All You Need is Paper (and a little love) ESL/EFL activities

My first grade bilingual class made this 3D cactus to practice answering how's the weather . The city we live in is known for its hot and dry days so the craft was very appropriate. Since they had been online for more than a semester, it was pretty easy for them to follow all the steps from the slides.  I made the vase from an oatmeal box. A cereal box works perfectly too. You need 3 circles for each part of the cactus so the students need 9 circles total. Everything except the vase was made on creative paper, then cut out and glued onto the orange paper which I thought gave the idea that it was a hot day but it's okay if the don't have orange paper. They can use another color as the base paper or color a white sheet. We all loved the final product. 😍        

O ur new unit is about sea creatures and going to the beach. In one class, we made pails and decorated them with the different sea animals we were studying about. Each student got to say what was on their pail. The following class the students helped me count seashells. If the student said the number of the shell correctly, they got to place it in their pail. We later looked for some seashells which were hidden around the classroom. At the end of the class, each student made their own seashell to add to their collection and take home to count with their families. Aren't all the colors beautiful?