Weather Unit Flashcards for Teaching Kindergarten English Language Learners

Here is number 19, the Weather Unit for the Series Holistic for ESL Kindergarten Teaching Resources. Link: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Weather-Unit-for-Kindergarten-Holistic-English-Series-19-7255772

Flashcards can catch your student’s attention.This set includes Weather Words: sun, snowflake,snow,wind,cloud, hot, cold,rainy, snowy,sunny,cloudy,windy.

     Introduce the Weather Flashcards and have the students mime each weather flashcard. Students candescribe the elements of nature such as cold or hot by miming the weather.

Teacher: It’s hot. (wipe your forehead as in a hot weather) Students can repeat the action and say the phrase.

Continue with the cold flashcard as you imitate shivering. Rain (the snowflake is similar) can be wiggling the fingers on top their heads. Sun is putting your hands on your brows as you can’t see. Wind is blowing and making the wind noise. Lightning is a stuck pose. The rainbow and the cloud can be done by drawing with their finger the symbol.

Introduce the weather with the sunny, rainy,snowy,windy flashcards.

Ask: How's the weather?

Students: It's sunny!

   Lots of weather flashcards in each color for the students to sort by color. Make the activity playful as you do on the floor, or a table, maybe the on the board.

After the sorting is done, say a weather and students find a card with the symbol.

Teacher: It's raining.

·       Review the emotions by sorting all the weather flashcards. Repetition of known words along with new vocabulary can be done easily with the flashcards. Do lip reading with your students as you mouth the phrase happy sun and have your students lip read the word and point to the corresponding flashcard.

·      Use the flashcards to describe the weather and the clothing. Students can sort the people flashcards into the hot and the cold weather according to the clothes that they wearing (hat,sweater,gloves, dress,swimsuit) using the hot and cold thermometers flashcards.
Teacher: What is the weather like?
Students: Today is cold.

Sort the people flashcards into the weather they might be in according to how they are dressed. Discuss about wearing the correct clothes for each weather.

Teacher: Look! rain! It's a rainy day. What are they wearing?

Students: a raincoat! boots!

Teacher: What do they have?

Students: an umbrella!

·       A set of numbers flashcards to sort on the board will make a good review. Have the students count the raindrops on each flashcard.

Teacher: Let's count the raindrops.

For extra practice, place the flashcards into a clear sheet protector and with dry erase markers have students count the number of raindrops on each cloud and write the number. It can be done with any of the weather flashcards.

Teacher: How many sunrays are there?

Students: seven!

·       Captivate students with these shapes weather flashcards. The sorting will stimulate thinking as they improve fine motor skills as they pick them and place them properly.

·       Use the flashcards for writing practice. Give students letters and have them make the word. Tracing the word with their fingers is also a way to practice writing as they pronounce each word.

Weather Unit Commands flashcards. Use them to review simple classroom instruction.

Teacher: Stand like the sun! Walk like the sun!

If you are teaching in a Bilingual classroom setting, here are the  flashcards in Spanish.

This Weather Unit resource has crafts. Check the blog post:   https://eflpreschoolteachers.blogspot.com/2021/10/weather-unit-printable-book-craft-and.html

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