Turkey and Color Crayons for Thanksgiving teaching ELLs

 This resource is included in the School Theme for Kindergarten-Holistic English Resources #3. You can find it here: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/School-Unit-for-Kindergarten-Holistic-English-Series-3-5977653

The turkeys are festive linking to Thanksgiving, making the activity memorable and enjoyable. The color-focused activities help young learners expand their color vocabulary.

Flashcards appeal to visual learners by associating each color word with a turkey holding a crayon.

Hide flashcards around the room and let students find them. When they find a turkey, they call out the color of its crayon, reinforcing color recognition and making the activity a fun treasure hunt.

Show a turkey small card, and have students call out the color of the crayon the turkey is holding. Then, have them look in their pencil case for a crayon in the same color.

Worksheets reinforces the understanding through hands-on engagement. Give your students repeated exposure to color words.

Pocket charts matching cards. The turkeys holding crayons provide a fun visual connection to each color, making it easier for ELL students to identify and remember words through association.

The Board game provides a fun, low-pressure environment where students can practice color vocabulary, helping them learn through enjoyable interactions. Students will name the color on the crayon that each turkey holds in order to move along the path.

A domino!

Print and create a group book. After students color each page, practice reading together as a class, emphasizing the sentence structure “I can see a ___ crayon.” This reinforces sight words and sentence patterns while associating colors with the vocabulary.

Pair students up and have them read their completed books to each other, practicing fluency and helping each other recognize color words.

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Halloween Sharks for Kindergarten ESL

 This resource is included in the Sea unit for K-2 English Language Learners at this link: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Sea-Unit-for-Kindergarten-Holistic-English-Series-29-8348964

Using sharks dressed up for Halloween adds an element of fun and excitement that grabs young learners’ attention, making lessons more engaging and motivating.

Introduce new vocabulary related to Halloween using the sharks. Flashcards with the Halloween-themed sharks help students visually connect words with images. Cut the flashcards into 2, 4 or 6 pieces and have the stduents put all the puzzles together. There 7 sharks.

Colorful visuals of sharks in costumes help ELLs make associations between words and images. Use the ghost reader to help your stduents say what shark is there on the small cards and to read the word on it. Assemble the reader by adding a craft stick.

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Teachers can adapt the activities to suit varying language proficiency levels, ensuring that all learners are engaged at their pace. There is a board game with all the sharks.

Using Halloween sharks ties in with the holiday theme. This is a worksheet that can be transformed into a matching activity.

 Another worksheet where the students will dress up the shark into a Halloween character.

Use the pocket chart cards to appeal to both visual and kinesthetic learners.

Teachers can use the pocket chart to help students build simple sentences, such as "It’ a witch.", giving learners a fun way to practice grammar and vocabulary.

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Counting the windows in a hospital for Kindergarten ESL

 This resource is included in the Town or Community unit for Kindergarten.

LINK: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Town-Unit-for-Kindergarten-Holistic-English-Series-21-7419688

This resource helps students practice counting skills while also reinforcing English vocabulary related to the hospitals in town. This dual-purpose approach enhances learning in both subjects. Counting windows on a hospital encourages visual engagement.

 

Counting from 1 to 10 is important for kindergarten English Language Learners (ELLs) to lay the groundwork for basic math concepts. Print the flashcards to help children review numbers, quantities, and the relationship between them, which is essential for future math learning. Encourage the use of language structures. Have the students say full sentences and writing the numeral next to each flashcard: There are ten windows!

Reinforce the concept of numerical order, helping students grasp that numbers follow a specific sequence by placing the flashcards in order on the board.

Use the flashcards for counting as it helps ELLs expand their vocabulary by associating numbers with the windows in the hospital. It also encourages the use of language structures, like saying full sentences (e.g., “There are six windows in the hospital”).

Use the worksheets for counting to enhance your students’ memory, concentration, and problem-solving skills. Dictate the colors for the windows related to each number: There are five red windows!

After everything is colored, students will cut the numerals and the words to match each hospital.

Another worksheet to review the colors.

Achieving the skill of counting is an accomplishment for young learners, boosting their confidence. Have them use the counting mat to match the windows to the hospital on the mat.

Another game to wrap up the lesson as students match all the cards. The task is interactive and involves physically organizing the cards, which suits Kindergarteners' need for movement and hands-on learning.

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Farm Unit Goats

 This resource is part of the farm Unit. You can check it out here and leave a review: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Farm-Animals-Unit-for-Kindergarten-Holistic-English-Series-25-7973567

Goats, are familiar and interesting to young learners. This resource incorporates visuals, to support language comprehension through physical interaction.

Flashcards offer a clear, simple image of a goat in 11 different colors, giving visual support to young learners. Using flashcards can encourage students to speak in English by describing the farm animal: It’s a yellow goat. Use the puzzle piece to mark the color and then noun order.

Fold any of the farm flashcard. Add the binder clip to make it stand and open the door of the farm and play peek-a-boo. Place any goat behind the door and have the students peek and guess which goat is there: I can see a white goat!

Mix up the farm goat flashcards with other farm animal cards that are included in the farm unit resource. Here are the links to the blog posts:

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https://eflpreschoolteachers.blogspot.com/2023/09/farm-unit-chicken-for-ell.html

The small cards allow for movement-based activities, like this puzzle that you can create by cutting the cards vertically in 2 or3 pieces. This kind of activities promotes engagement and helps with memory retention.

Use the goat worksheets to practice early reading and writing skills. Tracing the sentences helps young ELLs develop their letter recognition and writing abilities.

Use the play Bingo worksheet for an easy game. Students will color the goats in any of 11 colors participating in the cards. Use them to call out the goats. When a student crosses out all the goats wins.

Pocket charts provide a flexible, hands-on way to display the written cards. Students will physically move pieces (pictures of the goats or words) into place to match picture to phrases or sentences.

Use the same cards from above and plan a pattern activity. It will allow students to repeatedly hear and use color names ("purple goat, pink goat, brown goat, white goat"), reinforcing language acquisition in a fun and interactive way.

Puzzles help students develop problem-solving skills by figuring out how the color and goat pieces fit together.

The goats finger puppets provide a way to incorporate several speaking activities to reinforce vocabulary.

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Counting Halloween Cats in the Haunted House

 This resource is included in the Pets Unit for Kindergarten ESL at this LINK https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Pets-Unit-for-Kindergarten-Holistic-English-Series-16-6837926

This Halloween-themed resource focuses on counting 1 to 10 cats in a Haunted House. It allows students to practice numbers in a new contextual setting. It introduces Halloween vocabulary such as "cats," and "haunted house".

Have the students count the cats in each Haunted House flashcard as a way to help develop foundational math skills. Finding and counting the cats in the haunted house setting encourages observation finding the cats.

There are flashcards with images of cats in a haunted house and the numeral on a tombstone to visually associate the numbers. Use a pointer to count the cats in the house: How many cats are there?

Students: one, two, three, four, five, six! Six cats.

Have the students trace the numeral on each tombstone.

The small cards work for repetition of the Halloween-related words like "cat" and "haunted house" during the activity. Students will match the cats in each house to the numeral.  Start a speaking activity to verbally count the cats.

Students can work at their own pace ordering the numbers on the small cards to practice number sequencing skills.

The worksheets set provides a clear format for students to follow through the counting process. For fun, have the students paint the numbers using Qtips and watercolors.

The task is to match the number of cats in the house to the correct numeral. Perfect to strengthen number recognition.

 There are the number words to cut and match to each house.

In another way to use the worksheets is to have the students order the numeral, the word and the house with cats on a pocket chart, done individually or in small groups.

Students must solve the puzzle by identifying the correct number of cats as they match numbers on the tombstone. Encourage your students to work together, practice speaking, and reinforce language skills through social interaction.

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