Insects Cutouts for teaching Kindergarten EFL

 These cutouts are part of a complete system that helps students learn and use vocabulary effectively. Turn your lesson into a complete ESL learning experience, here:    https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Insects-Unit-for-Kindergarten-Holistic-English-Series-18-6984205

These Insects Cutouts for Kindergarten ESL are part of a complete insects unit, designed to help students move from practicing vocabulary to actively using it through speaking and interaction. After learning vocabulary with flashcards and practicing with small cards, students are ready for the most important stage—using the language.This is the stage where students start speaking and using vocabulary naturally.

WHY CUTOUTS ARE SO POWERFUL

Insects Unit cutouts activities for the linguistic competence. The cutouts gives a chance to go deeper into the unit using different materials. Pictures help with understanding.

Play guess what’s in the jar?

 Print the jar template and glue it onto a lunch bag. 
Teacher: What’s in the jar?
Students: a butterfly!
Teacher: Yes! That’s right.

VIDEO: The jar is fun for questions and answers (real language use)

Make patterns with the cutouts

     These are important for the students to be able to describe them in a speaking mode, to reproduce them using the cutouts and to create a new pattern they wish.It's a way to experiment patterns in a new way. They will be able to follow a pattern that you say as well.

Students: big bee, small bee, big butterfly, small butterfly.

The patterns video:

Take a look on how I used the cutouts for big or small.

      Cutouts for -same and different-

Place several cutouts in a row. The first row will have the same insects. Point and have the students repeat with you.

Teacher:ant, ant, ant. They are the same!

The second row place a different cutout.

Teacher:bee, bee, dragonfly. Which one is different?

Students: dragonfly!

Cutouts for describing the body parts of an insect

      Place the insects cutouts on the board. Tell the students that all the insects have 6 legs and that you are going to count them together. Circle the legs afterwards.

      Where are the insects activities?

Use the flashcards to place the cutouts as to where you can find the insects. Here is a small chart that I made up as a guide.

Identify the location of an insect 

Use and model the word on. Place the cutouts on the flashcard to show where the insects can be found.

Teacher: The bee is on the leaf

Students: The butterfly is on the leaf.

Teacher: Where are the grasshoppers?

Students: They are on the grass.

Take a look!

Do more preposition work with the fireflies jars. Go to the blog post and see it: https://eflpreschoolteachers.blogspot.com/2024/04/fireflies-prepositions.html 

It is also included in this resource.

How many insects?

Do the same using the cutouts instead of the flashcards. Have the students describe the quantity using the numbers.

Students: There are five insects on the plant.

    Use the numbers flashcards for counting insects cuouts!

Teacher: How many insects are there?
Students: three!

Counting insects activity kindergarten ESL.Take a look!

       Just for fun make pencil toppers 

Just add a chenille to the cutouts and twist the chenille around the pencil. This would be the craft for this unit.

 make a beehive for colors review 

   Another idea is to make a beehive using toilet paper tubes inside a tissue box. Have the students match each bee to each space in the beehive.
Students: a red bee in the beehive.

       Sorting into jars! 

Print the jars and labels that you want to practice.

Sort by shapes.

Sort by type of insect.

Sort by color.

Sort by quantity.

  Sort by shapes of the insects 

·       I saw this idea and gave it a try, I have so many old CDs to recycle.

I covered each CD with construction paper and added a shape label to each one. I glued all the shapes insets to clothespin and had the students sort them out.

 Writing Insects Name 

I used fun foam letters to have the students write words along each cutout.

  What do insects eat?

Use the flashcards to direct what the insects eat.
Teacher: This is a butterfly. What does it eat?
Students: a flower!

WHY TEACHERS LOVE THIS

✔ Highly interactive
✔ Encourages speaking
✔ Easy to prepare
✔ Perfect for young learners

Check the complete insects unit ESL games kindergarten vocabulary resource, right here: 

https://eflpreschoolteachers.blogspot.com/2021/07/insects-unit-games-for-teaching.html

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