Garden Unit Cutouts for Kindergarten ESL

 Click to the Link to the complete resource Garden or Nature Unit for Kindergarten English language Learners:   https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Garden-Unit-for-Kindergarten-Holistic-English-Series-17-6914668

This blog post will be on how to use the cutouts to review the Garden vocabulary.Use the cutouts to help the students express the vocabulary actively. Play different games with them as they learn. They are small enough to hold in their hands. Also have your students observe living things in a garden.

I painted an egg carton and opened some holes onto it. I also taped a green straw on some flowers and clear ones onto others.

 Cut the straws to make them easier to manipulate.

I did several activities listening activities for the auditory learning style students, such as: show me or point to!

Teacher: Point to the pink flower.

Play Plant the flower. Tell the students that you will give the instruction to plant a flower.
Teacher: Jim, plant the orange flower!

Use the command flashcard to help out with the instruction.

There is also a template with small color cards. I had students match each color to each flower and say a phrase: a purple flower.

Take a look!

Review previous unit: fruit and vegetables.

Place the ground cutout and the tree cutouts and ask questions.
Teacher: Where do carrots grow?
Students: on the ground. (Place the cutout)
Continue with all the ground vegetables, then for the tomatoes and the tree for the fruit.

Sort the cutouts onto plastic plates. Write the word onto each plate using a whiteboard marker. (leaf, flower, plant)

Create a scene on the board! Ask questions.
Teacher: Where is the frog?
Students: It’s on the grass.

Gather all the cutouts and make a garden scene. This kind of scene has the objective to develop visual discrimination to identify different objects and their size that are together in a scene. It is easy to put together using a styrofoam base covered in green paper. I added a craft stick or barbecue stick behind each cutout to punch into the styrofoam.

Ask questions to the students about the colors of the garden items, the position of the animals,etc.

Cutouts and colors. Use the color words with the leaves or the flowers to label them.

Some sunflowers with numbers to review them and also to make a number sequence and if you print them double it can be a memory game.

Make a watering can as prop!I recycled a laundry detergent bottle. Just glued the prop.
You can say: Water the red flower. Water the tree!

Do you have so many CDs at home? Well, recycle them by adding a picture of a flower. I added my flowers that are in this resource. The flowers can be handy to review colors.

Teacher: What color is this flower?

Students: yellow!

Go to the Counting leaves on the trees resource that is included in this Garden Unit.

https://eflpreschoolteachers.blogspot.com/2024/05/counting-leaves-for-kindergarten-ell.html

Do you like to use flashcards? Check the blog post for the ones that I have for the Garden Unit.    https://eflpreschoolteachers.blogspot.com/2021/06/garden-unit-for-kindergarten-english.html

 This resource is part of the BUNDLE for teaching Kindergarten English language Learners:   https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Kindergarten-English-Language-Teaching-Units-BUNDLE-7390586