ESL/EFL Preschool Teachers: The Frog and the Routine Verbs for Kindergarten ESL

This complete Daily Routine Unit for kindergarten English language learners includes printable flashcards, small cards, cutouts, worksheets, games, printable books, crafts, awards, speaking activities, vocabulary practice, and hands-on ESL resources designed especially for preschool and kindergarten students. This resource is available at the TPT store:

https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Routine-Verbs-Unit-for-Kindergarten-Holistic-English-Series-24-7755611

Practice daily routine vocabulary in a fun and engaging way with these Frog Daily Routine activities for preschool and kindergarten English language learners. The resource combines adorable frog characters with familiar daily actions to help young ESL and EFL students develop vocabulary recognition, speaking confidence, sequencing skills, and classroom communication.

These printable frog daily routine activities are perfect for literacy centers, speaking practice, vocabulary review, personal hygiene lessons, and hands-on learning for preschool and kindergarten English learners.

By learning the verbs connected to these actions, students acquire language that is immediately relevant to their own lives. Using frogs in routine actions gives a fun, visual, and playful twist to learning.

Frog Daily Routine Flashcards

The flashcards encourage students to build simple sentences such as “The frog is playing the piano”.

Have the students act it out like the frog! Show the flashcards to reinforce the meaning without translating.

Teacher: The frog is reading.

Speaking Practice with Frog Daily Routines

Place the frog flashcards in different routines on the board. Place a paper on each card with a number. Students call out a number and then describe it in order to win the card: “The frog is eating ice cream!”

Interactive Daily Routine Review Activities

Use a spinner with pictures of the frogs in action. Students spin and then do the action or say the sentence using the flashcard. Assemble by using a butterfly pin and a clip.

frog daily routine for preschool English learners

These cards are perfect for playing the Fly Swatter Game — a high-energy vocabulary review activity. Display several frog routine cards on the board or table. Call out a routine verb (e.g., The frog is playing basketball). Two students race to swat the correct card with a fly swatter. The first to swat the right frog wins the round!

Frog Routine Pocket charts cards

Give half the class a picture card and the other half a word card. Students walk around the room and find their match. Once matched, they come to the pocket chart and place their pair together as they name the match.

name the routine vebs using the pocket charts

Frog Routine Printable Game boards

Players roll a die and move their token forward. They land on a frog doing a routine action. They must say the verb or sentence: The frog is eating!

If they say it correctly, they stay—if not, go back one space or try again.