper.

Peter. Show me the dentist.

Ian. Check the Engineer.

Ory. Find the Paleontologist. Show the Classroom Command to hint the student what to do.

      18. Who ?  Place the flashcards on the board and describe one, only saying a word. The children point to it and guess which one is it.

     Teacher: green dress.

Students: The Heroine!

19. Write several jobs  on the board. Have the students place the flashcards under each one.

 20.Cover a flashcard with a handkerchief, if it is white the better and ask Who is this ? Then proceed to remove the handkerchief and see if the class guessed correctly.

21. The Alphabet: Place plastic letters in a bag. Have a student draw a letter from the bag and all the students have to find all the flashcards associated with that letter. In this case , letter M.

22.Hold it up: hand in all the flashcards among all the students. Place the students in a straight line, if possible.  Say the job word in random order and each student must hold up their flashcard

Teacher:  Cleaner. Orchestra conductor, figure skater, mechanic, coast guard, policeman, producer, chemist, pilot, fortune teller, cleaner.

23. Questions. Place the flashcards on the board and ask questions.  The student  that answers correctly wins the card.  Award the students with the most flashcards at the end.

Teacher: Who has an Harp ?

Student: The Harpist.

Teacher: Who sells fish ?

Student: The Fishmonger.

24. A Hint. Have a flashcard in your hand and don´t show it to the class. Give some hints. 

Teacher:  I love colors. I work in houses. I use  big brushes

25. Slap. Place the flashcards on the board. Have two students slap the flashcard with a flyswatter as you name them.

Teacher: Cellist !

                                                      Here are all the other flashcards.

This resource is part of the Community Helpers BUNDLE. LINK:https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Community-Helpers-Unit-for-ESL-BUNDLE-6415647

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