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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Present Continuous Flashcards

This is part 1 using more than 200 flashcards for Speaking activities.
Link: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Present-Continuous-Flashcards-for-Elementary-ESL-4403402

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Watch the video of the complete resource:

Activity 1. Place the flashcards on the board and say a wrong sentence on purpose for each flashcard.

Teacher: She is eating spaghetti.

Students: No! She is eating a hamburger.

Activity 2. Show a flashcard and have the students do the action and say the word. Do with as many flashcards as you can.

Students: dancing! Dancing! (as they do the action).

Activity 3. Students write a 3x3 Bingo board on their notebooks. Place all the action flashcards on the board that you are working on. Students choose 9 action words and write them on each square. Take away all the flashcards from the board, mix them up and start calling the verb flashcards as you show each one to the class. Students cross out the ones that they have, the first student to do it shouts BINGO!

Activity 4. Place the eat flashcards on the board. Designate a student a flashcard. Ask questions.

Teacher: Are you eating cake?

Student : Yes, I am.

Teacher: Am I eating ice cream?

Student : Yes, You are.

Activity 5. Make a grid on the board using the flashcards.

Teacher: B2!

Student: Dancing. They are dancing.

Teacher: She is opening her locker.

Student: C3!

Activity 6. Relate the weather to the present continuous.

Teacher: It’s hot. What are they doing ?

Students: (pointing to each flashcard) He is roller skating. She is cutting her tree. He is drinking a soda. He reading a book.

Write a name next to each flashcard. Ask questions.

Teacher: It’s raining. What is Ken doing ?

Students: (pointing to each flashcard) He is walking.

Teacher: It’s snowing. Rose!

Students: skiing! She is skiing.

Have the children write sentences on their notebooks.

Activity 7. And the time. Review the time with the flashcards as you place them on the board.

Teacher: It’s eleven o’clock. What is Grandpa doing?

Students: He is planting flowers.

Teacher: It’s five o’clock. Who is walking the dog?

Students: Father is walking the dog.

Teacher: It’s nine o’clock. Is Sister writing?

Students: Yes, she is. 

Activity 8. Family Members are doing something.

Teacher: What is Father doing ?.

Students: He is drinking coffee.

Teacher: Who is walking ?.

Student 1: Aunt is walking.

Teacher: Is the baby sitting or standing?

Student 1: The baby is sitting on the floor.

Students can bring personal photos and do a show and tell.

Activity 9. Routines. Place the get up flashcard on the board and mime getting up. Have the students mime getting up and say the sentence: I am getting up. Continue with more daily routines as you place the flashcards on the board.

Point to each flashcard and ask questions.

Teacher: What is he doing?.

Student 1: He is making his bed.

Say a name of a flashcard in random order and have a student come up and point to it and say a sentence.

Teacher: take!

Student 1: He is taking a shower. ( pointing to the flashcard)

Activity 10. Place several flashcards on the board and write the questions words: 

Who, What; Where?

Teacher: CLIMB!

Students: Where is he climbing?

Teacher: He is climbing in Bolivia.

Students: Who is he climbing?

Teacher: Peter is climbing in Bolivia.

Students: What is he doing?

Teacher: He is climbing a mountain in Bolivia.

Have the students write questions on their notebooks.

Activity 11. Collocations. Place three flashcards on the board.

Teacher: What are they doing ?

Students: They are sitting.

Teacher: Where is he sitting ?

Students: He is sitting on a bench.  (write on a bench)

Continue with the other two. Tell students that adding words to a verb gives more details to a sentence in Present Continuous.

Activity 12. Now, place only one flashcard on the board. I used studying. Have the students dictate words to make more sentences.Create a mind map on the board.

Students: Math!

Teacher: She is studying Math.

Activity 12. TOWN.Make sentences using a town location. I made pairs of a place and a verb. Make sentences.

Teacher: They are running in the park.

Students: Where are they running ?

Teacher: sitting!

Students:Bank!

Activity 13. But transportation has its own verbs. Present ride, drive and fly. Then once again do collocations.

Teacher: Ride!

Students: ride a bike, ride a taxi, ride a motorcycle

Continue with drive and fly.

Students can add more words for any verb.

Student: ride a jeep!

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Valentine's Day colors

Valentine's Day is such a pretty Holiday!

I made this resource based on colors review.

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        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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