Sea Unit Flashcards for Kindergarten English Language Learners

 The new theme-based resource for Teaching Kindergarten English Language Learners is here!! It can also be used with 1st graders. Find many tools to foster a positive attitude towards coming to your class. LINK to the Sea Unit for ELL:                   https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Sea-Unit-for-Kindergarten-Holistic-English-Series-29-8348964

This blog post will be dedicated to the flashcards that come in the resource.

Sea Animals Flashcards that can improve to fluency and accuracy in speaking. Find easy to follow instructions for activities with the flashcards.

I have seen that teachers love this unit for the Summer school.The use of the flashcards will develop your students´communicative skills.

Here are the basic flashcards with the sea animals or creatures, such as: starfish,fish, crab, octopus, shell. Have the students recognize and name the color of each sea creature.

Don’t miss the opportunity to activate prior knowledge of the basic emotions using several sea animals. Have the students sort the flashcards into happy, sad and angry.

Sea Animals have a body. Give your students oral practice of the new language but with a review of language from the body unit. Review the basic ones or go further with more body parts. Labeling will help review already known vocabulary. Write the words as your students name them and point the specific body part on the flashcard.

 

Sort the sea animals by colors.

Sort the flashcards into shapes.

Have fun as your students toss a bean bag toward the sea animals flash cards that you can place, face up, on the floor or a wall. The player will name the sea creature the bean bag landed on. Make one or more bean bag using a balloon. I glued eyes on the balloon, drew facial features and added yarn to make it look like a jellyfish.
A variation is that you name a sea animal and the student will aim to throw the bean bag to that specific flashcard and name it.
Use this game to assess the words that your student needs help with.
Benefits of playing throw the bean bag game: 
•       develop motor skills in children
•       develop hand-eye coordination
•       develop over- hand throwing skills

Activity: Write a number next to each flashcard. Say a number and have the students say the animal and then the opposite.

Teacher: Number five!

Students: shark!

Teacher: octopus!

Students: two!

Activity: Play Point to!

Teacher: Point to the dolphin!

 Give opportunities for grammar production and fluency.Cut the Sea Unit  flashcards and make puzzles for the students to put together. Students will say a sentence into what the puzzle turned out to be.

It's a shell.

Another activity is the mystery flashcard or peek-a-boo flashcard to review the Vocabulary. I used a blue recycled folder and closed it on the sides. I glued the under the sea title to the top of the folder. I opened some holes on the front of the folder to let the flashcard show through to have the students guess the sea animal.

Students: fish!

Teacher: NO!!!!

Students: crab!

Teacher: YES!!!! It's a crab!

Take a look on how I assembled the game!

Check the crafts included in the resource. Go to the blog post: 

 https://eflpreschoolteachers.blogspot.com/2022/08/sea-unit-printable-bookletcrafts-and.html  

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