SEASONS and Weather

           This is the second part of the Seasons Resource. 

LINK: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Seasons-Theme-Resources-for-Elementary-ESL-1744981
It is also available here:
https://www.bilingualmarketplace.com/products/seasons-unit-for-elementary-esl?variant=37168505684132

 When teaching the Seasons, the Weather vocabulary is up. Here are the 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

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.

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.

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.

I made these cards for writing sentences. It’s like having prompts. Students select words from the cards and write sentences on their notebooks.

 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.

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Seasons and Months

LINK to the resource: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Seasons-Theme-Resources-for-Elementary-ESL-1744981

It is also available here:

https://www.bilingualmarketplace.com/products/seasons-unit-for-elementary-esl?variant=37168505684132

 Introduce the Seasons Vocabulary with Flashcards.  I made full size and smaller flashcards depending on your class size.

Teacher: Spring! It’s Spring.
Ask more questions:
Teacher: Which Season is between Spring and Fall ?
Students: Summer!

I know that many teachers are in dual language settings and I am a Spanish Native Language Speaker. I made a set of Seasons Flashcards in Spanish.

Review the Months of the Year using the cards.

Have the students sort with you on the board the months for each Season.

Teacher: What month is this ?

Student: Winter! It’s Winter.

Teacher: Which months are there in the Winter ?

Student: December, January, February.

Teacher: When is Spring ?

Student: March, April, May.

Teacher: What season is it in July ?

Student: Summer!

Hand in the questionnaire to the students. They walk around asking questions to their classmates.

Then graph the results on the board.

               Review the preposition used for Seasons.

A worksheet! Well, actually three. Hand in the first two worksheets to the students. Dictate how to color each letter of the Seasons Words.

Teacher: Color letter “e ”green. Which seasons has an “e ”?

Students: Summer! Winter!

Continue with all the other letters, it is an alphabet review and students will notice the spelling of the words.

Dictate how to color all the months of the year to practice listening.

Teacher: Color December pink.

When students finish coloring, they cut and paste the months in each Season box.

Students go their notebooks and pair each Season box to a picture.

And to finish the sorting, a worksheet to answer.

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Birthday Unit Resources for Elementary ELL

  LINK to the Birthday unit resource that can be used with first graders: 

https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Birthday-Theme-Resources-for-Elementary-ELL-2101105

There is more for the Birthday unit here:

https://eflelementaryresources.blogspot.com/2020/02/birthday-unit-for-esl.html

Birthday Flashcards. Flashcards are still effective tools for the class. Plan motivating games with the theme for independent learning or for groups.

Place the flashcards on the board. Point to the cake.

Teacher: Cake. It’s a cake.

Birthday has Flashcards. A set of boys and girls going to a party with a gift and party hat or balloons. Place them on the board and write any set of numbers that you want to review. I choose from the 20’s to the 40.Ask as many questions as you can.

Teacher: What does number 21 have?

Students: He has a hat.

Teacher: What color is the hat?

Students: It is red, purple and yellow. 

Birthday Vocabulary Spelling.

Use the cupcake letter tiles to build the theme´s vocabulary words and review the ones from previous units. Each student of group of students can have a set of letters.

·       Children can line up the tiles in alphabetical order. Make it a contest.

·       Place the flashcards in a visible place and have students build the words.

·       Have children build new words in an allotted time. See which group has built the more correct words.

Birthday Cupcake small book.

Creating their own books will develop a positive attitude towards reading. In the doing, it will involve that children will be motivated as they will own a book that they will be able to read at home. It will enhance their narrative skill by telling the story to their parents.

Birthday cutouts for introducing prepositions.

Print and cutout the birthday cutouts to introduce prepositions. Place the table cutout in the middle of the board.

Teacher: What is this?

Students: It’s a cupcake.

Teacher: Where is the cupcake?

Students: It’s on the table.

Continue asking questions using all the prepositions.

Birthday cake and Numbers tracing cards.

For the lower elementary students, these tracing cards are good for reviewing. 

Birthday cake and Numbers tracing cards.

For the lower elementary students, these tracing cards are good for reviewing.

 Birthday Worksheets.

Worksheet 1. Students read and color the balloons. The worksheet can be turned into a notebook activity. Have the students glue the sentence next to each balloon.

Worksheet 2. Students read and color the boys and girls. Then they have to cut out each person and glue them next to the correct paragraph on their notebook.

Worksheet 3. I couldn’t help it when I saw these Party Animals clip art and created this worksheet that can be done in several steps or in different ways.

First, have the students color the animals as you dictate them to practice listening. It also helps to keep the pace as students have to color on the time that you give them such as a minute for each animal.  Teacher: Color the giraffe orange!

There is the cake that students color as in the paragraph that you hand in. It can be done as a diorama. Students read the paragraph and place the animals where it corresponds. I placed an opened clip behind each item. Students can take turns reading each sentence and another student has to place the animal.

It can also be done as a poster . I glued everything as in the paragraph.

or a notebook activity.

Birthday Pocket Charts.5 words and colors to make pocket charts of use them on the desk to make phrases.

There is a BUNDLE resource for the Birthday Unit. LINK: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Birthday-Unit-for-Kindergarten-and-Elementary-ESL-BUNDLE-5652069

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