Beach Unit Flashcards for Kindergarten ESOL

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This blog post will be dedicated to the printable Flashcards for going to the beach that come in the resource for creating games and activities.

Students can identify the Beach as a vacation spot and learn the vocabulary within the theme.

Beach Flashcards. These are intended to be fun in the hands of your students to get started with the new vocabulary. Students will identify objects at the beach, such as: sunglasses, towel,umbrella, bucket, shovel,sandcastle,shellsunscreen, beach ball,sand,beach.

Sorting has benefits for your students as it is a thinking skill that will develop reasoning and logic.

 Students can sort the flashcards into the beach items needed to go to the beach or items that are nature part of the scene. Divide the board in two and have them start sorting the Beach flashcards.

Let’s sort the beach Unit flashcards by feelings or emotions: there’s a bucket, a sandcastle and a sunscreen bottle. I am presenting sandcastle a complete word as in the dictionary. I have seen that many write it in two words. let me know if you need a change in the writing and I can do that for you.

Sorting by colors never gets old. Kids love this kind of activity to do in the classroom. Just sort the beach items by color.

Here are some flashcards with children in action at the beach. Students will be able to identify activities done at the beach. Give your students the command action and have the students mime the action as if they were at the beach. Students can describe ongoing actions that could be done at the beach: swimming, sitting in the sun, playing in the sand.

Student: She is building a castle.

Students will mime building a sandcastle.

Introduce students to express likes and dislikes at the beach.
Teacher: She likes to swim.
Does he like to surf?
Students: yes, he does.
Ask questions with CAN.
Teacher: Can he surf?
Students: Yes, he can.

 Name an action and have the students come to board and point to it.
Teacher: Surf!

Provide interaction between you and your students as you ask questions such as What does he or she have?

Teacher: What does this girl have?

Students: a surfboard!

          Use the Numbers 1 to 10 Crab flashcards to teach counting. Students should be able to recognize each number. Count with your students the crabs on each card. Students can write the numeral on each flashcard or next to it. Ask about quantity.
Teacher: How many crabs are there?
Students: one, two, three, four! Four crabs!

Have the students place all the crab at the beach flashcards in numerical order on the board.

Boos your students' speaking skills.Have students come up and count the crabs and write the numbers next to the flashcard.

The speaking bag. There is a cutout added to the resource to make a beach bag by gluing the cutout to a clear plastic sheet. Place several flashcards inside the plastic sheet and slowing take them out of the beach bag and have the students guess what was inside of the bag.

Students: seedweed!!!!!!

I finally made the big dice that I always intended to. I found a more less square box at the supermarket. I wrapped it up making sure that all the sides were the same size. I glued clear plastic sheets onto each side to make it easy to change the flashcards for this unit or any other. Student will throw the dice and say the word of the flashcards that landed.
Student: bucket!!!

If you have students that are in prewriting level, let them trace the word or write it over by putting the flashcards inside a plastic sheet.

What cute starfish to review the past vocabulary word and use it to introduce the new words for the beach unit.

Each starfish has a beach item. Ask questions:
Teacher: Look at the starfish. What does it have?
Students: sunglasses!
Have a student come and add the sunglasses flashcard next to it.

And the Beach items an have a face! Well, not really, but enough to review tha parts of the face with the flashcards, small cards and worksheets on the resource.

Place the flashcard inside a plastic sheets and with white board markers have the students trace the existing facial pats and draw the missing ones.

This is the worksheet example.

This set comes with the float, the sandcastle,the sunglasses and the flip-flops.

I made this reader by printing, cutting and gluing onto a wood stick. I use it for reading the words and naming the objects, then, the students can do the same on their own using the reader bucket.

Take a look:

The beach unit is part of a Bundle with 30 units for teaching Kindergarten English langauge learners:  

https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Kindergarten-English-Language-Teaching-Units-BUNDLE-7390586

Check the blog post related to the Beach Unit games included in this resource.

https://eflpreschoolteachers.blogspot.com/2022/09/beach-unit-games-for-kindergarten-esl.html