This is the ninth theme from the series of 30 units for the Preschool-Kindergarten English Language Learners.Useful for any ELL teacher. Here are some teaching tips for the first part of the lesson plan for the My Toys Unit, the Presentation. LINK: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Toys-Unit-for-Kindergarten-Holistic-English-Series-9-6169520 A set of Toys Unit Flashcards for students to identify and name that include ball,teddy bear, car, doll, toybox,kite,robot. Aural and visual learners will benefit from the use of flashcards in class. There are some cards in plural to introduce the grammar point of: one ball,two balls. Show the use of this and these with the flashcards. Teacher: This is a robot. These are robots. Ask questions with How many? Teacher: How many robots? Students: four! Three ideas for using these Flashcards for the TOys Unit for teaching Kindergarten English Language Learners. Use the flashcards to introduce the verb to be with the toys vocabulary as students can name the colors of each one. Teacher: It's a car. What color is the car? Student: yellow. Idea 1: Use magnetic letters or any kind of letters that you have available and lead your students to write each toy word. Have the students say sentences. Students: This is a car. This is not a doll. Idea 2: These toys have a face. Have your students either trace each facial feature or draw them. I placed each flashcard inside a clear plastic sheet and using white board markers students can do this activity, erase and give it to another classmate to do the same. Ask questions: Where is the nose? Student: here! Idea 3: Cut the flashcards into 4 or 8 pieces and students can put them together as a fun wrap up activity. I love to practice the phrase color + noun for each unit. There is a set of all the toys in different colors for you review that. Sorting on the board is a fun and easy way to do it. Toy Graph. Place several flashcards on the board, divide them into columns. Give students the favorite toy worksheet. Ask them to draw their favorite toy from the ones displayed on the board. Then, have students come to the board and paste their worksheet under the same flashcard as their drawing. They should say what their favorite toy is and describe it. Teacher: What's your favorite toy? Count how many drawings each flashcard has a record the information on a graph. Model and introduce the grammar structure as they place their drawing under the corresponding flashcard: I play with my ball. Find real toys and have the students match the real toys to the flashcards. The toys and the face. Place a flashcard on the board and review the parts of the face with the students. Teacher: Look! What is this? Students: mouth! Place the doll or the teddy bear flashcard on the board and have the students name each part of the face. There is also a set of the boy and girl teddy bear. Use them to ask Who questions. Have the students circle each face part if you place the flashcards inside a clear plastic sheet. Teacher: This is the teddy bear's face. His eyes are brown. His nose is brown. And have the students identify and talk about the emotions of the toys! Have the students sort the emotions of the flashcards featuring a teedy bear, a robot and a car that's happy, sad and angry. Three flashcards to use for asking questions in simple present: Who has? Teacher: Who has a kite ? Students: Pam! If the students can´t read have them point to the flashcards. Give students the toys flashcards and ask questions: What toy do you have? Student: I have a ball. (I have got a ball) Review the shapes using these teddy bears shapes flashcards: circle,square, triangle, rectangle. There is a set of more toys unit flashcards, such as puzzle, puppet,blocks, yo-yo, scooter,board game among others. There is a set of flashcards in Spanish for dual language or bilingual teachers. TOYS Commands Flashcards. Introduce the commands (imperatives) related to toys such as : PLAY! Put away! Píck up! Use the flashcards to give instructions with the action verb: play. Teacher: Play with the doll! Students run and find a doll shows it to the teacher. The students that finds one wins a point. Continue with more toys. This will be fun if you are doing online teaching. Also use these flashcards to introduce the phrase: Let's play! If you are working with values, use the put away toys flashcards. Toys Unit Small cards. First, Craft the stuffed shapes. Assign a color to each teddy bear shape. Students color the shape, also dictate the color of the facial features. I added wiggly eyes in different color to each shape. Students can make just one teddy bear to play the game. Teacher: look at the triangle bear. Color the nose red. Color the ears brown. Color the triangle green. Students trace the shape onto any recycled construction paper. Cut the traced shape and glue both together and leave an opened space between them. The shapes can be filled with cotton, torn recycled paper and any other. Play throw the teddy bear to. I placed a small card to each plastic plate and had the students throw the teddy bear as they hear the instruction. Teacher: Throw the teddy bear to the car! Take a look! Also prepare the toy box using a cereal box and the printable. Give directions to students: Put the ball in the toy box. Students can say the phrase: my ball! Play a game as your students match the small cards to the big flashcards. Play Bowling with the toys unit small cards.Place each small card on a binder and have a ball to play. Student:A black robot! Toys Unit Cutouts. All the toys in 11 different colors to do lots of speaking activities. Sorting the toys cutouts by color is another fun activity to have your students work on their own or in small groups. Use the cutouts to role play having a toy store. Toys Cutouts can help with making patterns. Print the strips and have the students name each toy item as they create the pattern. Print the cutouts twice. Glue one set onto cardboard. Then have the younger students match each robot as they say a phrase:a purple robot! Write the color words on cardboard and have the students match the cutouts to each word. Or write the vocabulary words and the students will match the toy to the word. Did you check the worksheets for the Toys unit for Kindergarten ELL? https://eflpreschoolteachers.blogspot.com/2020/10/toys-theme-for-kindergarten-holistic_26.html Follow me on Social Media.