Color Splotches Palette for Kindergarten ESL

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Hands-on activities are one of the most effective ways to teach colors to preschool ESL learners. Using visual and interactive materials like color splotches helps students connect vocabulary with meaning while staying engaged.

In this Colors Unit for Preschool ESL, these color splotches activities provide multiple ways for students to practice color vocabulary through matching, games, puzzles, and worksheets.

This resource is part of a complete Colors Unit that includes flashcards, small cards, worksheets, games, and a printable book — everything you need for engaging, low-prep ESL lessons.

The Color Splotches Flashcards are a fun and effective way to engage the ELLs in learning English vocabulary.

Label the splotches 

Place one or several splotch flashcards on the board and have the students come up and write the color word next to each one.

 Flashcard Practice and Speaking

Using the color splotches flashcards, students can practice saying the color names aloud. Repetition and visual support help build confidence and improve pronunciation.

Matching Activities

Create a matching game using the colored flashcard or the B/w worksheet. Have the splotches ready to match to each space on the worksheet.

Color recognition

 Have students identify and color the splotches as you name them: Color red!

Students can fill in each word as prewriting activity.

Color Splotches Puzzle

Invite the kindergarten ELL students to match each color splotch to its identical pair. Encourage them to say the color names aloud as they find matches. Repeat the puzzle activity regularly to reinforce color vocabulary and recognition.

Bingo Game

 Give each student a bingo grid card and have them color the five splotches in any way they wish. Call out the names of colors randomly, one at a time. As you call out each color, students check their bingo grids to see if they have that color. If they do, they will check corresponding square with a marker. The first student to fill their entire bingo grid shouts "Bingo!" and wins the game.

Cutouts and Writing Practice

 Reinforce color vocabulary using the splotches cutouts besides the color words in color and b/w. Start the matching game.

Color words worksheets.

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Valentine's Day is part of the complete colors pack, go to the blog post:   https://eflpreschoolteachers.blogspot.com/2024/01/valentines-day-and-colors-unit-for.html

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Valentine’s Day and the Colors Unit for Kindergarten English Language Learners

 This resource is included in The Colors Unit for Kindergarten-Holistic English Series #2. Find it at this link: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Colors-Unit-for-Kindergarten-Holistic-English-Series-2-5956256

Drill the color words with the heart flashcards. Encourage students to say the color words aloud.

Play lip reading. Saw this game and think it’s quite cute. Show a flashcard at a time and silently mouth the color of the heart. Have the students say it as loud as possible!

Games will help reinforce grammar points if you feel it necessary for the group. You can play the color bingo as a grammar bingo. When you call the bingo say a complete sentence like: It’s a red heart!

Students will color the hearts any way they want in the playing colors. That will be their game card.

Print and play Color DOMINO! Little colored hearts to engage your preschoolers to analyze them and make connections to place them correctly enhancing their critical thinking skills.

Board games are so much fun for the students to use the language they know in the Valentine’s Day context. They will use the language to play in order to advance in the board circuit.

This is a color word mat for your students to recognize all the colors words from the unit. Students will name the color as they place the word strip on each heart.

And just three more esl colors worksheets to complete the unit. Kindergarteners learn best through hands-on activities, and interactive experiences. They will complete the worksheet and then create a garland to take home for decoration.

The pockets charts can be used in a group, they are big enough to be placed on the device or on a table. They can all participate, making it a collaborative learning activity.

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Christmas and the Color Unit for Kindergarten ELL

  This resource is included in the Color unit designed for Preschool-Kindergarten English Language Learners. Link to the resource:

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Find a complete set of flexible teaching materials for those lovely Holidays!

Christmas and Colors Flashcards. I used the light bulb theme for reviewing the colors during the Christmas Season.

 The flashcards are used to engage students into speaking and listening activities.

Review the colors using the Light bulb colors flashcards.

 Teacher: What color is it?

Students: It's blue!

There is a set of flashcards and esl colors worksheets with the light bulb theme but these are Christmas Characters. Use them as a listen and color activity.

Another set of worksheets for more practice. The worksheets are adaptable to the needs and abilities of each group or students.

Printables games for Christmas.
Christmas Domino to review the colors and enhance visual learning, promoting better retention of the new vocabulary.

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Christmas unit board game that's easy to print and play. This kind of games encourage communication as students talk to each other in order to advance on the board.

and a Christmas BINGO game to review the colors in a fun way.

Take a look! Students will practice listening to the color words and improve their comprehension.

Use the cards to play matching the color word set that comes in the resources to the light bulb.

This printable book is the perfect way to wrap up your colors unit and help students apply what they have learned in a meaningful way.  Check the blog post for more of this resource:   https://eflpreschoolteachers.blogspot.com/2023/10/colors-unit-printable-class-book-for.html

                                        

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Thanksgiving and emotions printable resources.

                  This resource is included in the  Emotions Unit for Kindergarten-Holistic English Series #7. It is available at this link:

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Start with the set of flashcards. They provide a context for learning the new vocabulary within the emotions unit, making learning relevant.

There is a set of small cards that doubles for a sorting game. They are great for small groups or for Online Education. Provide the cards as a way to play around this cultural celebration mainly in the USA.

Thanksgiving Emotions Bingo Game to play as a way to introduce students to the cultural aspects of this celebration.

Create a fun bowling game with water bottles filled with shredded paper. A fun and easy game to help the students understand the customs and practices of this specific English-speaking society.

A fun coloring turkey with dotted lines to transform into a mask for role play activities.

Two Thanksgiving Emotions worksheets for kindergaten learners to wrap up the Holiday. Then, make craft stick puppets!

Find kindergarten ESL emotions unit activities and games with flashcards, small cards and cutouts, right here:   https://eflpreschoolteachers.blogspot.com/2020/09/emotions-theme-for-kindergarten.html

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Thanksgiving Shapes for Kindergarten EFL

 This resource is part of Shapes Unit for Kindergarten-Holistic English Series #5. It is available here:     https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Shapes-Unit-for-Kindergarten-Holistic-English-Series-5-6027401

Right after Halloween we start planning Thanksgiving for our students.Here are several resources.

Grab the set of Thanksgiving Shapes flashcards. They are great for Vocabulary building, to introduce or reinforce the new Holiday words but within the shapes. It is a perfect visual aid to help your students associate the shape to the Holiday word.

Teacher: What shape is this?

Students: a triangle! 

Teacher: What is this?

Students: a pumpkin! 

Teacher: It's a triangle pumpkin.

If your group is small and you just need smaller cards for online teaching, here is the set. Sometimes bringing in smaller cards motivates your EFL learners to continue learning.

A little practice using the Thanksgiving worksheets for a thematic integration if you are teaching shapes during the Holiday season.It will match your current content making language learning more contextually relevant. You can do a listen and color as my example and then have the students match the turkeys to the basic shapes. 

Get ready to play Bingo! You know the drill, the students get to create thier own Bingo Board by cutting and gluing the items they want on their template. Enjoy the game!

Use the cards for sorting the Thanksgiving shapes. This is another way to have the students actively participate.

And a Thanksgiving puzzle to wrap it up. Students will be focused on matching by items or by shapes.

These shapes crafts and holiday activities are perfect for preschool ESL, kindergarten EFL, literacy centers, speaking practice, math lessons, classroom celebrations, vocabulary review, and hands-on learning for young English learners. go here:   https://eflpreschoolteachers.blogspot.com/2020/09/shapes-theme-for-kindergarten-holistic.html

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