Birthday Unit Small cards for ELL

 Link to the Resource for the Birthday unit and understanding age. Use it Kindergarten English Language Learners (Ingilizce okul).     https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Birthday-Unit-for-Kindergarten-Holistic-English-Series-14-6655450

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Birthday Unit Small cards. They have the perfect size for online teaching or small groups teaching at school. Use them for presentation  or to reinforce the new Birthday vocabulary.

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 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 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 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.

Use the birthday candles small cards. 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.

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

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Check the blog post for the printable booklet:   https://eflpreschoolteachers.blogspot.com/2021/03/birthday-unit.html

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