Farm Unit Flashcards for Kindergarten ELL

 This is the first blog post for ideas on how to use the Flashcards for the resource  Farm Unit for Kindergarten English Language Learners. Click on the Link to get the teaching resources to complete your lesson plan right away:     https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Farm-Animals-Unit-for-Kindergarten-Holistic-English-Series-25-7973567

Farm Unit Flashcards that include: hen, bull, calf,cow,goose,gosling, turkey,poult,crow, foal, horse,lamb, pig,piglet, farmer,goat,kid, sheep,scarecrow, mud,silo,fence,nest,egg, tractor,hay, puddle.

Make sure that your students will see and hear the farm words many times and in different contexts to memorize them.

Place the farm flashcard in the middle of the board and start placing the animals that live on the farm as you model a sentence. Place some more animals and have students say a similar sentence using the verb to be.
Teacher: What is this?
Students: a pig.
Students: The rooster lives on the farm.
Teacher: The pig lives on the farm.

Review the colors of the farm animals. Place the color words on the board and have the students sort the animals by color.
Ask questions.
Teacher: Show me the chick! What color is the chick?
Students: It’s yellow.

There’s a set of several animals on one flashcards that can be sorted by color as well. Here’s an example. Ask questions.
Teacher: Show me the horses! What color is the horses?
Students: They’re brown.

Teacher: What are these?
Students: cows!

Teacher: How many turkeys are there?

Students: ten.

Have the students count each farm animal flashcard and write the number next to each one on the blackboard.
Teacher: Let’s count! One, two, three, four. Four cows.
Ask questions.
Teacher: Look! How many pigs are there?
Students: There are eight.

Use the this and that point finger cutout to put it on the board and a farm animal flashcard. Perfect to use with the demonstrative, such as this, that, these, those: 
Ask questions.
Teacher: Look! This is a horse.
That is a duckling.

Use the point finger cutouts and the plural form of the animals to do the same. Ask questions.
Teacher: Look! These are ducks.
Those are sheep.

Recycle the body words and translate them to the farm animals that also have a body. Have the students find similarities and differences. Place the flashcard of a cow and have the students name and point to all the body parts that they remember and write the word next to it. Introduce the new words, such as hoof.

Write the number 2 and 4 on the board and have the students sort the farm animals by the number of legs.

Ask questions:
Teacher: Who has 2 legs?
Students: the chick!
Teacher: How many legs does the pig have?
Students: four!

Use the flashcards to introduce the sound each farm animal can make.I included the most common animal sounds: moo, oink,baa, cluck,neigh, quack.

Teacher: What sound does the duck make?
Students: quack.

Teacher: What does the cow say?
Students: Moo-moo.

There is a set of the farm animals performing an action(Commands).The imperatives are used for simple instructions. Students will be able to understand and give a command or instruction. Place the flashcards on the board. Have the students mime the action.It will be fun to see your students carrying out these commands. Use any set of animal flashcards to do this.
Teacher: Stand up like the cow!
 Walk like the cow, sit down like the cow.

Go on with having the students sort the farm animals into mother and baby. Introduce the new vocabulary:calf, lamb,duckling,chick, foal.

Ask questions: Can you see the piglet?
Student: Yes, I can.

Can you see the goat?

Student: No, I can't.

Favorite animal graph. Hand in the favorite farm animal worksheet to your students. Give them time to draw their favorite farm animal. Place your farm animal flashcards on the board and have the students come and place their worksheet under the flashcard. Ask questions:
Teacher: Which is the favorite farm animal?
Students: The horse!!

Review the parts of the face and or the body using any of the farm animal flashcards.

Review the emotions on the farm animals. Sort the animals by emotions: happy, sad and angry. Use mime for the emotions.

Teacher: Make a happy face like the horse!

Review the shapes: circle, square, triangle and rectangle. Draw the basic shapes on the board and have the students sort the farm animals.

Ask questions.
Teacher: What farm animal is this?
Students: a cow!
Teacher: What shape is it?
Students: a circle!!

Farm Animals Eat.Students will be taught on what to feed the farm animals. I researched a little on do the farm animals generally eat and use the theme to review the food and insect vocabulary. I made a list that I researched on what do farm animals eat. It is included in the resource.
Teacher: The hens, rooster and chickens eat fruit, vegetables, insects and grass.

The food for the ducks is similar but there are some different items. Have the students see the difference.

Use the flashcards to review the clothes that Farmers wear.

A simple and easy game to play with the Farm Unit Flashcards or the small cards. Just print and cut the car units to plastic cups. Name an animal and the student has to place the cup on the flashcard and say the word.
Teacher: Lion!
Student: Lion! (place the cup on the flashcard)

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