ESL/EFL Preschool Teachers: Weather Unit Games for the Kindergarten ESL

Games call for repetition of the weather vocabulary without even realizing. It will be the most popular part of your lesson. Change your games each day. Here is the link to the complete EFL resource: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Weather-Unit-for-Kindergarten-Holistic-English-Series-19-7255772

· Dominoes involve rules, manipulating the cards and classmates participation. The Weather Domino game is directed to vocabulary recognition.

· Bingo is great to play at the end of the lesson as they review the new vocabulary. The anxiety of a new Weather Unit language will lower by playing fun and exciting games.

Bingo is usually for listening if you call the cards but any student can be your assistant as in calling the cards.They will color the weather items in any of the participating colors.

The Weather Unit file folder game can be used as an independent activity as it will provide extra practice with shapes and the weather words. If the students work in teams they can correct each other.

· This other game will help review the weather words as they move the playing pieces around the game board. Vocabulary expansion can be put to use for student interaction. Play from start to the finish as students will concentrate to see who wins. Warm up the phrases: It’s my/your turn. Roll the dice. Take a card.

This game board has some cards that the students have to turn from the pack and say the weather in order to place the marker on that spot, the winner is the one that get to the finish spot which has the rainbow.

have the students name the weather: It's windy. It's sunny. It's snowing.

· Weather Unit Half cards game helps with memorization and matching.

· Wheel Spinners for the Weather Unit will make your students engaged and motivated to tell the weather. It can also be used along the printable book.

· Weather Unit Number picture matching cards to show what they know related to numbers and the quantities of weather symbols. This game is for identifying numbers and counting the sunrays and the raindrops. Have the students establish the number sequence 1 to 10 on the floor or table.

Mix up all the cards and have the students match them all in a traditional way. Another idea is to place them into a plastic bag and have students grab one and at your signal students walk around the room to find the match.

· The pocket charts can be used for group meetings. Use the pointer made with the cutouts from this resource to read each Weather phrase that you put up. Then, have a student to be the teacher and read to the group.

· Puzzle are for learning and develop spatial awareness. Start with this Weather unit Vocabulary game.

Include the review of the Emotions in the Weather Unit. This is a simple file folder game. You can do it this way with the phrases and students match the pictures or all the way around. It can also be a memory game if you print the cards double.