Face Teaching Materials for the Preschool ELL

Face Unit Resources for Teaching Kindergarten English Language Learners.

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Use the worksheets to introduce the parts of the face. Then cut them and make flashcards to play games.

I saw this idea on Pinterest and gave it a try. I found an old Godiva chocalate box. I also found an old piece of magnetic from those memo pads for the refrigerator, cut in two and glued with silicon onto the box. I recycled everything here. Use the worksheets as cards with the magnetic letters.

 or you can do the Letter art and craft with the worksheets.

Another worksheet to review boy /girl and parts of tyhe face.I glued some yarn for the hair and added moving eyes to make a puppet.

And a puzzle to review numbers

Worksheet with Family members.Here´s mommy, daddy, brother, sister, grandma, grandpa and baby boy and girl.

A worksheet for the Birthday Theme. Birthday Boy and girl.

Draw the face on the Community Helpers.

And the pets have a face.

Draw the missing facial features.

Add the parts of the face on the toys.

and  draw the face on the vegetables.

                                 

                       I made this board game using a file folder.

I had these face cards. I made a puzzle with them. Cut the face and glue it onto crafts sticks, make sure that they don´t move. I put glue all over the clip art like decoupage, let it dry. Then, cut each craft stick apart and it will be ready to play.

Adding some old Flashcards.

Never miss the power of paper bag puppets.

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Happy Birthday Unit for ELL

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For the birthday theme it is good to review the numbers 1 to 10 first.

Show the number flashcard one at a time in random order and have the students look  up for the number in their book and point to it.

Flashcard activity 1 that review numbers and colors at the same time: 

Stand 10 students in front of the class. Hand in the number flashcards in random order. Stand behind a student.

Teacher: What is her name ?

Students: Patricia.

Teacher: What is Patricia´s number ?

Students:  seven.

Flashcard activity 2:  Stand 10 students in front of the class. Hand in the number flashcards in order. Stand behind a student.

Teacher: What number is this ?

Students: four.

Teacher: What color is number 4 ?

Students: pink.

Continue with all the numbers.

The use of the cutouts is for active participation of the whole class. The activities here are noncompetitive and supposed to involve all children. Laminate your cutouts with clear contact paper.

Place the cake cutout on the board. Have a student come to the board and give him/her the candles.  Ask How old are you ? Have the student place that number of candles on the cake.

Count the candles with the class.

Teacher: How many candles are there ? let´s count!

One, two,three four, five!

Five candles.

Get a birthday bag and place 5 real candles or cutouts. Take one out at a time and start counting with the class. Place all the cutouts in the bag. Show the different cakes cutouts.

 

Teacher: What color is the cake ?

Students: It´s yellow and pink.

Teacher: What color is the candle ?

Students: It´s blue.

Teacher: How many candles are there ?

Students: one.

Do the same with all the other cakes.

Teacher: How many presents are there ?

Students:  one, two, three. There are three.

 Teacher: How many balloons are there ?

Students:  one, two, three, four, five. There are five.

Teacher: what color are they ?

Students: pink, green, yellow, purple, blue.

Bring colored balloons to the class. Have children pick a balloon in their favorite color.

Student: a balloon, please

Teacher: What color ?

Student: pink. Thank you.

Blow up all the balloons. Give each child a Sharpie marker and have him/her write their name on the balloon. Tie the balloon to the back of their chairs.

Teacher: Blue balloons, stand up !

Teacher: Red balloons, run!

Teacher: yellow balloons, jump !

Letter arts and crafts is so popular that I am creating more uppercase letters for each theme, so the collection gets bigger. It is fun for children to put together the letter craft, but you can make them for class decoration.

Use the worksheets as a supplement to your lesson planning. It reviews emotions, face, color recognition, shapes and numbers by improving fine motor skills along the way. The worksheets are supposed to be fun and challenging. I made banners, necklaces, flashcards and Bingo.

This time a wish balloon. Place any cutout from a magazine of something that you wish.

Teacher: I wish for a sweater and shoes.

Put the wish symbol over your head.

Have the children do the same.

Flashcards are still effective tools for the class. Plan motivating games with the theme for independent learning or for groups.

I created a birthday wheel to play a guessing game or for the students to make their own.

Puzzles can help with spatial relationships, eye-hand coordination, and fine motor skills. Children can do the puzzles by themselves. Make two copies of each puzzle, one is for showing it to the students and the other is the one that you will cut apart to complete. Then, show the pieces of puzzle that the students are going to complete and count the pieces.

If you want to check extra ideas, go to my other blog posts.

http://eflpreschoolteachers.blogspot.com/2015/09/birthday-and-numbers.html

http://eflpreschoolteachers.blogspot.com/2013/08/balloon-theme.html

http://eflpreschoolteachers.blogspot.com/2013/02/birthday-theme.html

Check out my new Pinterest Board: ESL Birthday.

https://www.pinterest.com/ei98srl/esl-birthday-theme/

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Christmas Activities for Preschool ELL

Take advantage of students´ excitement  by the celebration and extend the lesson planning by doing different activities in the classroom that recycles all that has been learned.

Links to the files at my Teachers Pay Teachers Store.

https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Christmas-for-Preschool-ELL-2235631

Christmas puzzles are good for creativity, for problem solving and reasoning, and for developing motor skills. I created some to be used as a normal puzzle or they can be glued onto a construction paper for art work to be displayed in class.

 It is great that you do a read aloud in class with a Christmas Book. You might pair them or have them read silently. But, parents could be able to have the book at home. Prepare a class library where students can buy books or check them once a week for reading at home. 

Introduce art and review key vocabulary, giving a creative approach to your lesson planning for the Holidays. Don´t feel that this wasted time in your class, it is an opportunity to elicit language with this hands- on activity, reviewing the parts of the face and the clothes.

Art is an important means for self-expression (Wright, 2003)

I bought colored balloons and  cut the pieces. I glued them with silicon and see how they became the Christmas characters.

Have the children wear different character headbands.

Have all the snowmen get together in a group. Have all the other characters do the same.  When all the children are in groups, call some actions to perform.

Teacher: Snowmen, Jump !

Students wearing the snowman headband jump.

Teacher: Penguins, run !

Continue with more actions.

Or create a rope using a ribbon. 

Point to each Christmas Chracter and ask Who´s he ?

 You might have seen and participated in photo booths at weddings, but I like to incorporate it into the classroom. Have all the props ready. Say a Christmas word, the child finds the prop and pose saying the word.

I´ve noticed that you loved the Flashcards from last year. I made an update and completed 42 colored flashcards along with a black and white version.

Ask questions for each flashcard:

Teacher: Who´s this ?

Students: It´s Santa Claus

Teacher: What is this ?

                                            Students: It´s a Christmas Tree

Teacher: Who are they ?

Students: They are the Three Wise Men.

Have a group of students choose a puppet, come to the front of the classroom  and have their puppet greet the class.

Student: Hello! I am Santa.

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