Circus Unit Flashcards for Kindergarten English language Learner

 This is the first blog post for the CIRCUS unit resource available for teaching Kindergarten English Language Learners. Click on the Link to the complete resource:   https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Circus-Unit-for-Kindergarten-Holistic-English-Series-27-8156815

Teaching vocabulary through a fun and engaging theme like the circus helps young English Language Learners connect language with meaningful experiences. These Circus Unit flashcards are designed to introduce vocabulary through visual support, movement, and interactive activities, allowing students to build confidence while learning new words.

Circus Unit Vocabulary Presentation

Consolidate vocabulary in a ludic way. Circus Vocabulary Flashcards are a way to help your students to improve their visual memory and focus on learning the new vocabulary.

Use the Circus Flashcards to introduce the new words. Have the students identify Circus animals and people.

People at the Circus (WHO Questions)

People work at the Circus, present them all together and ask questions with WHO?

Teacher: Who is this ?

Students: The clown!

Circus Food Vocabulary

There is food at the Circus. Review or introduce what people usually eat at the Circus, have them guess and pull out the flashcard.

Parts of the Face (Clown Activity)

Review the parts of the face using the clown flashcard. Include: ears,eyes, face,mouth, nose.As a teacher, use your chalk to collaboratively write the word for each part of face with your students. Reread the words with your students as a revision with them.

Body Parts Review

Using the clown again, students can review parts of the body, connecting vocabulary with real-life references and improving comprehension through visual support.

The clothes can also be reviewed.

Animals Vocabulary

In most circus settings there are animals or least there used to be. Review the animals by using the train with animals flashcards set. Put the train flashcards with zoo animals to play a review game. Use the pointer arrow that you can make using the templates.

Teacher: Point to the elephant!

Color Sorting Activity

The colors can be put into practice.Sorting circus items by color helps students develop both vocabulary and categorization skills. This type of activity strengthens visual discrimination and memory.

Here’s another example.

Identification Game (Pointer Activity)

Prompt the students to identify the circus vocabulary flashcards using the arrow pointer or any other that you might have. If the student identifies the flashcard, take it off the board and give it to him/her. If not, continue with another student.

Student: Magician!

Throw the ball game

Find a very soft and harmless ball to have the students throw to the Circus Flashcard that you name from a distance. Students love playing with a ball and they can get extremely excited.

Student: tent!

Circus includes a balancing act!

 I bought the hat at a party store. Have the students walk with the flashcard on the hat as they say the name of flashcard.

Beanbag Game

Throw a beanbag to the favorite item in the circus. Line up the flashcards on the floor or desk. Name an item and have the student throw the bean bag to it.

Make the beanbag using felt and the templates provided. I made the ticket beanbag as my example. You can make several beanbags in different colors.

These circus ESL games are perfect for kindergarten students learning vocabulary through fun, interactive, and communicative activities.Go to the blog post:   https://eflpreschoolteachers.blogspot.com/2022/06/circus-unit-games-for-kindergarten-ell.html

Find more ideas and resources  at my Pinterest Board:

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