LINK to the Birthday unit resource that can be used with first graders: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Birthday-Theme-Resources-for-Elementary-ELL-2101105 There is more for the Birthday unit here: https://eflelementaryresources.blogspot.com/2020/02/birthday-unit-for-esl.html Birthday party vocabulary Flashcards. They are still effective tools for the class. Plan motivating games with the theme for independent learning or for groups. Place the flashcards on the board. Point to the cake. Teacher: Cake. It’s a cake. Birthday has Flashcards. A set of boys and girls going to a party with a gift and party hat or balloons. Place them on the board and write any set of numbers that you want to review. I choose from the 20’s to the 40.Ask as many questions as you can. Teacher: What does number 21 have? Students: He has a hat. Teacher: What color is the hat? Students: It is red, purple and yellow. Birthday Vocabulary Spelling. Use the cupcake letter tiles to build the theme´s vocabulary words and review the ones from previous units. Each student of group of students can have a set of letters. · Children can line up the tiles in alphabetical order. Make it a contest. · Place the flashcards in a visible place and have students build the words. · Have children build new words in an allotted time. See which group has built the more correct words. Birthday Cupcake small book. Creating their own books will develop a positive attitude towards reading. In the doing, it will involve that children will be motivated as they will own a book that they will be able to read at home. It will enhance their narrative skill by telling the story to their parents. Birthday cutouts for introducing prepositions. Print and cutout the birthday cutouts to introduce prepositions. Place the table cutout in the middle of the board. Teacher: What is this? Students: It’s a cupcake. Teacher: Where is the cupcake? Students: It’s on the table. Continue asking questions using all the prepositions. Birthday cake and Numbers tracing cards. For the lower elementary students, these tracing cards are good for reviewing. Birthday cake and Numbers tracing cards. For the lower elementary students, these tracing cards are good for reviewing. Birthday Worksheets. Worksheet 1. Students read and color the balloons. The worksheet can be turned into a notebook activity. Have the students glue the sentence next to each balloon. Worksheet 2. Students read and color the boys and girls. Then they have to cut out each person and glue them next to the correct paragraph on their notebook. Worksheet 3. I couldn’t help it when I saw these Party Animals clip art and created this worksheet that can be done in several steps or in different ways. First, have the students color the animals as you dictate them to practice listening. It also helps to keep the pace as students have to color on the time that you give them such as a minute for each animal. Teacher: Color the giraffe orange! There is the cake that students color as in the paragraph that you hand in. It can be done as a diorama. Students read the paragraph and place the animals where it corresponds. I placed an opened clip behind each item. Students can take turns reading each sentence and another student has to place the animal. It can also be done as a poster . I glued everything as in the paragraph. or a notebook activity. Birthday Pocket Charts.5 words and colors to make pocket charts of use them on the desk to make phrases. There is a BUNDLE resource for the Birthday Unit. LINK: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Birthday-Unit-for-Kindergarten-and-Elementary-ESL-BUNDLE-5652069 Please follow me!! Leave your comments and feedback.