Routine Verbs Flashcards for Kindergarten ESL

This complete Daily Routine Unit for kindergarten English language learners includes printable flashcards, worksheets, games, small cards, cutouts, speaking activities, vocabulary practice, printable books, crafts, and hands-on ESL resources designed especially for preschool and kindergarten students. Available at the TPT store:   https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Routine-Verbs-Unit-for-Kindergarten-Holistic-English-Series-24-7755611

Practice daily routine vocabulary with these Daily Routine Verbs Flashcards for preschool and kindergarten English language learners. The flashcards introduce common everyday actions such as eating breakfast, brushing teeth, washing hands, getting dressed, doing homework, taking a bath, and going to bed while helping young ESL and EFL students develop vocabulary recognition, speaking skills, listening comprehension, and sentence-building confidence.

These printable routine verbs flashcards are perfect for circle time, literacy centers, speaking practice, personal hygiene lessons, parts of the day activities, and hands-on learning for preschool and kindergarten English learners.

Introduce Daily Routine Vocabulary

 Use the flashcards to motivate speaking and play games in class. Talk about personal hygiene as in brushing their teeth, hair and more to activate oral language.

The flashcards would include: go home, eat breafast (lunch, dinner),take a bath,go to bed(school),do homework,wash hands (face),brush hair (teeth), get dressed, make the bed,pick up toys,sleep.

Introduce the parts of the day (morning, noon,night)using the flashcards. Have students relate what is done during the day and night.

Place the parts of the day flashcards on the board and have your students say what they usually do in the morning, as in my example and put the routine flashcard as in a mind map format. Students can also describe ongoing actions.
Teacher: What is the boy doing?
Students: He is eating breakfast.
Ask personal questions :
Teacher: When do you eat breakfast?
Students: I eat breakfast in the morning.

Practice Morning, Afternoon, and Night Vocabulary

Replace:

Continue with the afternoon flashcard. Ask questions.
Teacher: What do eat for lunch every day?
Students answers will vary. 
Ask for every meal: breakfast, lunch, dinner.

Students can talk about their routine, model a sentence for them.

Teacher:In the afternoon, I go home.

Speaking Practice with Afternoon Routines

Then pull up the night flashcard. Graph how many students read a book at night or plays.

Ask students what they like to do at night.

Teacher: Do you like to play with toys at night? What do you like to do?

Talk About Morning Routines

Place the morning flashcard and several morning routine in an specific order. Then, have the students say if the order is correct and write the number.

Ask questions: What is she doing?

Student: She is brushing her teeth.

Ask more questions with washing, getting dressed.

Match Daily Routines to the Parts of the House

Use the Parts of the house flashcards to have the students sort where the routines are taken place.

Place the parts of the house flashcards and have the students sort all the routine verbs flashcards.

Practice Daily Actions with Movement

Show your students a flashcard and have the class mime the action for the new expression. Teacher: He washes his hands with soap.

There is a set of several grooming objects flashcards (toothbrush,brush,soap,for the daily routines.

 Show a flashcard and have the identify the routine it is used for.

Teacher: What is this?
Students: a toothbrush (mime brushing their teeth)

Introduce Personal Hygiene Vocabulary

Have your students identify grooming items .They can make sentences as your model. Use the flashcards to help.

Teacher: Can you brush your teeth by yourself?
Students: Yes.
Ask questions:
Teacher: What do you need to brush your hair?
Students: I need a brush.

Teacher: You brush your teeth with a toothbrush.

Speaking Practice with Grooming Objects

Use the flashcards to ask ability questions.

Teacher: Can you brush your teeth?
Students: Yes!

A video on how to use the Routine Unit Printable Flashcards effectively.

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