Body Theme for Preschool English Learners

Emotion, play and  surprising activities are the secret ingredients to learning.

Knowing the body part vocabulary will build positive self -awareness.

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 Robot puzzle: 

Use the puzzles to make a whole body and help the child understand the concept of the body and the location of the body parts. The puzzles are 4 or 8 pieces each. Use the colored version or the coloring page puzzle. The children can exchange their puzzle pieces with a partner.

Body Colors Puzzle:  print the puzzle pieces onto different colored paper.

Point to each body part and have the children name each one.

Teacher: What´s this ?

Class: arm.

Say a color and the students should identify what body part is inside the puzzle part. Then do the opposite.

 Teacher: red

Class: leg

Teacher: foot

Class: green

Do the same but using shapes.

Left and right Concept: use arrows to indicate the concept of left and right.

Then have children show their hands as indicated.

Teacher: Show me your (right/ left) hand.

Teacher: Show me your (right/ left) knee.

Teacher: Show me your (right/ left)leg.

Teacher: Show me your (right/ left) eye.

Teacher: Show me your (right/ left) arm.

Teacher: Show me your (right/ left) foot.

Have children march in class as you say: Left, right.

Hand match. Have students match the right and left hands. Use the hands to make patterns on the board. Also distribute all the hands and have them find their partner.

Body Parts Flashcards: show the body flashcards one at a time.

Teacher: This is a leg.

Encourage students to make similar sentences with all the flashcards.

As you show a body flashcards, students should touch  or move their body parts at the same time. They gain spatial awareness by locating the position of their body parts.

Teacher: hand.

Students: hand (touch or move their hands)

Have students match the smaller cutouts to the big flashcards.

Memory Game: you can enlarge the memory cards and play a giant memory game in a bigger space, by gluing the pictures onto small paper plates.

Puppets: I found in my files this Carson Dellosa puppets.  Encourage students to ask questions to the puppet. Student: show me your hand. The student touches the puppet´s hand. Request the file for free: ei98srl@gmail.com

Domino: scatter the domino face down on the table of 4 group members. When a member places a domino piece have him/her name the pictures on both sides.

Body Numbers: students have to learn the linguistic and mathematical ability to express themselves using numbers.

Hang all the cards in numerical order. Ask students about the cards.

Teacher: What is number 3 ?

Students : a foot.

Teacher: leg.

Students: Number 6.

Some worksheets to use as a listening activity.

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Play fly swat with the letter arts and crafts.

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Commands Flashcards for the ESL Teacher

Classroom Commands cards are a life saver for many teachers with so many newcomers or just for the EFL environment to stop translating or giving directions in the first language.

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                   A Video with all the flashcards within the resource to help with classroom discipline.

Use the commands in class as often as you can. Using the word and picture flashcard will help students focus with all the directions given in English and help you not to translate. 

Activity: Say stand up and indicate with your arms to stand up. Do the same with sit down. Give more instructions with Boys and Girls.

Teacher: Boys, Stand up. Girls, sit down.

Have students give out the order.

Activity: give instead of 1 direction, a series of 2 up to 4  commands, such as: 

Teacher: sit down, stand up, write, read a book.

Vary the instructions.

 I created a set of symbols to represent the imperatives. 

You can also put them on the board when you need them. 
Give orders by pointing to the symbol card.

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Family Theme Resource for ESL

Link to the Family Theme resource for Kindergarten English Langauge Learner:   https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Family-Activities-for-Preschool-ELL-1804127

     Watch the video of the complete resource:

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Provide an environment with lots of exposure to the family theme. Students should be able to say the family members words.

1  Flashcards are useful to review family words. You can start using only a few cards not the whole set, introduce more as you see progress.

Family flashcards Activity 1: Place the  flashcards around the room

                            Teacher: sister. Point to sister.

Children look around and point to the family member. Repeat with more family members.

Family Flashcards and Numbers review.

Preschool Activity 3: Give students a flashcard and have them stand in line.

Name a family member and instruct that students to step forward and spin or turn around in place.

Teacher: baby! Where´s baby ? Turn around , baby!

   Family Unit Puppets: Make some puppets with the family members. Dramatic play helps with learning new words and expressions, while enhancing the skills of  listening and speaking. Make puppets part of your routine.

 Puppet activity 1: 

Have the class greet the puppets:

Teacher: (showing the dad puppet)Hello , students!

Class: hello, dad!!

Repeat with all the other family members.

Puppet activity 2 to introduce the family members:

Teacher: (Point to daddy). Who´s he ?

Students: He´s daddy.

Puppet activity 3: 

Hold up a family member puppet.

Teacher:   Is this mother ? Students have to nod or shake their heads or hold up the yes or no puppets. (available on my TPT store)

Students:if the answer is YES, have them wave and greet the family member.

 Hello, mother!

  Puzzle:  Cut the family members cards into 4 pieces. Show one piece to the class and have them guess the family member. Place on the board. Have the children come up to the front to put the puzzle together, or have them do it on their tables.

 Family Shapes. There are 2 versions for this game.

a-    The family members are in each shape. Have the children say which family member is in each shape.  Name a family member and have them say which shape that person is in.

Teacher: Where is Mother?

Students: In the triangle!

I created a flannel board out of an old file folder, by pasting felt directly to the file. I also glued some velcro on each shape.

b-   Blank shapes and separate family members. Place the shapes on the board.

Have the children place a family member where you indicate.

Teacher: Grandpa is in the circle.

            Baby brother is in the oval. 

            Baby Girl is in the rectangle.

  Family drawing: have children draw their families and describe them to the class.

Family draw in: I made all these family members without face parts. The chidren will have to draw them and make them happy, sad or angry to review emotions and parts of the face. There are also big faces to do the same, but with pink or red yarn paste on an emotion to it.

Animal family: I ran across these animal families and made them as into matching cards. Students can read and understand family vocabulary.

Awards: put a safety pin behind.

Family Halves Game: give students all the halves and have them sort the people by family members. Also, give each student a half and have them get together by finding a partner with another half. Then, have them get together by family members.

 Family Album: have the students cut and paste family pictures in each space. Then can also draw each family member.

Family Domino: paste your domino onto old files or scraps of old cardboard. Give them free play time with the dominos.

And continuing with my collection of worksheets for Preschool English Language Learners, here are some more.

Worksheet 1. This is always the worksheet to use as flashcards and more. Keep them for all the classes to revise vocabulary.

Tell the students to color each family member in different color hair and eyes, to make different combinations.  You can make a class graph or a table graph with the hair color and eye color.

 Students will demonstrate understanding by reading and matching the word that can be taken off each card and having students match the word to each picture. 

Worksheet 2.  Blank faces for children to make a happy, sad, angry face.  I also added the color splotches and the numbers.

Instruct students to color their family members in any color combination they want. 

Colllect all the color splotches in a bag. Take one out at a time.

Teacher: What color is this ?

Students: Red.

Teacher: Who has red hair ?

Student: My sister ! ( Answers may Vary )

Teacher: OK. Bring me your sister.  ( place the red splotch on the board next to all the family members that have red hair.

Continue with all the other color splotches.

Then place the numbers next to each family member.  Say a number and have the students say who it is and describe the person.

Teacher: Number two ! Who´s number two ?

Students: It´s mommy !

Teacher: What color is mommy´s hair ?

Students: It´s black.

Teacher: What color are mommy´s eyes?

Students:They´re black.

Teacher: Is she happy or sad ?

Students: She´s happy.

Worksheet 3. Have students trace each mouth with a red crayon.

                           Teacher: Look at brother! He is happy. Trace his mouth.

 Students trace the contour of each family member. There are the numbers 1 to 4.

Have the students place a family member next to each number.

Teacher:  Number 4.

Students: daddy!

Teacher: happy, sad or angry?

Students: happy !

Worksheet 4. The classic portrait.  It´s so much fun to see how the show their family members to the class.

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