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The complete resource for the insects unit is here: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Insects-Unit-for-Kindergarten-Holistic-English-Series-18-6984205 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. Print the jar template and glue it onto a lunch bag. Play guess what’s in the jar? Teacher: What’s in the jar? Students: a butterfly! Teacher: Yes! That’s right. The jar is fun for speaking! Use the cutouts to make patterns. They 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 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! 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 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. 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. Use the numbers flashcards for counting insects cuouts! Teacher: How many insects are there? Students: three! 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. 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. · 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. I used fun foam letters to have the students write words along each cutout. Use the flashcards to direct what the insects eat. Teacher: This is a butterfly. What does it eat? Students: a flower! Don't miss the blog post for the Games used for teaching the Insects. https://eflpreschoolteachers.blogspot.com/2021/07/insects-unit-games-for-teaching.html Check my Instagram Account to see the new resources on the making and the freebies announcements! https://www.instagram.com/rosamelia_eslteacher/
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The small cards are a good addition to your Weather Unit teaching materials. They are good for ELA teachers that work with small groups or online teaching several ESL children . These are picture and word small cards. I make them with colorful clipart for your young learners. Following are several games to play in class or for your students to work on their own. Link to the complete resource: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Weather-Unit-for-Kindergarten-Holistic-English-Series-19-7255772 Print the small cards that would suit your needs. Use them for listening activities in small groups such as listen, point and say. Take a look. The Weather Number cards for counting the numbers that are with the snowflakes. Students can also identify the plural of the sunrays. Ask questions: Teacher: What number is this? Student: ten. Teacher: How many sun rays are there? Student: ten. · The small cards make for individual work. Students can describe the weather conditions. Have your students write the words using magazines letters or draw the weather symbol. Ask questions: What's the weather like? Students: It's windy! Lots of more vocabulary to review here: snowflake,sun,raindrop,rain. Or simply cut the word from each small card and have the students match them all. If your students are older, cut each letter from the words and have them write each word. · Make a die! I glued the small cards onto a box and created a die to practice the emotions words related to the weather symbols. Students take turns to throw the die and mimic the emotion as they say it. Make your own die! Check the previous blog post related to the Weather unit flashcards and weather unit flashcards in Spanish.https://eflpreschoolteachers.blogspot.com/2021/09/weather-unit-flashcards-for-teaching.html Check my Instagram Account! https://www.instagram.com/rosamelia_eslteacher/ Follow me! There is more for the Weather unit resource.
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