Garden Unit Flashcards for the Kindergarten English Language Learner

 Happy to post about the Garden Unit resource or Nature as some teachers name this unit. Another title would be look outside. Students will identify things that grow and understand  the features of nature, of the natural world.

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

This blog post will be on how to use the flashcards in class. It is a good aaid for the memorizing the new words.

Garden or Nature Flashcards are for the visual presentation of the new vocabulary. It motivates all the students with Visual Intelligence. Focus your instruction on the student’s needs, on their interest, on what you know will make him/her engaged. The flashcards will focus on tree, flower,grass,bench,seed,roots,leaf,log,plant.

Use the flashcards to ask questions.
Place your flashcards on the board and ask questions.

Teacher: What’s this ?

Students: It’s a flower.

Teacher: What color is the flower?

Students: It’s white and yellow.

Activity with the flashcards. Place the flashcards all over the classroom and have the students find the flashcard that you name.

Teacher: I can see a red flower!

Students run to find it.

Teacher: How many flowers are there in the classroom?

Students:ten flowers!

There are flashcards for the plural. What are these?

Teacher: What are these ?

Students: They’re flowers.

Teacher: What color are the flowers?

Students: They’re yellow.

Activity with the flashcards. Play pass it and say it fast! Hand in one plural flashcard to a student. That student says the word and pass it fast to the student next to him or her.

Student 1: logs!

Student 2: logs!

Be sure to pass another plural flashcard to student 1 to keep the game going.

Actions or commands flashcards. Mime the action as a model and have the students repeat.

Place the color flashcards on the board and have the students come to the front to sort the flowers, trees and leaves flashcards.

Review and sort the Emotions Flashcards. Then, have the students name each garden flashcard.
Students: a happy flower!

Do the same sorting but with shapes.
Teacher: How many flowers do you see?
Students: four!

Ask “have” questions.
Teacher: This is Alex. What does he have?
Students: a flower! A hose!

Saw this idea of the slow reveal.  I placed my example flashcard into a clear plastic sheet and covered it with opaque white paper. It was easy to slowly slide the paper to reveal some of the flashcard as the students would try to guess the word.

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Another idea with any flashcard. Place the flashcard into a plastic sheet like this one or any that you have. With a whiteboard marker, have the students trace the words and the picture as they name each one.

Use this flashcard to introduce tall and short.
Teacher: It’s a tall tree, it’s a short tree.

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