Telling Time on Clock - Rhyme-Based Worksheets

I designed a dozen printable worksheets based on my nursery rhyme that I had written to teach my young student to tell the time on a clock in English. The worksheets are colorful and child-appealing. They offer a super easy activity for kids who begin learning English and telling time.

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Every worksheet has two text-and-picture parts featuring a four-liner of the nursery rhyme and a clock image part that should be cut out. The clock shows the time from one o'clock to midnight. The teacher asks kids to match a clock part with the correct text-and-picture part. The clock only shows the whole hours without minutes, so the worksheets can be used as one of basic activities at the start of learning time.

My time telling worksheets have the cut-out part.

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. 

Printable Sight Words Flashcards

Reading is a cornerstone skill for learning languages. However, teaching to read in a foreign language is a very complicated task for educators, and especially for those who work with little kids. It may seem like children struggle with reading even in their native language, let alone in English which they study as their second language. But, fortunately, most kids absorb languages very quickly as they frequently do at their age. It is the way their brains function as they start to discover the world around them. So many ESL teachers apply tried and true methods of teaching kids to read used by native language speakers. One of such methods is whole word method based on so-called sight words.

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The kit has more than 550 Dolch sight word cards (including 95 image cards for nouns as well as cards featuring verbs in different forms)

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The method implies memorizing high frequency words (sight words) as a whole by sight. Kids memorize how words look and thus learn to automatically recognize them in texts. It is especially useful for words with non-standard spelling patterns such as “was” or “come”.

List of sight words (Dolch words) introduced in the first grade

One of the most popular lists of sight words was created by Edward William Dolch in 1938. He picked out 220 high frequency words from children’s books of his era. Those words should be easily recognized by kids for a better start to learning to read. They say that Dolch sight words cover from 50% to 75% of all words used in library books, school books and newspapers. It looks like a solid base for kids who learn to read in English as foreign language.

Color Coded Sight Words Flashcards

I tried to use sight words flashcards that I could find and download online. But the problem is that they all looked too dry and plain. Working with them is far from being fun for kids. So I decided to create my own set of printable sight words flashcards with the following benefits:

• Attracting attention due to an unusual shape of cards
• Color coded flashcards to help kids learn word order in English sentences
• Sight word nouns with corresponding image flashcards
• Interactivity and gamification

Sight words flashcards designed for kids of different age groups, ranging from kindergarten to middle school

Matching Words to Numbers Flashcards

English numbers and counting are some of the earliest topics introduced to kids by ESL teachers.

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I have created a set of printable flashcards for fellow English teachers to use when teaching numbers. These flashcards will help make English classes more fun for kids and gamify a little bit their learning experience. Cards like these create a challenge. And a challenge is a well-known catalyst for memorizing words.

Each flashcard consists of two detachable parts. The upper part has a number in digits, and the lower part has the same number in words. Children are supposed to match the two parts and connect them into a single card.

There are flashcards with numbers 1 - 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90, 100.

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:

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:

Watch this video on Youtube

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:

Watch this video on Youtube

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.

Pumpkin Paper Craft

Pumpkin is the most popular craft for the harvest season, especially for Halloween. My pumpkin isn’t scary, it’s happy and cheerful. I hope this craft will create a merry atmosphere in your classroom or house if you teach kids at home. This craft goes with my vegetables song:

Watch this video on Youtube

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While making this craft your child will learn about:

• orange and green colors
• vegetables
• the country life in autumn (fall)
• Halloween

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 (optional).

Step-by-step instructions:

• Print the templates of the pumpkin craft which can be found below.

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

• Stick the pumpkin onto the paper, and then stick hands, legs and a pumpkin stalk.

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

Pumpkin Paper Craft Template

This pumpkin paper craft is related to my earlier posts about the Garden Song and about Halloween.

Starfish Craft

This is a very simple paper craft for a little kid. You can use it while learning sea animals, star shape or just for summer fun.

While making this craft your child will learn more the following:

• Blue, yellow, and pink colors;
• Star, circle and paper ball shape;
• Life in the sea.

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:

• blue, yellow, and pink construction paper;
• scissors;
• glue stick;
• pencil;
• wiggle eyes (if you like).

Step-by-step instructions:

Step 1
Use a pencil to draw a star onto a piece of yellow construction paper. This will be the body of your starfish.

Cut out the star around the line. If your child can’t cut out you can help him.

Stick the starfish onto the blue sheet of paper (the sea).

Step 2

Take a small piece of pink construction paper and tear off small stripes (sunbeams). Encourage your child to tear off stripes by himself.

Let your kid crumple these paper stripes to make paper balls. Crumpled paper balls represent sensitive tube feet of the starfish.

Stick these paper balls onto the star. Help your child to place the tube feet on the starfish rays.

Step 3

Make the face of the star. Let your kid stick wiggle eyes onto the star.

Draw a mouth on the red construction paper, cut it out and let the kid stick it onto the starfish, too.

Draw a nose with a marker.

Watch this video on Youtube

See also:

Sea animals song