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Saturday, October 26, 2019

Weather Unit Resources for Preschool ESL

LINK to the Weather Unit resource.Just the basics to prepare your lesson plan if you have English Language Learners in your class. https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Weather-Activities-for-EFL-Learners-703999

Activities and games to build vocabulary for seasons, weather words & simple sentences
Ideal for kindergarten & 1st grade ESL students!

Weather Graph: it´s easier to do graphs when you have small groups, but when you have more than 30 children in a class you can still do it but have everything ready. Use the cutouts or the weather puppets. Collecting data and organizing it can be done in a variety of ways. Comparing results makes the vocabulary meaningful to the students.

Weather puppets to engage preschoolers through play and creativity.

Have the students create their puppets or have some ready to use. Show each weather puppet and ask:How´s the weather ? Ss: It´s sunny.
Ask another question: Do you like sunny weather ? Ss: Yes !

Besides having the puppets , wear a Weather Crown. Make it for you or for the child(ren) out of construction paper. Your students will love the special crown.

And some paper glasses will be fun,too. Send me email if you want the template for free.

Learning nursery rhymes as children immerses them in the culture of the language, besides it helps with pronunciation, vocabulary and the language rhythm .Send in the rhyme paper home so parents can sing it along.

Craft projects benefit students by applying English to art. It makes weather vocabulary easy to remember.

You can use my weather dial or design your own. Have yellow tissue paper for making the little balls for the sun, silver glitter for the snow, cotton balls for the clouds. Have the students identify each weather symbol. Help the students assemble the wheel. After the dial is ready, name a weather word and have the students move then arrow to the symbol and repeat the word. Have them look out and say How´s the weather today ? and point to the arrow towards that symbol. If you want this file, write an email: ei98srl@gmail.com and I´ll send it to you.

I love my pocket chart, it can be used for every class. It not only saves you time as you are not writing on the board and it is very interactive, since any child can place the weather strip on the pocket chart every day.

And no lesson is complete without a book.Students practice describing the weather in simple sentences.

Just three Weather worksheets to add up to the theme.

worksheet 1: The first page of all my worksheets are flashcards. It´s a simple resource, but we never have enough for each child. That´s why I created this page as a flashcards for all of your visual learners. Children will color them as you guide them or as they wish and make them colorful. I also include the written word that is traceable.

Use them to present, practice or recycle the weather words. Prepare some games that be carried out in small groups. Then can take them home and play with their parents.

You can place them on cardboard to make sure you can't see through them.

And for your kinesthetic students use TPR activities: Stick the flashcards around the room and say a word and have the students point to it. Students can act as teachers and give the instructions .

worksheet 2: Children need to talk about numbers at the very beginning. Let them experiment with basic math concepts and the language of math. I drew a raindrop onto paper and then traced it onto fun foam to create a raindrop to glue onto a yogurt bottle cap. That way I created a stamp to color the umbrella. Then, I had the students cut the raindrop numbers and the umbrella. I had then glue all the pieces onto colored paper and place the raindrops in a number sequence. Students can also place them on the umbrella or on the ground. The possibilities are many.

worksheet 3: Enhancing children understanding of the weather is teaching beginning science concepts. I placed children in 4 different weather scene to be matched to the correct weather item.

worksheet activity 1. Have children match the weather from each flashcard from worksheet 1 to the children in each weather scene in worksheet 3. They can glue together each set onto different color cardboard.

worksheet activity 2. Since the flashcards are big and the weather cards for the worksheet 3 are small you can do a sorting activity into big and small.

And to add up to this unit I made the letter arts and crafts. Link:

http://eflpreschoolteachers.blogspot.com/2017/09/letters-arts-and-crafts-collection.html

SO, what is new?

First a game board. Just to add a little cooperative learning to the ESL classroom setting. I taped a metal clip that I opened onto each game marker. Students say the name of the weather where they land and say the numbers of the die as they move on the squares.

Mobile! The good thing about them is that they go with theme and can be done with anything, I used a hanger and half of a plastic plate. Even though they are simple to make so children might need assistance and that is a chance for you to speak about the vocabulary words. After all it is a nice decoration for the classroom.

After they are done, students can say all the vocabulary words as they point to them. Here is a short video.

I haven’t created more awards in all this time. I saw these tickets and thought of how it is for children to receive an award. Give them at the end of the lesson assessment.

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Wednesday, October 14, 2015

Adjectives for Preschool ELL

This was a hard blog post. I had to research all the adjectives that are commonly used along the book series for preschool. I only picked the most common.

Link to the resources:

https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Adjectives-for-Preschool-ELL-2144643

The resource is also available here: https://www.bilingualmarketplace.com/products/adjectives-for-kindergarten-esl?variant=37330285625508

Big and small. Give children the worksheet. Have them cut out pictures from magazines or draw pictures in both size.

Review colors to describe things. Make color puppets with the color splotches. Place them next to an object and have them say phrases or complete sentences.

Teacher: a blue book.

To introduce physical appearance I made this set of Monster Cards. They have a number on each.

Place all 12 cards on the board and describe a monster. This is a good listening and speaking activity.

Teacher: He is tall and fat. He has three eyes and two ears. He has a big nose. He is green. He has two long arms and two short legs

Students: Number 10.

Teacher: Number 6.

Students: She is tall and thin. She is purple. She has 4 eyes. She has four arms and 4 hands. She has 5 legs. She has two big white teeth.

More activities with the cards:

Separate the class into 12 groups. Hand in a monster card to each group.

Describe a monster and the group who has the monster shouts and shows the card.

I made a Monster book using as many adjectives I could.

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Wednesday, March 4, 2015

Seasons for Preschool ELL

Seasons Flashcards: Don´t just go for rote memorization of the flashcards.

Try interactive flashcards games.

Link to the resources:

https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Seasons-Resources-for-Preschool-ELL-1744867

or here:

https://www.bilingualmarketplace.com/products/seasons-resources-for-preschool-esl?variant=14538803871793

Watch the complete resource:

I added 18 worksheets. Check how I worked with them.LINK to the worksheets:

https://eflpreschoolteachers.blogspot.com/2019/05/seasons-unit-worksheets-for-preschool.html

Graph: give the children the chance to read, interpret and analyze information, in English. Tell the children that with the graph they find out the favorite season of the year of the students in the class.

I always use cutouts in the lesson.

It has endless possibilities.Hang them up as decoration!

or sort them into big or small.

or make a pattern, big/small.

And more ... make bracelets. Give each child a bracelet. Have them color as they wish.Put a tape to close the bracelet.

Teacher: Who has a yellow sun ?
Students raise their hands and show their bracelets.
Continue with all the other bracelets.
Then, have the children walk around the classroom and find classmates that have the same bracelets and stand together in a group.
Teacher: Where is the sun group ?
Students show their bracelets as a group.

Color the scene.Children can color the scene as you dictate or as a free activity.

I love to make paper bag puppets. I have quite a collection. I can send them to your mail for free. (ei98srl@gmail.com)

The snowman has clothes. Print the snowman onto white colored cardboard and the clothes onto each colored cardboard.
I used a file folder to glue the white snowmand and a place two cd envelope on the side to hold the clothes.
Teacher: The snowman has a blue hat, a blue scarf and blue shoes.
Students in groups find the clothes as fast as they can and dress the snowman.
Teacher: The snowman has a blue hat, a yellow scarf and red shoes.

Let´s make a crown! Print a set of leaves in each color that you want to review. Get some white plates and write each color word with the same color marker. Have the children sort all the leaves.