Insects Unit Games for Teaching Kindergarten ELL

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These Insects Games for Kindergarten ESL are part of a complete insects unit, designed to help students move from learning vocabulary to using it through speaking, interaction, and play. After learning vocabulary with flashcards and practicing with small cards and cutouts, students are ready for the most important stage—active language use. Games allow students to Speak and interact.

Here are several games that you can plan at least for each class that you have with your students to reinforce the vocabulary and the grammar structures taught. Games work well with mixed ability classes.

      Insects Unit Puzzles 

Increase vocabulary as the students play with the easy puzzles, ask them about the shape of the puzzle. It will increase the command of the language.

Teacher: Look! What shape is it ?

Students: a circle!

As students finish their puzzle they name the insect. Students: It’s a ladybug!

DOMINO GAME – PATTERNS + LANGUAGE

       Insects Unit Dominoes are patterns to be discovered by your students. The core vocabulary was covered within the unit.

BINGO – LISTENING + SPEAKING

       Insects Unit Bingo for listening and speaking as a student can be a caller and the class has to listen to each word or phrase and look it up on their card and repeat the phrase. The student's board comes in B/W for them to color in any of colors of the teacher's calling cards that you select. Cut all your cards, put them in a bag and start playing. You can pull out this game over and over again atany other lesson that might need a fun game to play.

FILE FOLDER GAMES – FLEXIBLE PRACTICE

     The file folder game is another practicing tool. It is usually matching and it can be done individually or in a group. Use the fly swatter for fun.

Teacher: What can you see?

Students: I can see a butterfly!

This other file folder game is more matching with phrases and adapt it according to the age of your students.

BOARD GAME – SPEAKING IN ACTION

·      A simple Insects game board helps students interact in a friendly way as they identify the animals and do a little counting developing the hand-eye coordination.

HALF-CARD GAME

    Insects Half-Card games are fun and engaging keeping students focused. Hand in one half to each student and have them walk around finding a student with and another half to complete the insect.

POCKET CHART – VISUAL SENTENCE BUILDING

·       Insects Unit Pocket charts are simple visual aids for the students to match the vocabulary words and pictures.

Insects Numbers matching cards

 Review the first ten numerals with their sound.

Here is an example with the butterflies.

Insects Dice game 

 Print the dice on cardboard and assemble. Print the Insects scene and the insects cards. Students will throw the dice and place the insects where they see on the dice and say a sentence: The bee is on the branch.

Color to Insects Matching games 

Thi is a  matching game to review colors to insects. It can be as a file folder game game.

There are several Insects game mats to choose from.Offer choices to your students to give them a sense of ownership in the class.

Number words and quantities Insects Matching games 

It can be a card matching game. Print the number, the words and the ladybugs quantities.

 Shapes on Insects File folder games 

 

Recycle the language for the shapes. This is a file folder game that I made using a manila envelope, I cut it open and glued the templates.

 

Insects unit prepositions ESL kindergarten grammar activities blog post:   https://eflpreschoolteachers.blogspot.com/2024/04/fireflies-prepositions.html

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