Saturday, March 9, 2024

Easter Monkey and Candies

 This resource is included in Zoo Animals Unit for Kindergarten-Holistic English Series #26, just click here: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Zoo-Animals-Unit-for-Kindergarten-Holistic-English-Series-26-8078353

There is this Monkey celebrating Easter.  The monkey happens to like candy and there is a bunch of them. Review the words form this zoo unit and introduce the new vocabulary for the Holiday. Start with the flashcards or the small cards included.

Create a banner for your classroom and have the students identify all the candy that each monkey is holding. Creating the banners serves as a visual aid to help your students and even more your visual learners better understand the new vocabulary

There are several worksheets to review the colors. Use the worksheets as a form of assessment to identify where your students might need extra support.

Once your children have colored all the marshmallow bunnies, the peep chicks and the eggs, have them cut all the items. There is a set of different sequences strips for your students to replicate and say the words.


A game to review the vocabulary words using the cracked egg puzzle.

Prepare a flip matching book. There is a colored version and a black and white one to suit your classroom needs.  The book is very interactive and engaging.  Students’ attention will be captivated as you match the monkey to the candy.

Teacher: The monkey has an egg. (flip through the pages) Look! Here is the egg.

Encourage your learners to participate flipping through the pages and find the same images that the monkey has and name them.

 

A basket craft to wrap up the lesson. This craft is great for cultural understanding and making it relevant.  Create the basket with all the candies learned from the lesson.


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Monday, March 4, 2024

The frog at St. Patrick’s Day

 This resource is part of the resource Pets Unit for Kindergarten-Holistic English Series #16. Go to this link: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Pets-Unit-for-Kindergarten-Holistic-English-Series-16-6837926


Generate cultural awareness between your students by showing this unique Holiday.

Start with the flashcards using the frog, which they know from this unit but dressed up with the holiday outfits and has the items used of the celebration. The flashcards are versatile and brings a flexibility for their use. Use them for the students to play individually or in small groups. Adapt to the learning preference of your students present in your class.

If the students are using the flashcards individually place them in a clear plastic sheet and give them dry erase markers to write the word and trace the image.

St. Patrick’s Day

Use the flashcards on the board. Place the frog in the middle of the board and create a mind map by having your students helping you. Ask questions and write the word next to the body or face part.

What is this?
Students: eye!

Do sorting with all the flashcards. Introduce the activity and have them finish the sorting process.

Teacher: look at the frog! What is he wearing?
Students: hat, shoes!
Teacher: He’s wearing a green hat and green shoes/boots.

A simple game! Stick the flashcards around the classroom. Hand in a clover card to each student. Instruct them to go to a flashcard and place the clover on it. Teacher: Go to the frog that has a green hat and green shoes!

Do some practice and review with this set of  ST. Patrick's worksheets. Build math competence as the ability to to use numbers.

Integrate multiple language skills: listening and speaking, allowing your students to practice the numbers 1 to 10 in a Holiday context.

First, have the students draw the coins in each pot using a yellow marker. Then, dictate the color of each number: Color number three green!

Finally, students will color the coins with the number word and cut them. Paste where it belongs. Ask questions: What color is pot number 9?

Students: orange!

ST. Patrick's worksheets

Make a poster either individually or as in a group and use it for class decoration for the Holiday. Each student will color an item and them create the poster using their imagination.

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Thursday, February 29, 2024

Easter and the Transportation Unit for the Kindergarten English Language Learners

 This resource is part of the Transportation Unit-Holistic English series #23. Find the link here: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Transportation-Unit-for-Kindergarten-Holistic-English-Series-23-7677315


Here is a set of Easter characters in cars flashcards. Use them to facilitate repetition of the new words and review the ones they already know.

Reinforce the vocabulary with this activity.

Have a race with the Easter cars flashcards! Yes, punch holes and make a necklace for each car flashcard. Give one to the students playing. The learner will be that racer in that car.

Then, have them race in the yard or class from one place to another. Place the winner flashcard and the 1st,2nd,3rd place on the board. I put them on a plastic clear sheet to write the winner’s names on them and erase for more races to fit in the time limit.

Easter Cars Small Cards ready to print to add flexibility to your lesson plan. They can customize to suit your student’s learning needs. Play old simple memory game.


Cut the small vertically and you have a set of puzzles. The cards include a picture of the Easter characters in the cards to allow your students to discuss and describe them to put together the puzzle.


A few worksheets to complete the lesson. Students will engage in the review of key language, recalling words from the unit.

There is one for the 1st,2nd and 3rd place as you did with the race in class. The others can be listen and color the Easter characters.


To wrap it up, here is a door hanger for Easter that your students can create and take home, but there is one that you can print for your classroom and set the mood for the Holiday. Craft activities are great for your students to engage in a conversation with peers and the teacher to create their art.


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Sunday, February 25, 2024

Monkey and the Cookie Jar for St. Patrick’s Day

 This resource is included in Zoo Animals Unit for Kindergarten-Holistic English Series 26 which can be found at this link: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Zoo-Animals-Unit-for-Kindergarten-Holistic-English-Series-26-8078353


Use these Monkey flashcards to introduce your students to different words used on St. Patrick’s Day. Broaden their vocabulary using this monkey with cookies. This kind of activity will enhance their cultural awareness and understand the new language.

Do some spelling with the big flashcards and cutout letters. Students can recognize the letters in each word and replicate them.

Do the same but with the small cards included in the resource.

Have the students match the cookies small cards that the monkey has on his hands. Ask questions: What does the monkey have?

Students: a horseshoe and a lollipop!

Play St. Pat swatter. First make your swatter by attaching any St. Pat item to a wood rod. Here are mine.

Place all the small cards on a table and assign a number to each column, those would be the points they will get.

Name a card and the students will use their swatter to point to the card: a black pot!

Great! 5 points!


Use an egg holder and place all the cards.

Call on a card and have the students pick them: cupcake!

Just a few worksheets. Since this is a monkey with cookies resource, there is a cookie jar. Have the students read the colors and complete the cookies.

Give your students a brown bag for them to glue the cookie jar previously cut. The cookie should be cut as well.

Students will fill their cookie jar as they name each one: rainbow! Learners will solidify the new words in a fun way.

There is another worksheet that has a die. Games are a way to reinforce the vocabulary learned. Assign a color for each cookie on the die: color the clover green! Help the students cut and assemble the die.


 Have the students get together in pairs and throw their dice and see if the land the same to win a point. Give them a token each time they make a match. Students: a cookie! A cookie!

Wrap it up with a find a partner game. Print the monkey and the cookies cards and cut in half. Have the students match it up.

find a partner game

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