Letter O Worksheets, Flash Cards, Coloring Pages

Many people who visit my blog come here to find printable resources designed to help EFL and ESL teachers teach English alphabet to kids. Therefore I create blog posts that combine previously published printables dedicated to each individual letter in order to help educators better find necessary teaching materials and navigate through my blog to find even more useful resources for their classes. Today’s post offers my fellow English teachers some printable worksheets, flashcards, coloring pages, and posters designed by me to teach letter O to children in kindergarten and elementary school.

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American English vs. British English Matching Cards

Thanks to Hollywood English language got pretty much Americanized. Even in the conservative United Kingdom young people use more and more American words. Non-native speakers mix American English and British English very frequently too, mostly unwittingly. However it is important for English learners to be able to tell apart American and British variations of some key words in order to use them correctly. After all, we want to sound properly and accurately to the audience we communicate with because all too often our language defines our competence and the first impression of us. Therefore I offer my young students a large set of printable cards designed to help them memorize some commonly used words that differ from each other in American and British English.

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The American English vs. British English set features 84 word pairs. The cards can be used both as visual aids to introduce the relevant vocabulary and as a set-up for word-to-picture matching activities. Such visually enhanced activities tend to be conducive to long-term memory. By using these cards, EFL and ESL teachers can raise children’s awareness of differences between American English and British English as well as expand students’ vocabulary with some useful words.

This is how my printable American English vs. British English cards look like.

Beginning Consonant Blends and Digraphs Worksheets

Following the blog post about my beginning blends and digraphs charts, I’d like to share a few printable worksheets I designed to teach beginning consonant blends and digraphs to my young students.

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A printable worksheet designed to teach digraphs ch, ph, th, wh, sh, kn. 

English-Chinese Flashcards: Wild Animals. Part 4.

I continue publishing the collection of printable English-Chinese flashcards that I have designed to help EFL and ESL teachers that work in one of today’s most popular destinations for English teachers – China. Visuals like these bright and colorful flashcards can be a great ice-breaking tool especially when it comes to teaching to kids who do not speak English yet while the teacher does not know Chinese well enough. So here are another 10 wild animals flashcards to use for your educational endeavors in China. Today's flashcards feature the following animals: raccoon, ram, rat, rhinoceros (rhino), seal, skunk, snake, squirrel, tiger, tortoise.

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Phonics Flashcards (Consonants S, T)

Today I would like to present another group of English consonant flashcards. The post contains 23 more cards dedicated to the letter Ss and 1 card with the letter Tt.

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Ss: cards №№77-78 include words with the sound [s] at the beginning and the end of the words as well as when it occurs due to the double ss. Card №79 contains words where the letter S produces the sound [s] at the endings after voiceless consonants. Cards №№80-81 present words in which S gives the sound [z] when it occurs between two vowels and in the endings after vowels and voiced consonants. Card №82 offers words in which the letter S is pronounced as [ʃ]. Cards №№83-92 contain the blends sc, sk, sl, sm, sn, sp, st, sw, sh. Cards №№93-96 present the three letter blends spl, scr, spr, str. Card №97 presents the phonogram -sion which gives the sound [ʒn] while card №98 presents the same phonogram -sion which gives the sound [ʃn]. Card №99 includes words with the silent S.

Phonics consonants flashcards

ESL Game: Alphabet Puzzle

English teachers working with kids, especially with those who learn English as second language, have to face one of the biggest challenges a teacher has to deal with. The challenge is keeping young learners entertained while learning the language. Although little kids' brains are brilliant in memorizing things and absorbing a new language, it's extremely hard to make children learn something when they are bored. Their attention span is to short to focus on something boring. The traditional English teaching approaches used for adult learners do not work for preschoolers and elementary school student, let along toddlers whose moms want them to learn English as early as possible. Teach children like adults and you'll see them fidgeting and yawning throughout the entire lesson with almost no success in learning the language. So that's why ESL teachers have to resort to using fun activities, games, songs, colorful pictures and cartoons to grab kids' attention and create that atmosphere of fun and excitement where children's brains get ready to memorize letters, vocabulary and phonetics with and astonishing ease.

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Unfortunately, all those games, flashcards, worksheets, songs and movies require a great deal of time, efforts and money for teachers to get or create them. I thought I'd create some teaching materials including printable worksheets and games to spare ESL teachers' time a little bit and let them take care of their personal needs besides getting occupied with their professional stuff.

Printable English alphabet puzzle game

Teaching English to Kids

There are a few reasons why you may want your kids to learn to speak English. It may be that your family has moved to a country where English is spoken, or you may have a situation where English is not usually spoken at home but you want your children to learn to speak the language as contact with persons outside of the home and your community increases. In other cases, you may be living in a country where English is not natively spoken, but you want your children to learn the language as early a possible, so that they will eventually be able to communicate like native speakers of the language. Whatever your reasons or motivations, teaching your children to speak English is not as difficult as it may seem at first. There are a few ground rules, tips and trick that you can used to have your kids speaking and reading (if they are old enough!) English in no time.

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Children learn some their most valuable lessons inside the home, and learning the English language is no different. You will find that as you incorporate the language in all that you do at home, the children will begin to learn and retain what you have taught them.

Free Clip Art for Teachers: Wild Animals

When working on animation videos for my ESL Youtube channel, my husband creates multiple illustrations. I think it’s a good idea to share these images as clip art for teachers to help my colleagues from all over the world make their English lessons more exciting for kids.

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Last time my husband created a set of illustration was when he was creating the “I Can” song for which he needed to draw wild animals. So below you can find pictures of wild animals he created. You can use these royalty free images as you wish for your lessons. They can be used to make flashcards or other printable stuff. Enjoy!

Giraffe

Kangaroo

Snowflakes Song for Kids

It's winter now and we have a wonderful opportunity to teach our children some winter vocabulary. One of the most fascinating things about winter is, of course, snow and those tiny beautiful snowflakes falling softly from the sky. So I would like to share my Snowflakes Song with fellow teachers and parents. This song is very simple and can be used for preschool and kindergarten children from 3 to 6 years old.

Watch the Snowflakes Song video on Youtube

Here are the Snowflakes Song lyrics

Snowflakes, snowflakes,
Falling, falling, falling, falling to the ground.
Snowflakes, snowflakes,
Flying, flying, flying, flying all around.

Snowflakes, snowflakes,
Dance in the air.
Snowflakes, snowflakes,
Everywhere.
Snowflakes, snowflakes,
Fly around.
Snowflakes, snowflakes,
Touch the ground.

Snowflakes, snowflakes,
Falling, falling, falling, falling to the ground.
Snowflakes, snowflakes,
Flying, flying, flying, flying all around.

See also:
Arctic Animals Song for Children
I'm a Happy Snowman - Winter Song for Children
Winter Song about Merry Frosty Days

Free Clip Art for Teachers: Forest Animals

When educating kids lots of teachers add visuals to their teaching materials. It's kind of important because little children learn things about the world mostly from visual perception of objects around them. It is not always possible to show real physical objects or living beings in the classroom, and describing them with mere words without showing at least a simple picture may be a futile attempt to teach something to little ones. Necessity of visual materials like clip art and flashcards is a fact of life for preschool teachers like myself. After all pictures are a great fun for children and having fun during lessons with small kids is a key to the educational success. Unfortunately, not all my fellow teachers and parents can draw and use graphic editing software or have high quality clip art available for them free of charge. That's why I decided to share some free educational clip art I have in my teacher's collection. In my first post related to clip art I would like to share a few cute cartoon images drawn by my husband for my forest animals song video.

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My husband is not a big artist but at least he can draw better than I can and his drawings are just good enough to be used for my English lessons with kindergarten kids. You too can use these kid-appealing pictures for creating your own worksheets, flashcards, posters, games, newsletters, PowerPoint presentations, homework pages, school websites and other teachers' stuff to make your lessons and overall teaching activities more informative, engaging and fruitful.

Well, as I said in this first clip art post I offer my fellow educators some royalty free pictures of funny looking cartoon forest animals including bear, beaver, bird, butterfly, deer, fox, frog, hare, hedgehog, mole, snake, squirrel, and wolf.

Cartoon wolf clip art

Phonics Cards (Short U Sound)

This is the last post with my short sound phonics cards. This time it's the short [ʌ] sound. The set consists of 16 phonics cards for reading and practicing this sound.

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Сards №№ 57-67 include such phonograms as -un, -ut, -ug, -um, -ub, ud, -up, -uck, -unk, -ump, -ust. Card № 68 presents some cases where the letter Uu is read as [ʌ] in the middle of the word, while card № 69 contains words with the same sound occurring in the beginning of the words. Card № 70 has words where the letter Oo is read as [ʌ], and cards №№ 71-72 introduce reading rules for vowel digraphs oo and ou.

Phonics flashcard: short [ʌ] sound

Phonics Cards (Short O Sound)

Today I would like to share my new set of phonics flashcards and this time with the short sound [ɔ]. This set consists of 12 cards covering the following cases:

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Cards №№ 45-52 include the following phonograms: -og, -ot, -op, -ob, -od, -ong, -ock, qua-. Card № 53 contains words where the short sound [ɔ] occurs in the middle of a word. Card № 54 presents words with this sound in the beginning. There are cases of the “wa” letter combination on card № 55. And card № 56 demonstrates the short [ɔ] sound in the vowel digraph au.

Phonics flashcard: short [ɔ] sound

Pepper Paper Craft

I would like to present you another vegetable craft – a pepper. It can be used by teachers and parents while teaching a lot of topics: gardening, harvest, healthy food and helping at home. This pepper craft is very colorful and positive.

This craft goes with my Garden song:

Watch the vegetables song video on Youtube

While making this craft your child will learn about:

Christmas Fun Song for Kids (+ Flashcards)

Hurray! Christmas season has come! It is the most loved and exciting time of the year that requires an intensive preparation. All children must know what is needed to feel a special and unique atmosphere of Christmas. But if you are still not sure what one needs for a fun holiday, my Christmas Fun Song for kids will certainly help you out. Just listen carefully!

Watch the Christmas Fun Song video on Youtube

Here are the Christmas Fun Song lyrics

What Do You Need for Christmas Fun?

What do you need for Christmas fun,
Christmas fun, Christmas fun?
What do you need for Christmas fun
On this frosty Christmas day?

A pail of sand?
An Easter egg?
A motor boat
Or an ice-cream cone?

No! No! No! No! No!

A holly wreath,
A jolly reindeer,
Christmas cookies
A row of stockings,
Christmas tree,
Lots of gifts,
Outside we are caroling.

What do you need for Christmas fun,
Christmas fun, Christmas fun?
What do you need for Christmas fun
On this frosty Christmas day?

A watermelon?
A big umbrella?
A birthday cake?
A farmer rake?

No! No! No! No! No!

Santa’s sleigh,
Some merry elves,
Snowflakes,
Silver bells,
Snowman,
Candy canes,
Many friends to sing and play.

ESL Christmas fun song lyrics

Autumn (Fall) Song for Children

Autumn (fall) is the season of colourful leaves. All children love walking in parks full of rich colours and pick up some crunchy leaves to put them together in a wonderful multicolour bunch. In my song I tried to convey the atmosphere of a warm autumn day as well as the children’s joy during the leaf-fall time. This autumn song and worksheets which you can find below can be used for English lessons to learn about seasons, autumn outdoor activities, and even Thanksgiving Day with kids.

Here are the song lyrics

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Autumn leaves are falling,

Falling to the ground.

Autumn leaves are falling:

Yellow, red, and brown.

Falling, falling, falling

To the ground.

Falling, falling:

Yellow, red, and brown.

Pick them up and gather

In a pretty bunch,

Autumn leaves are falling

In the parks they crunch.

Falling, falling, falling

To the ground.

Falling, falling:

Yellow, red, and brown.

Autumn leaves song lyrics

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Autumn Song Karaoke Version

As always I would like to suggest making some worksheets to consolidate the autumn vocabulary.

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Autumn Worksheets

Worksheet 1: This assignment helps pupils to remember the names of trees. Children should recognize what kind of trees these leaves belong to and correctly match the leaves with corresponding tree names.

Fall leaves worksheet

Rain Song for Kids

Autumn (Fall) is always considered to be a rainy season. Many people associate rain with a gloomy, sad weather when nobody has a desire to go outside. In my song I disagree with this opinion. The boy who is singing the song (as seen in the video below) personifies all children’s spontaneity and confidence in the future. He is happy in spite of any bad weather and any such troubles. That’s why teaching children and working close with them is an exciting and inspiring profession.

I wrote this rain song in one of such gloomy autumn days but I think it can be used also in spring and summer to learn the weather vocabulary.

I Am not Afraid of Rain
(Song Lyrics)

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I am not afraid of rain,
‘Cause I have a big umbrella.
Outside the whole day
I will play in any weather.
In the rain I’m gonna walk
Let people say at home it’s better,
I will listen to the raindrops talk
Petter-patter, Petter-patter, Petter-patter.

Rain song lyrics

As always, I would like to suggest  you a few worksheets to practice rainy weather vocabulary with your own children as well as students.

Worksheet 1: In this task children should match the rain vocabulary with the corresponding pictures in order to remember words on the tipic.

Rainy Weather Vocabulary Worksheet

Tomato Paper Craft

Referring to my previous posts about vegetables I would like to suggest you making another vegetable craft – a tomato. Tomatoes are very popular in many countries of the world. They are very healthy and help to protect people from serious diseases being a powerful source of antioxidants and vitamins. You can use this craft introducing vegetables to little English learners or investigating the topic of wholesome food.

This craft goes with my Garden song:

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While making this craft your child will learn about:

• red color
• vegetables
• country life in autumn
• healthy food

You’ll also help your kid develop:

• fine motor skills
• sense of space
• hand-eye coordination
• creativity
• imagination
• emotional intelligence

For this craft you’ll need the following:

• construction paper;
• scissors;
• glue or a glue stick;
• wiggle eyes (if you wish).

Step-by-step instructions:

• Print the templates of the tomato paper craft.

• Cut out all the parts. Help your children to cut out the details if they can’t do this by themselves.

• Stick the tomato onto the green piece of paper, and then stick hands and legs.

• Stick the tomato face. You can cut out a mouth, a nose and two eyes from the template or draw your own ones on the tomato. Or you can use wiggle eyes if you like to make your tomato happy and cheerful.

Tomato Paper Craft Template

I belive youк kids will enjoy making this wonderful tomato all year round.

This tomato paper craft is related to my Garden Song.

Cucumber Paper Crafts

Today I would like to present a cucumber paper craft which can be used in connection with many topics while learning English. You can speak with your pupils about wholesome food because cucumbers are considered to be very healthy and refreshing. Ask your pupils to remember what they know about this vegetable. Give them the information that cucumbers consist of 95% water. It means that we should eat these yummy green vegetables during hot summer days to keep ourselves hydrated. In winter preserved cucumbers, or pickles, are also used in many countries of the world as a wonderful component in winter dishes. So cucumbers are very important vegetables full of vitamins and microelements necessary for our body.

This craft goes with my vegies song:

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While making this craft your child will learn about:

• green color
• vegetables
• hydration
• harvest season
• preserving vegetables for winter

You’ll also help your kid develop:

• fine motor skills
• hand-eye coordination
• sense of space
• imagination
• creativity
• emotional intelligence

For this craft you’ll need the following:

• paper;
• scissors;
• glue or a glue stick;
• wiggle eyes (if you wish).

Step-by-step instructions:

► Print the templates of the cucumber craft.

► Cut out all the parts. If your child can’t cut out you can help him/her.

► Stick the cucumber onto the paper, and then stick the leaves, hands and legs on the cucumber.

► Stick the face. You can cut out a mouth, a nose and two eyes from the template or draw your own ones on the cucumber. Or you can use wiggle eyes if you like to make your vegetable merry and friendly.

Cucumber Paper Craft Template

Enjoy this craft! Please make some comments about my songs and worksheets. Share your crafts and ideas about learning English.

This cucumber paper craft is related to my Vegetable Song.

Farm Animals Song for Kids

Animals are always an interesting topic for children especially those of younger age. Animal characters have been surrounding kids since almost birthday. That is why farm animals are likely to be an exciting thing for kids learning English in your classroom. It’s always stimulating to introduce funny animals in the process of education and overall development of communication abilities. There are a lot of fun game opportunities to develop language skills and imagination.

Farm Animals Song Lyrics

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It’s a wonderful day!
Let’s go to the farm!

Hi, little cow! How are you?
I am fine, thank you.
The sun is so bright. The sky is so blue.
The grass is so green. Moo, moo, moo.

Hi, little duck! How are you?
I am fine, thank you.
What are you doing there in the lake?
I am swimming. Quack, quack, quack.

Hi, little horse! How are you?
I am great, thank you.
Would you like some fresh tasty hay?
Oh, with pleasure! Neigh, neigh.

Hi, little sheep! How are you?
I am fine, thank you.
What are you doing next to the barn?
I’m waiting for my master. Baa, baa, baa.

Hi, little dog! How are you?
Very well, thank you.
Why are you looking up on the roof?
The cat is sitting there. Woof, woof, woof.

Hi, little cat! How are you?
I am fine, thank you.
Come here and play with me right now.
I’m lying in the sun. Miaow, miaow, miaow.

Hi, little hen! How are you?
I am fine, thank you.
Why are you walking there in the yard?
I’m looking for some grains. Cluck, cluck, cluck.

Hi, little pig! How are you?
I am fine, thank you.
Why are you shining like a golden coin?
I’ve found a real one. Oink, oink, oink.

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Karaoke Version of the Farm Animals Song

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Farm Animals Worksheets

There are, of course, some worksheets to remember farm animals in English.

Worksheet 1: The first task is to circle the animal that is different. This is a very simple worksheet for children who don’t know the ABC yet. That is why it can be given even in preschool. Ask older learners to find a different animal and explain their choice using as an example the following sentence:

This sheep is different because it has got a flower.

Farm Animals Worksheet 1

Carrot Paper Craft

Following my previous posts I would like to present you another vegetable craft – a carrot. It’s a very healthy vegetable that gives you a lot of vitamins and positive feelings. This craft goes with my vegetables song:

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While making this craft your child will learn about:

• orange color
• vegetables
• country life in autumn

You’ll also help your kid develop:

• fine motor skills
• hand-eye coordination
• sense of space
• imagination
• creativity
• emotional intelligence

For this craft you’ll need the following:

• paper;
• scissors;
• glue or a glue stick;
• wiggle eyes (if you wish).

Step-by-step instructions:

► Print the templates of the carrot craft.

► Cut out all the parts. If your child can’t cut out you can help him/her.

► Stick the carrot onto the paper, and then stick the leaves and hands on the carrot.

► Stick the face. You can cut out a mouth, a nose and two eyes from the template or draw your own ones on the carrot. Or you can use wiggle eyes if you like to make your carrot more alive and friendly.

Carrot Paper Craft Template

I hope your children will like this craft.

This carrot paper craft is related to my Vegetable Song.