Birthday Unit Small cards for ELL

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ESL Birthday Small Cards for Kindergarten: Vocabulary & Games, video!

These birthday small cards for ELLs are perfect for hands-on learning, helping young learners practice vocabulary through games, matching activities, and speaking tasks.

In this post, you’ll discover how to use small cards to reinforce birthday vocabulary in a fun and interactive way for preschool and kindergarten students.

Sorting the small cards: boy/girl. Food/things/ colors/ numbers. 

Sorting is a skill to develop in the early years, to sort the alike and the different. Expose the children to sorting using these small cards if you are in the classroom. It can be done on a small board or on a desk. The words and words combinations learned will be used for communication for this activity.

Sort the small cards into food and things.  

Ask questions as you mime eat.
Teacher: What's this ?
Students: It's an ice cream.
Teacher: Can I eat the ice cream? Mime that you eat. If they say YES, place it under the food section.
Do the same with the things small cards.

Sort the small cards into boys and girls. 

Hand in the flashcards to severla students. As they know the words boys and girls, at your signal have them place the small cards in the corresponding section.

Sort the small cards into colors. 

Make a splotch of color under each section. Hand in the small cards. There are cakes, balloons, candles, presents. At your signal tell the students that they have to go find a partner with the same color, not the same object, and stand together. Then, call on a color and have those students come and place the small cards under the corresponding color.

Teacher: Red!

This activity goes with the competence in Math as in reasoning to sort  the cakes and candles into numbers. Do the same with the numbers.

🎨 Easy Games Using Small Cards

Real birthday candles matching activities

Place the small cards and several real candles and have the students match the number. You can do the same activity using the paper cutouts candles.

Match pictures and words

The small cards can be cut into pictures and words for playing a matching game.

Birthday + Face Vocabulary Together blog post, here: 

https://eflpreschoolteachers.blogspot.com/2024/06/birthday-unit-and-face-for-kindergarten.html

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