Sea Unit Small Cards for Kindergarten ESOL

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This blog post will be dedicated to the small cards or mini flashcards that come in the resource for small group instruction or online teaching.

Sea Creatures small cards that can be used to teach K-5 Science.

Develop the speaking skills with this easy activity. Recycle the core langauge from the color unit. Plan this strategy as a communication problem solving activity.

Students can match the colors to each sea creature as they say the phrase: a yellow fish!  Using the cutout helps the students to say the color before the noun. It is a great activity for having the students describe the sea creatures using colors.

 Keep on sorting all the small cards by colors.  Then, ask questions:
Teacher: What Sea creatures are red?
Students: The shark and the shell.

Incorporate memory games for your students to play in small groups, turning around the cards as they say which animal they see. These games improve their overall Education.

                            Make the the activities motivating to keep yur students interested. Sort the Sea Creatures small cards by shapes.

This activity was easy to make. I folded a construction paper in two and glue the sides, leaving the bottom part open. Before closing the sides with glue open some holes as waves.  Then, paint some waves. Add a craft stick to each sea creature and have your students guess what animal is there.
Teacher: What can you see?
Students: a jellyfish!

Fun and interactive materials are great teaching tools.Use the reader to help with identifying the picture and try reading the word. Just print the template and add a craft stick to the side.

A new addition to this unit are these SHARKS. I found this clipart and had to give it a try for the students to review and use the vocabulary related to the family. 

The flashcards with all the family members featured as sharks. Each person has something that is characteristic and you should point it out.

Teacher: Who is this?

Students: Mom!

Teacher: What does she have?

Students will point to the purse. Continue with the rest of shark where students will give a personal response to your questions.

There is a set of small cards. Place them on a table or on the board and have the students point to each family as they name each one. I made a pointer with a lobster fun foam piece that I had and a craft stick.

Student: mommy! daddy! grandpa!

You know that I love cutouts. Made some toilet paper puppets to review this Shark family instead of printing the flashcards. Elicit the names of the family members.

Or make the family unit gloves. I grabbed a pair o bathing gloves and placed some bubble wrap paper inside each finger and then glued the sharks with silicon. 

To wrap up the Shark family, print the two worksheets. One is the family member correspondence. You can dictate the colors: Mommy Shark is purple. Make sure that they color the item that belongs to each person, in this case is the purse. Then, have the students to follow the line from to daddy. Focus on this language content: Who's this? This is mommy!

The other worksheet is a sea scene where the stduents will cut  the sharks from the previous worksheet and glue onto the ocean.

There are several games included in this resource. Check the blog post:

https://eflpreschoolteachers.blogspot.com/2022/08/sea-unit-printable-games-for.html