Numbers Theme Cutouts and Games for Kindergarten ELL

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This post focuses on the production stage of a complete Numbers 1–10 Unit for Kindergarten English Language Learners. At this stage, students move beyond recognition and practice—they begin to use numbers actively through games, interaction, and speaking.  This is where real learning happens.

These games and cutouts are not isolated activities. They are designed to work after the presentation (flashcards) and practice (worksheets) stages, creating a complete and structured learning progression.

The fun part of the lesson, the activities. Here are just a few of the many things that you can do with numbers and get those kids speaking.

Use of the Cutouts in Games

These cutouts  are tools for interaction and communication. tudents can manipulate, move, and use them in different contexts, which is essential for young learners.

I placed a magnet behind each number to use on a magnetic whiteboard for online teaching. You can make your own cutouts using numbers from magazines. Make a number line using the cutouts as your first activity.

 

Take a look!

          Use magnetic numbers to match the cutout to a number.

I punched colored circles to correspond with the cutouts.

Play with a small flyswatter and the cutouts.

Interactive games with the Printable Cutouts

 

I glued the numbers onto recycled CDs. They can be used for online teaching as well. Have the students match the amount of balls to each number.

 A video on how to use these cutouts for online teaching.

Feed me box and Cutouts 

 I made my feed me box with a recycled cake mix box. I covered the front with paper and then glued the animal cutout. Have all the cutouts ready.  Teacher: Feed Number 5 to the ground hog.

A video on how I used it.

I added this other feed me box template! A pencil case, just to review in a way the previous school unit.

This encourages students to recognize, say, and use numbers in context, reinforcing what they learned in the previous stages. Take a look!

Numbers 1 to 10 Bingo is always a favorite and it can be done in class or online.

Print all the numbers 1 to 10 (calling cards)in each color that you would like to play with. You can choose the colors that you want to review. I recycled a gift bag and placed all the cards into the bag for calling the numbers. Give your students the numbers template. Students will color the numbers anyway they want and that will be their Bingo board.

 Half Card Game

 Students can work in small groups putting the cards together to make a number.  Games increase motivation and participation.

Board games never let you down

 Easy to use and fun for your students. At this stage of the lesson plan, students enter the games with confidence.

Matching Number games that your students can do in small groups with little supervision from you. Students are ready to use the language instead of guessing.

This is where students USE the language, this is a video of the gumball machine card game.

Numbers 1 to 10 Puzzles are fun for your younger students. They can say the number after they complete a number. This kind of games to develop speaking and confidence.

Printable Book for the Numbers 1 to 10.  Students color the numbers as indicated in the sentence. They also trace the sentences. Assemble the book and practice reading.  I assembled mine creating a standing fold. It took a lot of measuring but in the end it turned out easy.

 Take a look of the video on how to use the book for distance learning.

Here are the pages of the book.

Why insert these books in the lesson plan?

Instead of using a worksheet once and moving on, you can transform the same materials into review activities, warm-ups and Centers. Go to the blog post:     https://eflpreschoolteachers.blogspot.com/2020/09/numbers-theme-for-kindergarten-holistic_10.html

Here I am working on the book to make my example for Instagram. 

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Recycle old ESL Early Childhood Textbooks

As a teacher, I have had so many teacher´s book, student´s book, workbook and from different grade, levels and so on. I saw how the children threw them away at the end of the school year. I used to give them away for paper recycling but those places are not around anymore. Old textbooks are not good for donations, since the Publishing Companies come out with different series every year.

I still have several from my teaching days and decided to invent something. This is how it went with my Early Childhood and Elementary Series Textbooks.

Toilet paper roll puppets. I cut out the teacher, boy and girl pictures and glued it onto each toilet paper roll. It is an easy puppet that can be used for greeting each student. It can also be used for the students to line up as boy or girl.

Make puzzles using craft stick. This is more like a decoupage thing. I cutout all the prepositions pictures. I glued them onto craft sticks. Wait until it is dry and then add glue all over the craft stick and picture. Set aside to dry. Using an Xacto knife separate each craft stick from the picture. Place all the craft sticks in a bag and have the students put them all together and say a sentence for each puzzle done.

Craft stick puppets. I cut out all the animals and glued onto a bigger craft stick to make puppets. I could use them as flashcards to drill vocabulary.

Make a wreath. I grabbed the whole Nature unit with lots of garden cutouts for the children to find and cut. I gave them a wreath made out of a paper plate. Children glue the flowers onto the wreath and hang them in class.

Color book. I cut all the pictures from an old textbook and had the children sort them by color. After they all glued by color I placed a book ring.

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