Saturday, October 30, 2021

Park or playground printable book, craft and rewards

   The complete resource for the park unit to teach class 1 is here:   https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Park-or-Playground-Unit-for-Kindergarten-Holistic-English-Series-20-7345816

park unit to teach class 1

This Playground Printable Book, Craft, and Reward set is part of a complete Park & Playground Unit for Kindergarten English Language Learners, designed to help students review, apply, and celebrate what they have learned.

 These activities are not just fun—they help students reinforce vocabulary through communication and creativity, which is essential for language development. 

Park Unit picture description Printable book

Great for sending them home for the emergent reader in your class. This is a color, cut and paste book. There is boy/girl template to paste. Use as you want to complete it in pairs or in bigger groups.

Playground printable book kindergarten ESL emergent reader activity

Take a look on how to assemble the playground booklet.


Park or playground unit vocabulary craft
 By doing crafts, students are communicating in the target language with you and their classmates. I grabbed a part of a pizza box and glued craft paper around the box. Students could color each playground object and glue onto toilet paper rolls cut in half. Students can place their objects as they wish and have a show and tell activity later.

Playground craft activity kindergarten ESL cut and paste project

Park Unit Rewards 

These come in handy when your students are struggling within the lesson. You should print these onto card or stiff paper. Show them the reward that is a pass to go to the playground if there is one in school or send home for the parents to take them and explain why you are giving the reward.

Teacher: Tomas, you participated by speaking English in class and here is your pass to go to the playground.

Park Unit Rewards

Why Add Crafts and Books to Your ESL Lessons

Crafts and printable books allow students to:

✔ Use language while creating
✔ Practice speaking naturally
✔ Build confidence

 When students create and present their work, they are actively using English, not just recognizing it.

 The park Cutouts are one of the most flexible tools in the classroom.    Go to the blog post,click here:   https://eflpreschoolteachers.blogspot.com/2021/10/playground-unit-cutouts-for.html

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Thursday, October 28, 2021

Playground or park Unit Games for Kindergarten English Language Learners

  Games are where students actively use what they have learned at the park-playground or recess unit for Preschool or Kindergarten English Language Learner. Go to the resource:   https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Park-or-Playground-Unit-for-Kindergarten-Holistic-English-Series-20-7345816

park-playground or recess unit Preschool English Language Learner

These Playground Games are part of a complete Park & Playground Unit for Kindergarten English Language Learners, designed to help students move from recognizing vocabulary to using it confidently. The most important stage—using the language through playGames provide the perfect opportunity for students to Speak and interact.

ESL Playground vocabulary Unit Games. Engage using these games to keep up the interest in the class as they learn about competition in a safe way.

The classic Bingo is always a winner

Students develops the language as they hear the phrases and will repeat them with even pressuring them as they play. Students color their template in any of the colors that are within the calling cards. Use the calling cards to start your Bingo.

ESL Playground vocabulary Unit Games

Domino will tune in the skills of recognition of the words and socializing as they play.  Focus: Word recognition and Social interaction.

przedszkolne playground park recess domino game

File folder game is a way for the students to practice the playground words and work on their own. Students should be able to identify the playground objects in any scene or picture.

Inglés

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Puzzles is a way of teaching the concept of putting two pieces together can make a whole card.

park game name

Promote the ability to reason playing this half card game in which students put together the compete card. You can give a half card to each student as they enter or class and at your signal have them stand up and sit with the person that has the other half.

Complete playground unit ESL games kindergarten resource

Board games are for logical thinking and children are not exposed to these games enough in the classroom.

Playground board game ESL speaking activity kindergarten

Pocket charts: easy to assemble for individual practice.

Pocket chart activity playground vocabulary ESL classroom
 

There are always crafts for each unit. Check the blog post.

 

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Tuesday, October 26, 2021

Playground or Park Unit Worksheets for Kindergarten EFL

These Playground Worksheets help students move from recognizing vocabulary to fully understanding and using it.When combined with flashcards, small cards, and cutouts, they become part of a complete ESL teaching system🔗 Get the full resource here: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Park-or-Playground-Unit-for-Kindergarten-Holistic-English-Series-20-7345816

Park playground recess resource

These Playground Worksheets are part of a complete Park & Playground Unit for Kindergarten English Language Learners, designed to help students reinforce and consolidate what they have learned.  The worksheets play a key role. They provide a calm, focused stage of learning, allowing students to process and internalize the language.

Playground Unit Worksheets for kindergarten learners are still an important English teaching material for active learning.

Park Unit Worksheets as Flashcards

It’s important that students have their own set of flashcards either to take home or to play in class. 

Playground worksheets kindergarten ESL vocabulary practice activity

This activity is with cups that I attached the card with a binder clip and had the students sort the cutouts. Encourage students to collaborate with one another as a teamwork doing this activity.

Park vocabulary worksheet English language learners preschool

listen and color worksheets

I love to extend the worksheets. There is the boy and the girl.

Teacher: Find the slide! Color the slide red.

Have the students say the color of the other drawings in the worksheet.

At the end, either you or the students can cut up the worksheet and create a puzzle that another student can put together.

Vocabulary recognition worksheet park unit kindergarten ESL

Worksheets are for individual work in class or to send home if your school requires homework. It’s easy for the parents to help complete with their children and review the adjectives big and small.

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Worksheets can be used for assessment.

Color and identify playground objects ESL worksheet activit

numbers and shape review worksheets

Park Unit Worksheets can be used to review concepts from previous lessons. In this case, numbers and shape. Students should be able to identify the shapes and the numbers in a picture of a park scene. They should be able to follow directions to find the numbers and shapes.
Teacher: Find Number 1. Color it yellow.

        park unit worksheets numbers 1 to 10 Kindergarten ESL coloring worksheet playground vocabulary

Tracing worksheets help developing the fine  motor skills. After the worksheet is done, make puppets to play games in class.


Practice worksheet for park vocabulary kindergarten learners

More worksheets to highlight the park unit vocabulary. These worksheets are the reinforcement stage of a complete Playground Unit.

Complete playground unit ESL worksheets kindergarten resource

Check the other blog posts related to the park/playground theme printable book and more. LINK:https://eflpreschoolteachers.blogspot.com/2021/10/park-or-playground-printable-book-craft.html

Friday, October 22, 2021

Playground Unit Cutouts for Kindergarten ESL

   These Playground Cutouts transform your lessons from simple vocabulary practice into interactive, engaging learning experiences. When combined with flashcards, small cards, and worksheets, they become part of a complete ESL teaching system🔗 Get the full resource here:https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Park-or-Playground-Unit-for-Kindergarten-Holistic-English-Series-20-7345816

Playground cutouts ESL kindergarten vocabulary activity

These Playground Cutouts are part of a complete Park & Playground Unit for Kindergarten English Language Learners, designed to help students move from recognizing vocabulary to actively using it. Cutouts are one of the most flexible tools in the classroom because they allow students to play games and practice speaking.



Why use the Playground Unit words Cutouts
 
Because they help create interactive activities to help your stduents review the newly taught language.

Use them to build up on the new vocabulary retention helping them understand the grammar structure.Place the cutouts on the booard and ask questions.
Teacher: What can you see at the park?
Students: the monkey bars! the bench!

Park vocabulary cutouts for English language learners

GRAMMAR STRUCTURE 

The park vocabulary words cutouts can be used to play as many games that you want, or as a classroom decoration, too. Expose your students to the vocabulary in multiple ways. Use the cutouts to model simple sentence structures.  Teacher: The boy is on the monkey bars.

ESL playground game using cutouts kindergarten classroom

Use The cutouts for games 

Review the topic of the unit  with the cutouts and the pocket chart. I have a small pocket chart, but you can place these between two or more pocket charts mats and play fly swatter. Students can say a phrase every time they swat a cutout: Let's slide on the slide!

Park or Playground cutout activity ESL

Match words to pictures cutouts

I added the words to play match to the playground objects. Matching helps with concentration, making them feel good about the vocabulary words they can identify.Aural recognition of the words is crucial to vocabulary retention.
Matching playground vocabulary with cutouts ESL activity

Why These Cutouts Are Essential

These cutouts are not just for decoration or occasional use.

👉 They are designed to:

✔ Be reused across multiple lessons
✔ Support speaking and interaction
✔ Reinforce vocabulary through play

👉 This makes them one of the most powerful parts of your Playground Unit system.


These playground flashcards are designed for the presentation stage. Go to the blog post:   https://eflpreschoolteachers.blogspot.com/2021/10/park-playground-unit-flashcards-for.html

There is a park, playground bundle for teaching Kindergarten and Elementary ELLs, here:    https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Playground-Park-recess-BUNDLE-for-Kindergarten-and-Elementary-ESL-7019897

Just follow my other blog for older students: https://eflelementaryresources.blogspot.com/

Wednesday, October 20, 2021

Park unit small cards to teach Kindergarten EFL

 These small cards take your Playground Unit to the next level.  When combined with flashcards, worksheets, and games, they become part of a complete, ready-to-teach ESL system🔗 Get the full resource here:   https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Park-or-Playground-Unit-for-Kindergarten-Holistic-English-Series-20-7345816

Park Unit Resource Kindergarten English Language Learners

These Playground Small Cards are part of a complete Park & Playground Unit for Kindergarten English Language Learners, designed to take students from vocabulary recognition to active use. 

The small cards allow students to practice, interact, and play with the language. Because of their size, they are perfect for  small group activities,learning centers,pair work and hands-on games.

Park Unit Small cards will work great for the little hands as they hold them to play the games that you set for them. Kids will retain the new playground vocabulary better as they use the cards.

Review can/can't to express ability with the small cards. 

Teacher: Can he swing in the swings?
Students: Yes, he can. 

Playground small cards kindergarten ESL vocabulary activity

PRESENT CONTINUOUS 

Use the cards to ask questions in the present continuous:

Teacher: Who is hopping?
Students: The boy!

 This encourages students to observe, think, and respond, instead of just repeating.

ESL park vocabulary small cards for young learners

Introduce functional language with sentences using Let's

Students can invite classmates to follow along saying the sentence uisng the small card as a reference, turning language into real communication.
Student: Let's go to the swings!

Students using small cards in ESL playground activity

 MATCHING ACTIVITY 

Use the small cards to have the students identify the playground equipment.Write the vocabulary playground words onto the board or a big cardboard and have the students find the word to place the small card on. This activity connects visual recognition and reading skills.                           Matching playground words and pictures ESL activity

Interactive T-SHIRT activity

I saw a similar idea on Pinterest as to make a T-shirt to display cards. I gave it a try. I got an old black T-shirt, even though, I think that a green shirt would work better. I glued the cards onto felt, added Velcro onto each felt piece and onto the T-shirt.This turns the teacher (or a student) into a moving learning tool.

Point to each card and ask questions.
Teacher: What is this?
Students: It’s a jungle gym!
Teacher: What color is it?
Students: It’s blue and green.

                         Interactive ESL teaching with velcro cards t-shirt activity

These playground worksheets support multiple skills at the same time. Go to the blog post:   https://eflpreschoolteachers.blogspot.com/2021/10/the-complete-resource-for-park-unit-is.html




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Sunday, October 17, 2021

Park -Playground unit Flashcards for Kindergarten English Language Learners

 Instead of searching for separate activities, you can have a fully organized, ready-to-teach system for the park unit. Save time, reduce planning stress, and teach with confidence. 🔗 Get the full resource here:    https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Park-or-Playground-Unit-for-Kindergarten-Holistic-English-Series-20-7345816

Playground flashcards kindergarten ESL vocabulary

This Playground Unit Flashcards set is the first step in a complete Park & Playground Unit for Kindergarten English Language Learners.  These flashcards are designed for the presentation stage, where students are introduced to key vocabulary such as swing, slide, seesaw, and monkey barsThey are part of a complete teaching system
Take a look of the complete resource.


Flashcards are effective tools for introducing new vocabulary to young learners.  With clear visuals and repetition, students can quickly connect words like swing or slide with real meaning. This is especially important in the presentation stage, where students need strong visual support before moving on to practice activities. 👉 In this unit, flashcards are not used alone—they are the foundation for everything that comes next.

Introduce key playground vocabulary

Use these playground picture cards to start describing locations using complete sentences.
Ask questions: What's this?
Students: It's a playground.
playground verbs picture cards flashcards

Use the flashcards to introduce can: Can you play hopscotch?
Ask key language: Do you like to play on the swings?

QUESTION & ANSWER SECTION

 Show a playground flashcard and have the students point and name each one.

Teacher: Swing!
Students: swing! (pointing to the swing flashcard)

Playground flashcards kindergarten ESL vocabulary

Making suggestions: let's go to

 As students might go to the park at school, introduce the phrase Let’s go to---! Show a flashcard and make an inviting gesture to a student.

Teacher: Let’s go to the slide!

These structures will be reused later in games and role-play activities, reinforcing learning across the unit.

Park vocabulary flashcards English language learners preschool

ACTION VERBS / COMMANDS 

There are several commands flashcards to do this activity. Using the most common park verbs: swing, push, pull, hang, run, walk. the teacher will show the monkey bars flashcards and have the stduents mime the action.
ESL students miming playground actions with flashcards

Place the swing and the push flashcards on the board together. Do the same with hang and monkey bars. Students mime the action.
Teacher: Push the swing!
Students: Push the swing! (do the action of pushing a swing)
This activity reinforces understanding through physical response, which is essential for early language learning.      
                      basic classroom commands in english

The flashcards aid to identify actions in Present Continuous
Say the sentence as you point to the flashcard and have the students mime the action.

Teacher: sliding the slide!
Ask questions:
Teacher: Who’s climbing the jungle gym?
Students: the boy!

 Teacher: What is she doing?
Students: She's playing hopscotch!                 Playground flashcards game kindergarten ESL classroom activity

Nature at the Park

Students might already know these park related words for nature. Ask students what they have seen in the park.
Teacher: Have you seen a tree? (point to the tree)
Students: Yes! No!
Count how many students have seen a tree in a park.

Playground flashcards kindergarten ESL vocabulary

“TEACHER SAYS” GAME 

Place several flashcards around the room. Give instructions and have the students perform them using the classroom commands flashcards.
Teacher: Run to the jungle gym!
Students run to the flashcard of the jungle gym.

Ask your students what other things they can do at the playground. 
Teacher: Can you jump? What can you do ?

Park unit flashcards activity

WRITING STATION

Set up an interactive writing station where students can choose a card with a picture of a clothing item and use magnetic letters to spell the word on the board. Students will write the playground words next to each playground flashcard.


Ask questions: Where is the boy?
                      He's on the swing.

interactive writing station with flashcards park unit

Commands Flashcards for the Playground unit.

 Students should be able to understand and follow these simple commands.

Use them to have the students mime each action that they do in the playground.
Teacher: hop! (students mime hopping) 

Teaching present continuous with playground flashcards ESL

 These flashcards can be used to introduce the present continuous: 

Teacher: He is jumping!
What is she doing?
Students: She's crawling.
Put two flashcards together of the same verb and ask questions.
Teacher: What are they doing?
Students: They are jumping rope.

     teacher commands flashcards

Print the teddy bears at the park mat. Place it inside a clear plastic sheet so you can reuse as many times as you need. Tell your stduents that the teddy bears are playing at the playground. Give them bottle caps if they are old enough to mark the teddy bear that you are talking about.
Teacher: The teddy bear is at the slide. (green! place the green bottle cap on the teedy bear)
Continue with more.Students can also draw things that are at the park, such as trees, balls and more.

teddy bears at the park mat

Some teachers are in dual language classroom and need Flashcards in Spanish which is my native language. There are many other words for naming the parts of the park. I used these common ones, but I can make the flashcards with the specific word in your native Spanish.  

Park vocabulary ESL unit presentation stage flashcards

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