Prepositions with a Tree and Kite in the Garden Unit

 These Tree and Kite Prepositions Activities help students move from learning vocabulary to building meaningful sentences. When combined with the rest of the Garden Unit, they create a complete ESL teaching system.🔗 Get the full Garden Unit here:: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Garden-Unit-for-Kindergarten-Holistic-English-Series-17-6914668

These Prepositions Activities with a Tree and Kite are part of a complete Garden Unit for Kindergarten English Language Learners, designed to help students understand and use prepositions of place through movement and interaction.  Prepositions can be difficult for young learners because they describe spatial relationships.Using a tree and a kite in a familiar garden setting gives students clear visual support.

Flashcards for Sentence Building

Students don’t just memorize words; they learn how to use them in sentences like using the flashcards:
“The kite is behind the tree.”
“The kite is flying above the tree.”

 Play Flashcard Hunt 

 Place flashcards around the classroom. Students walk around and find the kite based on verbal clues:
“Find the kite next to the tree.”

 Spin & Match with small cards activity 

Print the Spinner with prepositions + set of small cards. A student spins and says the preposition. Then they find and keep a matching picture card showing that preposition.

Color the Spot on the gardening Worksheet. 

Students roll the die and color the kite in the correct position on their worksheet.

Dice and Cutouts for preposition locations

Kindergarten students learn best through movement and play. Teachers can guide students to physically move kites or point to locations around a tree, reinforcing each preposition in a fun and meaningful way.

Students move along a path on the board game 

Each space shows a kite and a preposition. When they land on a spot, they can say a sentence using the preposition.

Games create real communication for the Nature Unit, go to the blog post:  https://eflpreschoolteachers.blogspot.com/2021/06/garden-unit-games-and-more-for.html 

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Insects Cutouts for teaching Kindergarten EFL

 These cutouts are part of a complete system that helps students learn and use vocabulary effectively. Turn your lesson into a complete ESL learning experience, here:    https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Insects-Unit-for-Kindergarten-Holistic-English-Series-18-6984205

These Insects Cutouts for Kindergarten ESL are part of a complete insects unit, designed to help students move from practicing vocabulary to actively using it through speaking and interaction. After learning vocabulary with flashcards and practicing with small cards, students are ready for the most important stage—using the language.This is the stage where students start speaking and using vocabulary naturally.

WHY CUTOUTS ARE SO POWERFUL

Insects Unit cutouts activities for the linguistic competence. The cutouts gives a chance to go deeper into the unit using different materials. Pictures help with understanding.

Play guess what’s in the jar?

 Print the jar template and glue it onto a lunch bag. 
Teacher: What’s in the jar?
Students: a butterfly!
Teacher: Yes! That’s right.

VIDEO: The jar is fun for questions and answers (real language use)

Make patterns with the cutouts

     These are important for the students to be able to describe them in a speaking mode, to reproduce them using the cutouts and to create a new pattern they wish.It's a way to experiment patterns in a new way. They will be able to follow a pattern that you say as well.

Students: big bee, small bee, big butterfly, small butterfly.

The patterns video:

Take a look on how I used the cutouts for big or small.

      Cutouts for -same and different-

Place several cutouts in a row. The first row will have the same insects. Point and have the students repeat with you.

Teacher:ant, ant, ant. They are the same!

The second row place a different cutout.

Teacher:bee, bee, dragonfly. Which one is different?

Students: dragonfly!

Cutouts for describing the body parts of an insect

      Place the insects cutouts on the board. Tell the students that all the insects have 6 legs and that you are going to count them together. Circle the legs afterwards.

      Where are the insects activities?

Use the flashcards to place the cutouts as to where you can find the insects. Here is a small chart that I made up as a guide.

Identify the location of an insect 

Use and model the word on. Place the cutouts on the flashcard to show where the insects can be found.

Teacher: The bee is on the leaf

Students: The butterfly is on the leaf.

Teacher: Where are the grasshoppers?

Students: They are on the grass.

Take a look!

Do more preposition work with the fireflies jars. Go to the blog post and see it: https://eflpreschoolteachers.blogspot.com/2024/04/fireflies-prepositions.html 

It is also included in this resource.

How many insects?

Do the same using the cutouts instead of the flashcards. Have the students describe the quantity using the numbers.

Students: There are five insects on the plant.

    Use the numbers flashcards for counting insects cuouts!

Teacher: How many insects are there?
Students: three!

Counting insects activity kindergarten ESL.Take a look!

       Just for fun make pencil toppers 

Just add a chenille to the cutouts and twist the chenille around the pencil. This would be the craft for this unit.

 make a beehive for colors review 

   Another idea is to make a beehive using toilet paper tubes inside a tissue box. Have the students match each bee to each space in the beehive.
Students: a red bee in the beehive.

       Sorting into jars! 

Print the jars and labels that you want to practice.

Sort by shapes.

Sort by type of insect.

Sort by color.

Sort by quantity.

  Sort by shapes of the insects 

·       I saw this idea and gave it a try, I have so many old CDs to recycle.

I covered each CD with construction paper and added a shape label to each one. I glued all the shapes insets to clothespin and had the students sort them out.

 Writing Insects Name 

I used fun foam letters to have the students write words along each cutout.

  What do insects eat?

Use the flashcards to direct what the insects eat.
Teacher: This is a butterfly. What does it eat?
Students: a flower!

WHY TEACHERS LOVE THIS

✔ Highly interactive
✔ Encourages speaking
✔ Easy to prepare
✔ Perfect for young learners

Check the complete insects unit ESL games kindergarten vocabulary resource, right here: 

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Birthday Unit Cutouts for Kindergarten ELL

 Link to -Birthday Unit Cutouts for Kindergarten ESL | Activities, Games & Prepositions for ELLs- for teaching Early Childhood Education ECE:   https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Birthday-Unit-for-Kindergarten-Holistic-English-Series-14-6655450

These birthday unit cutouts are perfect for hands-on learning, helping young learners practice vocabulary, follow directions, and build speaking skills through movement and play.

In this post, you’ll discover engaging ways to use cutouts to teach birthday vocabulary, prepositions, and numbers in a meaningful and memorable way.

Use the Birthday Unit cutouts as props to teach English online or in a classroom setting. It’s a just print, cut and go.

Birthday unit vocabulary Read and match activity

 Students will work on the listening skill of following directions. Write the birthday words on a big cardboard. Have the students match the cutouts to each word. Say the word and the student will pick the cutout and match it.

Birthday unit Prepositions of place activity 

Use them to teach or review prepositions.Start with the easy ones.

Teacher: Put the cake on the table.

Continue with more complex prepositions if your class is ready for it.  It can be under, next to.

Balloon Game Activity

Blow up some balloons and add a cutout to each one using masking tape. Write with sticky notes the words corresponding to each balloon. At your signal, the students grab a balloon and place it next to the corresponding word.Ask questions:

How many balloons can you see?

Students: five!

 Counting Activity with Cakes and Candles

Print all the mats 1 to 10. Use real candles or the cutouts to match the number for each cake. Have the students identify the number and place the candles.

Students: Six! Six candles. One, two, three, four, five six.

It is fun for the students to use real candles on the cakes.

A set of candles cutouts can be used for the same mats and to play many other games.

Cooperative Learning Activity

Review the numbers 1 to 10.Here is the set of number words for the students that are ready match the words to the quantities.

Birthday unit Number candle cutouts.

 use the cutouts to have the students match real candles to the number.

Pointer Craft Activity

Make with your students these pointers. Just print, cut and paste. Add some plastic gems or any other thing.

Teacher: Point to the balloon!

There you go, student motivation.

 ESL hOLIDAYS & BIRTHDAY Wrap-Up Activities for Kids, blog post here:   https://eflpreschoolteachers.blogspot.com/2021/03/birthday-unit-wrap-up-for-kindergarten.html

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