I realize I haven't posted much about Zahavah's units lately. Truth is, I've had to scale them back to both my and her disappointment. We ...

This is the next part of the Pets unit Resource. CUTOUTS to teach Preschool and Kindergarten English Language Learners in the classroom! LINK:https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Pets-Unit-for-Kindergarten-Holistic-English-Series-16-6837926 Pets Unit Cutouts. Use them for review, they are small for the student’s little hands or for online as well. These cutouts help with the linguistic competence of communicating verbally in English. Place the cutouts on the board or a table. Ask the students what they want? Each student will come to the front grab a cutout and say the sentence that you have modeled. Teacher: I want a dog (grab a dog and hug it) Student: I want a fish. (grabs the fish)                                     Pets Cutouts and shapes set. Students will associate the pets to their homes. Teacher: Where are the dogs?            Students: They are in the house. There are several sets, but I made only two examples. This is the bird one. I used the cage to add a little crafting as it is to glue yarn on the cage. There are the colored birds and the black/white ones for you to choose from. Name the bird that students have to put inside the cage. There are three options to do it. Teacher: Put the yellow bird in the cage. Or, Put the big yellow bird in the cage. Or, put the big, circle, yellow bird in the cage.  You can also put the birds in the cage and have the students point to them. Teacher: show me the big triangle bird.                 Give instructions to the students:  The other example is with the fish aquarium. The same goes with these cutouts. Students can use this grammar structure: Look! This is my triangle fish. Take a look! Pets Unit Finger Puppets are not frequently used in the English Language classroom. Some teachers don’t know much how to use them or don’t have the time to make them. The puppets can impulse speaking. I glued the pets onto a wash glove. It’s fast and easy to make. There will be a video on the blog post to see the puppets in action. I recycled old CDs and glued a pet cutout onto each one besides adding a craft stick. Small enough for online. I used them for speaking! Take a listen. I also recycle French fries containers for sorting. This is the BIG and small sorting of the pets. My example is with rabbits and birds. Use them all or just a few sets. I added fun foam letters and foil letter to each container. And here is the sorting into shapes. Take a look! Organize the cutouts into Mommy and baby for each pet. Students will make sentences to relate the mother with the baby pet: The rabbit is next to the bunny. Use the labels for the students that are ready to read the words. Feed me box/bottles. I made mine using 7 lts. Water bottle. Have the students feed each animal the food that they can eat. Check the chart. Use this as a speaking activity!                                                                                                              A list of what pets can eat.  Prepare the pets headbands either by printing the colored ones or having the students prepare their own. There is more to this resource. Check the games for Pets unit!!  https://eflpreschoolteachers.blogspot.com/2021/05/pets-unit-games-printable-book-and-more.html Check my Instagram Account.    https://www.instagram.com/rosamelia_eslteacher/  Follow me!!

This resource is included in the Pets Unit for Elementary ELL -Starters. Use these to give your K-2 English students a variety of activiti...

Tackle multiple skills at once while aligning this activity to the Creative Curriculum for Preschool: Pets Unit.* Encourage children's expressive language by encouraging them to identify the different types of animals they see.* Teach students to sort and classify by categories!* Encourage students ...

Pets theme activities, printables, centers and games for preschool, pre-K and Kindergarten.

Starting with the Pets Unit Flashcards and activities on how to use them for introducing the new vocabularyof the unit and impulse speaking.This unit is an opportunity to learn about animals and promote creative thinking. LINK to the complete resource:   https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Pets-Unit-for-Kindergarten-Holistic-English-Series-16-6837926 Use the Animals Pets unit Flashcards to identify and describe the pets using the verb to be. Students will learn the pets vocabulary.You can find the dog,frog,turtle,hamster,bird, rabbit, mouse,fish and cat among others. Place the pets flashcards in random order one on top of the other on the board and have the students guess the animal.  Teacher: What’s this? Students: cat! Teacher: What color is the cat? Students: black and white. Teacher: It's a black and white cat. Place all the flashcards on the board and have the students name them all using a pointer. Students can sort all the same animals under each column. Learning and thinking comes as they find similarities and differences between the animals.  Also use them to have the students say the animal sounds. Model some sentences: The bird is blue. The bird isn´t green. Play Show me! Use the flashcards for graph as recording information the board. Place the color flashcards on the board and have the students sort all the pets into colors. Sorting helps with attention and memory. When it is done, ask questions. Teacher: Which pets are blue? Students: fish! Bird! Teacher: What color is the fish? Students: purple! Ask yes/no questions! A little counting. Students need to experience numbers in different ways. Use the see flashcard to get the meaning across of the structure: How many (pets) do you see? Place the flashcards in random number order on the board. Have them count with you and write the number of pets that on the flashcard. Teacher: (Show the see flashcard or point to it on the board) How many fish can you see? Students: one, two, three, four! Four fish! Use these flashcards to review the structure: What are these? Let’s do BIG or small. Learning and using adjectives will make their sentences more meaningful as they can describe the pet's size. I used the words on the flashcards for the baby animals as I see on most text books. I can do any other word if needed. Divide the board in two sections. Write the words big and small. Review with your students the words. Tell them to place the flashcards on the section that they belong. Then, use a marker or chalk and trace a line from the big bird to the birdie. Students can help you with this. Use these flashcards to do the mommy-baby relationship with fishy,kitten,bunny,birdie,puppy. Students will associate the baby pets with their mothers.Some will say cats and baby cats. Show the students the like flashcard and the don’t like flashcard. Have them imitate the faces for each one. Place these flashcards on the board. Have the students pick a pet that they like and one that they don’t like and place them on the corresponding part of the board.   Teacher: Do you like birds? Student: Yes, I do.Ask questions with do as they place their cards. This is a way for the students to express their likes and dislikes. Student: I don't like cats! Then graph the results with the class. Show students how to read a graph and ask questions about it. Students can express what pet they have. Graph as students talk about their belongings. Pedro: I have a bird. All pets have a name. Place the pets flashcards on the board and have them give a name to all the pets and write them. Students: A cat. Teacher: What’s its name? Students: Lola. Teacher: What’s this ? Ask your students about the name their pets have. Review the shapes with these pets flashcards. Have the students differentiate the pets. Students will separate the pets based on their similarities. Draw the 4 shapes on the board and divide into sections. Hand in the pets and have the students sort the pets on the board according to its shape. When all the pets are placed ask questions. Teacher: What shape is this? Students: rectangle! Teacher: Let’s name the animals here. ( point as the students name them) Students: rabbit, cat, frog, fish, turtle, bird, mouse, dog. Introduce the grammar point: I want and - or He/She wants. Place all the flashcards on the board.  Introduce the first flashcard: Wendy (pointing to the girl) wants a bird (point to the bird) Continue with the help of the class with all the other children. You can also ask questions. Teacher: What pet does Kay want? Students: a fish! Teacher: Kay wants a fish! Teach students how to express their own wants. Teacher: What do you want? Have is another word to introduce for the simple present. Choose several students to come to the front. Hand in a flashcard to each one and show it to the class. Have them take one step forward and say the sentence that have modeled. Student: I have a hamster. Ask questions: Teacher: Who has a fish? Students: Mary! Teacher: What does Billy have? Students: a cat!                               Use the flashcards as well. Ask questions: Teacher: Do you have a cat? Student: Yes, I do. Use the possessive pronoun: my. Student: This is my fish! Students can bring a picture of their pets and you can do this activity using those instead of the flashcards. You can also make a graph asking the same question. Tell students that the family members also have pets! Ask about how the family members take care of pets.  Place a family member flashcard along with a pet flashcard on the board. Model a sentence. Teacher: Grandma has a rabbit. Students: Grandpa has a cat. Ask questions: Teacher: What pet does Mom have? Students: A dog. Name a pet and students say the family member that has it. Teacher: frog! Students: Dad! Say the family member and the students name the pet that person has. Teacher: Brother! Students: Iguana! Tell students that pets move using the flashcards: fly,swim,jump,walk,eat.   They will identify the animal movements.    Have them share what they know on how their pets move and perform the action. Place one by one the action flashcards on the board. Say the action and have your students do the action. Teacher: What is this? Students: a bird! Teacher: How does the bird move? It flys!! ( perform the fly action) Students: fly ! fly! Fly! (have the students perform and say the word three times). You can also use the TPR action as Flap like a bird or swim like a turtle. Add some sentences using can.  Teacher: The fish can swim!! Students will be able to identify how the pets move. Teacher: Can a cat walk? Students: Yes, it can. Teacher: Can a dog fly? Students: No, it can't. These flashcards can work for Commands. There is another one. Wash! Bring in some plastic dogs into the class, add some dirt on it and have the students to actually wash it. Tell the students that the pets have a place as a home or a habitat.They should be able to associatepets with their homes. Explain about the characteristics of each one. Place the pets flashcards on the board and then one by one the pets home. Teacher: What’s this? Students: a hamster. Teacher: This is the hamster’s home. A hamster cage. Students: A hamster cage.Continue with the all the pets. Teacher: What home is this? A rabbit’s. Teacher: Where does the rabbit live? Students: In a rabbit cage. Pets eat!  Students will identify, classify and describe the food  or drinks for eachpet.  I did a little research on what pets eat. I will leave a note on that here. Place a pet on the board and have the students guess what they eat as you have all the food flashcards on the board ledge for the students to see. Teacher: This is a turtle. What does it eat? Students: tomato! Teacher: YES! Students: milk! Teacher: NO!Place the correct ones next to the pet. Continue with all the other ones. The pets have emotions. Have the students sort the animals according to the emotion. Then, say a pet’s emotions and have a student come and take it off the board. Teacher: Gina, a sad dog! The pets have a body. Place any flashcard on the board and with your students have them name the body parts that they know and introduce the new body parts that belong to that pet. I made my example with the bird.The body parts would include: tail, paw, fin, wing. Ask questions. How many legs does the bird have?                       Students: two. Students can describe the pets on the flashcards and talk about what sounds animals make. Place several flashcards on the board and see what sounds do the students know. Review the numbers using the frog numbers flashcards. Teacher: What number is this? Students: five!These flashcards can be used to place them in order on the board. Follow me on Instagram! https://www.instagram.com/rosamelia_eslteacher/ The pets unit resource still has a lot more. Follow me for more!

This is the last blog post related to the Pets Unit that can be used with ESOL K-5 . The complete reource is at the TPT store. LINK: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Pets-Unit-for-Kindergarten-Holistic-English-Series-16-6837926 Find more ELL ideas! Pets Unit Crafts will bring cognitive development to your students and agility for the future activities in your class. Students will inmediately engage with all the craft materials and instructions. I love to see sun catchers on social media that I had to make one for the bird. With the cute dogs make a door hanger with the student’s name. Pets Unit Rewards will definitely reinforce good behavior in your class but always state clearly the behavior that you want to encourage in class. It can be completing the assign work or to speak in English in class.   I made 8 pets cards. You can write on the card the name of the student and make a chart in class. You can also hand in the pet to the student in each class and have them collect the pets, as you say: Carlos, this is your pet for today because you did a good job in class today. HOLIDAYS: EASTER A printable and easy Number Matching card Game. And for extra practice use these two Easter Bunnies worksheets.Dictate the color of each number quantity of bunnies. Teacher: Find number one! Color the bunny blue. After the worksheets are done, cut the worksheets into stripes and have the students order the bunnies in number sequence. HOLIDAYS: Christmas Just a short printable book about a Christmas Frog. Use the colored version or the coloring one. Students can add wiggly eyes, glitter and any other embellishments. Take a look at the video! Take a look at the blog post about the Pets unit cutouts:   https://eflpreschoolteachers.blogspot.com/2021/05/pets-unit-cutouts-for-kindergarten-esl.html   Go to my Instagram account: https://www.instagram.com/rosamelia_eslteacher/

Use for homework or in small group activity! I made one with the line to support students who need a little extra help with measuring to the top and one without. What's Inside: 2 measurement pages--> one with the line at the top of each animal --> one without the line at the top of each animal...

Venn diagram of cats & dogs hand drawn.

Let's Play.Learn.Grow is a blog sharing play based learning activities and ideas for babies, toddlers, preschoolers and school aged children.

Am I a Pet Book beginning readers book that you print for kids

The fun part of the lesson plan, the production.Games and more for the Pets unitfor Kindergarten English Language Learner. Link to the complete resource: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Pets-Unit-for-Kindergarten-Holistic-English-Series-16-6837926 Pets Unit Book. Use this printable book to stimulate the pets vocabulary along with print knowledge that might differ depending on the native language of your students. Have your students learn to read high frequency words, which is like . Having their book to take home to reread with the parents will help with the overall oral language development. Reading is another linguistic competence to develop along the unit. There are sets of pages. One is all done just to color. The other one is cut and paste the food that pets eat. Games: Pets Unit BINGO! This is a teaching tool that you can use many times in your class, as you can print many student’s templates or save the template for other lessons. There are 10 student's bingo cards. Print the teacher’s calling cards double and you have a memory game. Pets unit Game Board. Play is learning. Engage your students with this hands on game. Print a letter size game or print the two parts of the game board to have a bigger one depending on your classroom. Pets unit Domino will make your students pay attention in order to win working on their visual perception. Take a look! File Folder Games are for extra review. If you have a student that finishes the assigned activity on the textbook before the rest of the class or is not really engaged, pull out the file folder to keep that student active in learning.  There are 6 colored doghouses and a small printable worksheet for the students to color. They will cut the dogs and match them to the corresponding house. This set of printable pets and numbers game is aimed to help your students understand the one-to-one correspondence in English. Another file folder game is this one with frogs! There is a number word mat and frog cards to match to the words. Or cut up the words and the numbers and you have a card matching number game. Use the number mat and match the number words cards. As you can see different ways to review the number s 1 to 10 with these frogs. A similar one with rabbits holding a number in the hands. More animals to do the same matching activity. Counting the fish in the fishbowls. Then, the birds with a singing note to count. Counting turtle spots on the number matching mat. This file folder game set is with matching colors to develop vocabulary. This is the dog version.  and the rabbit version! There are also parrots and snakes in different colors to matching with the color word. Pets Unit Pocket charts can be used individually, with another classmates or with you. Even spelling can be started. Dogs Counting mats. They are perfect to review numbers 1 to 10. You can use play dough bones made by your students or just print the ones I have ready. Print the mats and place them inside a clear plastic sheet. Hand in the counting mats, one to each student in random order and put the bones on a bowl in front of the students. Students will read and say the number on their mats and get the bones to place on the bowl. Students can then trade their mats with another student. Take a look! Number Game with frogs. There are also worksheets that follow along. This is just a matching game. And use the same cards and count fish in a fishbowl. A simple Pets unit puzzle, take it out and the students work on their own. The half card game for the pets unit can be used as a puzzle or as a speaking activity. Hand in all half card to the students in random order. Have them walk around asking their classmates for the other half. I also added the template to complete as a puzzle. Make masks and play What am I? It can also be used for online teaching! Take a look at the  blog post related to pets unit flashcards! Subscribe to my newsletter with all the freebies of the week to teach Kindergarten English Language Learners. You can download them now! https://mailchi.mp/f4b63f9d53f5/explore-the-new-freebies-of-the-week Check out my Instagram Account! https://www.instagram.com/rosamelia_eslteacher/ A lot to print and prepare for your class. Follow me!

Count the number of pets in each box and write the correct number in the space provided. This free numbers worksheet focuses on the number from 1 to 5.

This rhyming song is fun for a pet store theme. Build phonological awareness in a playful way through singing with young children.

Here are some songs to get your kids singing and moving during your Pets Theme. This is a curated list of songs from YouTube. Rags, by Jack Hartmann A

Favorite themes for curriculum activities, ideas and lesson planning for preschool and pre-k children, teachers and parents.

Set up a pet blocks & STEM area to further learning in the preschool, pre-k, and kindergarten students.

Let's Play.Learn.Grow is a blog sharing play based learning activities and ideas for babies, toddlers, preschoolers and school aged children.

These Spots on the Puppy Math Mats can be used to teach counting during a Pets Theme. How to Prepare the Puppy Counting Mats Print out the set of mats and

Pets theme activities, printables, centers and games for preschool, pre-K and Kindergarten.