Birthday Unit Cutouts for Kindergarten ELL

 Link to -Birthday Unit Cutouts for Kindergarten ESL | Activities, Games & Prepositions for ELLs- for teaching Early Childhood Education ECE:   https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Birthday-Unit-for-Kindergarten-Holistic-English-Series-14-6655450

These birthday unit cutouts are perfect for hands-on learning, helping young learners practice vocabulary, follow directions, and build speaking skills through movement and play.

In this post, you’ll discover engaging ways to use cutouts to teach birthday vocabulary, prepositions, and numbers in a meaningful and memorable way.

Use the Birthday Unit cutouts as props to teach English online or in a classroom setting. It’s a just print, cut and go.

Birthday unit vocabulary Read and match activity

 Students will work on the listening skill of following directions. Write the birthday words on a big cardboard. Have the students match the cutouts to each word. Say the word and the student will pick the cutout and match it.

Birthday unit Prepositions of place activity 

Use them to teach or review prepositions.Start with the easy ones.

Teacher: Put the cake on the table.

Continue with more complex prepositions if your class is ready for it.  It can be under, next to.

Balloon Game Activity

Blow up some balloons and add a cutout to each one using masking tape. Write with sticky notes the words corresponding to each balloon. At your signal, the students grab a balloon and place it next to the corresponding word.Ask questions:

How many balloons can you see?

Students: five!

 Counting Activity with Cakes and Candles

Print all the mats 1 to 10. Use real candles or the cutouts to match the number for each cake. Have the students identify the number and place the candles.

Students: Six! Six candles. One, two, three, four, five six.

It is fun for the students to use real candles on the cakes.

A set of candles cutouts can be used for the same mats and to play many other games.

Cooperative Learning Activity

Review the numbers 1 to 10.Here is the set of number words for the students that are ready match the words to the quantities.

Birthday unit Number candle cutouts.

 use the cutouts to have the students match real candles to the number.

Pointer Craft Activity

Make with your students these pointers. Just print, cut and paste. Add some plastic gems or any other thing.

Teacher: Point to the balloon!

There you go, student motivation.

 ESL hOLIDAYS & BIRTHDAY Wrap-Up Activities for Kids, blog post here:   https://eflpreschoolteachers.blogspot.com/2021/03/birthday-unit-wrap-up-for-kindergarten.html

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