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

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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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Birthday Unit Worksheets- part 3

Almost done with the birthday unit. I had some worksheets from previous years and made extra ones. I added them them to the same product from the previous blog post about the Birthday Unit Vocabulary. 

LINK: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Birthday-Unit-for-ESL-5279726

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Worksheet 1. A simple worksheet to review a basic grammar point. Then, students cut the pictures and sentence and write more sentences on their notebooks.

Worksheet 2. This is a reading and coloring the picture worksheet.

I used a finger eye to read. I don’t remember where I got them. Watch the video.

Worksheet 3. Instead of color by number , it is a color by word. After the worksheet is done the children cut it up and have the student next to him/her glue the puzzle worksheet on the notebook.

Worksheet 4. This worksheet is useful for lower level students.

When the students have to do a matching word to picture I ask them to use a different color for each word.

For the numbered cupcakes, dictate  the color for each one.

Teacher:  Cupcake number one is red.

Worksheet 5. Dictate the color of each cake. When you do this it helps with listening.

Teacher:  Cake number one is purple.

Have the students color the number as you dictate.

Teacher:  Number one is blue.

Students cut and paste the numbers where they belong.

Once the worksheet is completed, make a mobile by hanging the cakes in the correct number sequence.

Worksheet 6. After the worksheet is colored, students can cut all the cakes and write a sentence describing each one on their notebooks.

Worksheet 7. Decorating a cupcake should be fun! Have the students add anything they want such as real sprinkles to decorate their personal cupcake.

Worksheet 8. I made two versions for this worksheet. It is an already colored worksheet that you can place into a clear plastic sheet and students can write using a dry erase marker.

                                   The other version is a normal worksheet.

Worksheet 9. Another read and color worksheet. Thinking that the cake can be turned into a puppet for reading.

Worksheet 10 and 11. I included easier to complete worksheets for the lower level students that you might have.

Worksheet 12. For more advanced students this worksheet is great. After the worksheet is done, cut it all and make a match game.

Worksheet 13. After the students complete the worksheets do a little listening as you dictate the colors of all the vocabulary words. 

Teacher: Color the lemonade yellow.

Have the students cut the sentences and pictures and glue on their notebooks as they match them.

Worksheet 14. The questionnaire. Have the students walk around asking questions to their classmates and completing the questionnaire. Students can write the results on their notebooks.

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Birthday Unit for ESL-part 2

All the resources from part 1 and this part 2 will be here:

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More resources for the Birthday Unit.

Matching mat. I saw this idea on Pinterest and gave it a try. I liked it. It is a mat with all the vocabulary words and another one with the pictures. 

Place each mat into a clear plastic sheet. Do it any way you like. I placed the words in the plastic sheet and cut all the pictures to be placed on each word.

I thought that many things can be created using the pictures and words from the mat printable.

You can use as a matching game or Memory game.

I saw this idea on Instagram and grabbed my egg holder. Glue each card onto a craft stick. Cut a slit on each egg portion. Place all the picture cards and have the students look for the word craft stick and insert it next to the picture to match them.

Introduce the functional language  to give and to recieve a Birthday party invitation.

Students should learn how to write a birthday invitation and a card. I made the template but students can go farther and create their own cards.

I see that many teachers are using small cards that be used as puppets. If you cut the words out of the cards you can play a matching game.

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Birthday Unit for ESL

        Birthday Unit Resource for Elementary English Language Learners

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Let’s start by introducing: Happy Birthday! And the response: Thank You. Have the students sit in a circle and  say Happy Birthday ! to the student next to him/her and that student responds Thank you and does the same to the one next to him/her.

I made  the  ‘s wand  out of fun foam using the template in this product and glued it onto a thick craft stick. Use it to introduce: It’s Ann’s birthday.

Birthday Vocabulary Flashcards. Great for introducing the new party vocabulary and food .

Activity 1. Write the three words on the board: food, drinks and things. Have the students look through the flashcards and sort them out and place them where they belong.

Teacher:  name the flashcards under things.

Students: flower, candle, balloon, hat, present, lollipop.

Activity 2. Play the birthday game. Place 10 flashcards on the board and assign a number for each one. You can use the ten numbers as well. Say something about the flashcard and have the students say which one it is.

Teacher:  It’s round. You can eat it. It has pepperoni. It is big.

Students: Pizza!

Teacher:  What number is the pizza?

Students: Number 2!

Teacher:  What is number 1?

Students: It is a gift!

Teacher:  What color is the gift?

Students: It is pink and blue! 

For extra practice students can write sentence with a white board marker on the flashcards placed inside a clear plastic sheet.

Introduce the plurals of the nouns using the S,es,ies puppet. I made mine out of fun foam. You can make a puppet for each case and use it for any unit. 

Use the puppets and the flashcards to explain each plural case.

Teacher:  What is it?

Students: It is a hot dog!

Contrast!

Teacher:  What are they?

Students: They are hot dogs!

              Plurals lead to counting Birthday objects and food.

Teacher:  What are these?

Students: They are cookies!

Teacher:  How many cookies are there?

Students: There are six!

Have the students use the adjective noun word order: six brown cookies

And introduce the uncountable nouns using the flashcards. I would place the drinks which are usually uncountable unless in comes in a glass of juice, for example. I did those flashcards as well.

Finally, brainstorm Birthday party nouns with your students. Place the Birthday party flashcard on the board and make a mind map by asking them what should be at the party. Write down the words that you don’t have a flashcard for it. Then students can create their own mind map on their notebooks.

Teacher:  There are streamers.

Students: There are invitations.

Teacher:  There is a cake.

Ask students:

Teacher:  Peter, What do you want?

Peter: a cupcake.

Take the cupcake from the board and give it to Peter. Continue with more examples.

And done with the nouns, let’s move on to the verbs. Children do things at the party. Here are the flashcards.

Teacher:  Point to a flashcard. What is he doing?

Students: He is taking a picture.

Continue with more.

Use the verb flashcards for making collocations.Place the verb eat on the board and have the students find the flashcards to create the collocations.

Teacher: eat ice cream!

Student 1: eat corn dog !

                  

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