Emotions or Feelings Theme Flashcards for Kindergarten ELL

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Teaching emotions in English is essential for helping young learners express themselves, connect with others, and build communication skills.

This Emotions Theme for Kindergarten ELLs provides engaging activities that help students learn vocabulary such as happy, sad, angry, and scared through visuals, games, and hands-on practice.

The Emotions flashcards are great to make your students to be aware of their feelings and their classmates in English.

Emotions Flashcards Hunt

Place the emotions flashcards all around the classroom. Tell students to put their hands behind their back. Shout out an emotions phrase. 

Teacher: The girl is angry. 

The students have to look around and race to touch that flashcard.  The first one to touch it wins a point. The winner is the one with the most points.

Facial Expression Practice with a dice

I made a big dice for the flashcards. I finally saw the perfect box at the supermarket. I wrapped it up with some recycled paper, added the clear plastic sheets to introduce the flashcards. You can use the dice with any other unit.

Roll & Show the Emotion! 😊

Turn emotions into an exciting movement game! Students stand in a circle while one child rolls the dice. When the dice lands on an emotion, everyone looks, identifies it, and quickly makes that face. It’s a fun and interactive way to reinforce vocabulary, build confidence, and encourage full participation. Perfect for young learners who learn best through play and expression!

School Supplies and the Emotions

I love to recycle the old vocabulary into the new unit. It provides deep learning as we make students connect prior knowledge(school supplies) and the new knowledge (emotions).

Here is a set of crayons that have an emotion on the face to review.

Teacher: What is this?

Students: a crayon!

Teacher: Is the crayon angry?

Students: YES!

 Sorting School Items by Emotions

Invite your students to sort the school item flashcards into the correct emotion categories on the board. As they place each flashcard under happy, sad, or angry, encourage them to describe the emotion using complete sentences, such as "The glue is happy." or "The book is sad." This engaging activity helps children expand their emotions vocabulary while developing their classification and critical thinking skills.

 the Emotions Flashcards in Spanish

A set of Spanish Emotions flashcards for the dual language teachers.

 Introduce the commands using the flashcards.

Teacher: Make a happy face!

Emotions Small cards

 I am adding the same face flashcards in 4 in one page cards for printing purpose and for online teaching.  

     

Use the letter stencils! I found mine buried inside a box. I used it for having students write the words based on the small cards.                                          

Take a look!

There is also a set of the emotions small cards with school supplies. 

Sorting Small Cards by Emotions

Students will sort the cards by emotions, placing each one into the correct group: happy, sad, or angry. This hands-on activity reinforces emotions vocabulary while helping children develop classification, observation, and critical thinking skills.

Sort the emotions small cards by school supply. Have the stusents say what they are sorting: a happy schoolbag, a sad schoolbag, an angry schoolbag.

Take a look at the video on how to use these small cards:

Emotions Unit Cutouts 

Use these to review the emotions. Place them on top of your own face. The cutouts are also helpful for online teaching.

Ask questions:

Teacher: Look! Is she happy?

Students: Yes! / No

And more sorting by emotions using the cutouts! 

Students will sort the school item cutouts into the correct emotion categories: happy, sad, and angry. This simple hands-on activity reinforces emotions vocabulary while giving children extra practice with visual discrimination, categorizing skills, and speaking as they explain why each school item belongs in a particular emotion group. It is a fun and engaging way to develop language and critical thinking at the same time.

Students work together to sort the cutouts by emotions, matching each picture to the correct face. This hands-on activity encourages speaking, as children name the emotions.

Many teachers love to have a reward program during the school year. Here is one for this Emotions unit.    https://eflpreschoolteachers.blogspot.com/2020/10/emotions-theme-for-kindergarten_4.html

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