Garden Unit Games and more for Kindergarten English Language Acquisition

These Garden Games transform your lessons into interactive and engaging learning experiences. When combined with flashcards, small cards, cutouts, and worksheets, they become part of a complete ESL teaching system.🔗 Get the full Garden Unit here:

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These Garden Unit Games are part of a complete Garden or Nature Unit for Kindergarten English Language Learners, designed to help students use vocabulary through interaction, play, and communication.  This is the stage where students move from practicing words to actually using them in meaningful ways.

As children play all these games they will use the garden language as they improve their speaking and listening skills. Games are not just for fun—they are one of the most effective ways for young learners to practice language.

For the kinesthetic learner there are hands-on-elements such as cards, game board and many more.

Domino Game (Communication + Matching)

The Garden Unit Domino is a great game to practice sorting, matching and communication. Students can describe each tile that they position on the game.

Pocket Charts

Use these to engage students in developing literacy skills.

Puzzle to develop Concentration

Puzzles help with physical skills as they hold the pieces to match the word to the picture.

Game boards give students engaging practice of the just learned vocabulary. Students can name the word of the picture they landed on, or say a sentence or a phrase.

File Folder Game

 I glued the templates onto a file folder. I glued the label words onto clear plastic cups. Students procede to match.

A video on how to the game as a speaking activity.

Leaves Colors Interactive File Folder Game

Another fun file folder game with a worksheet—just a little twist! Students first color the leaf worksheet, then cut out the leaf cards and use them to complete the interactive file folder game. The teacher can easily create the game by gluing the tree template onto a manila file folder.

As students match each colored leaf to the correct outline on the tree, they practice color vocabulary by saying the complete phrase aloud, such as "a red leaf," "a blue leaf," or "a green leaf." This simple hands-on activity provides meaningful repetition while helping children review colors, build vocabulary, and strengthen speaking skills.

This easy-to-prepare file folder game is perfect for literacy centers, small-group instruction, early finishers, or independent practice, making color review engaging and interactive for young English learners.

Take a look on how to make it a speaking and a listening activity.

Half card game

 By playing this matching game students will improve their concentration as they they work on the Garden Unit vocabulary. Print the templates and cut them in half and start matching, either on a desk, on a file folder or standing up looking up for a partner that has the other half.

Number Matching Game

 These kind of games help learning to count in English at the same time as EFL students can identify the numbers and recognize quantities.

Another Game with Numbers. Students have to match each number with thesmall cutouts and say what they did.

Students: one! One apple. One apple on the tree.

Bingo! 

Give each students the template. Place all the calling cards at the board. Explain that these are the colors playing, that the trees can only be colored, brown and yellow, brown and red, brown and green or brown and orange. Place all the calling cards in a bag and start calling!

Emotions mat

 Review the emotions using these mats. Students just draw the mouth that describes the emotion. I placed mine into a clear plastic sheet and used a whiteboard marker to be erased easily.

 Garden Unit printable book to make emphasis in the left to right reading progression in English. 

 There is a colored printable booklet and another one to color. Each student can have their own booklet to take home to read with the parents. The focus is on the vocabulary and grammar structures that are most common for English Language Learners.To make reading fun I added printable glasses.

 Garden Unit printable reward

Wrap up the unit with a reward that students can help create to keep them motivated. Add the chenille to each flower and hand it to eah student as you say why you are giving the resward.Be specific, such as: Tom, you have spoken more in English during this unit! Good job.

Holidays: Mother's Day Gift Tags.

This Mother’s Day gift tag craft is an activity that connects the Garden Unit theme with a real-life celebration. By coloring flowers on the gift tags, students practice garden-related vocabulary (like flower, stem, leaf, and color names) in a hands-on and engaging way.

This craft is a wonderful addition to any gift. 

Christmas Literacy Activities

All the students love color by number. Here are six different Christmas trees worksheets to hand in randomly to your students.

After all the worksheets are finished,students can cut the Christmas trees. I glued a craft stick behind each one and made a Christmas Tree park.

Discover More Christmas Literacy Resources!

Looking for more festive ways to build reading and language skills? Explore my collection of printable Christmas literacy activities for ELL, engaging Christmas literacy worksheets, and hands-on ideas for your December literacy center Kindergarten lessons. You'll find fun, low-prep resources that help young learners practice vocabulary, reading, writing, and speaking while celebrating the holiday season.

LINK: https://eflpreschoolteachers.blogspot.com/2021/05/pets-unit-crafts-and-rewards-for.html

These small cards are not just a review tool.They help students prepare for games and speaking activities, go to the blog post:   https://eflpreschoolteachers.blogspot.com/2021/06/garden-unit-small-cards-for.html

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