Are you looking to up your lesson plan for spring with some fun activities? I have just the activities you’re looking for to cover the spring season with your students in an engaging way! So I love the spring because of the warmer weather and all of the things in nature becoming active again. I love incorporating spring activities whenever I can, and I’ll tell you about some of the things I have planned.
Teaching about spring is one of my favorite March and April themes, and the great thing is you can drag this theme out all the way to June. Spring officially starts on 20 March. Spring contains a number of celebrations you can discuss with students, such as Easter, Passover, St Patrick’s Day and Holi. If you continue reading until the end, you’ll find a freebie I made on this topic that could be fun to use!
The spring lesson plan ESL students will love
My lesson plan on spring contains lots of fun things. Get students to talk about what they associate with this season, what they like best about it, what animals do during this season, and how it’s different from the other seasons. Teach spring vocabulary, such as sprout, blossoms, and sowing. Get them to journal about the perfect day in spring. And last but not least, get students to learn about spring celebrations, such as Passover and Holi here.
Spring activities for middle school: choice board
One of my favorite activities for students to do is a spring themed choice board. I love giving my students choices in the activities they want to undertake, and a choice board gives them 9 options to choose from. What I always aim to give them is reading, listening, writing and vocabulary activities. This way, they can practice different skills and learn lots of things about spring. I found some really good videos and texts online, like this one about Easter symbols, that I’ve bundled in this spring choice board of mine.
Spring discussion cards
My all-time favorite activity for my language students is getting them to speak! I love using discussion cards to talk about spring with them. I’ll ask them questions about daylight savings, about spring being a season of new life and rebirth, and I’ll get them to compare the seasons. You can easily put questions up on the whiteboard, or if you want to check out my set of 12 spring discussion cards, click here.
A spring lesson plan needs vocabulary practice
I love teaching spring vocabulary as well. It’s great for students to learn vocabulary that is specific to a season, so they can talk about what they’re seeing around them. I have different ways of practicing those. I have task cards, both printable and digital. And I use these to get students to answer questions about spring vocabulary in a way that’s more active than a worksheet. (Even though cut and paste ones can be pretty active too).
Then I also have a dominoes and a memory game to match the words with pictures in an active, engaging and tactile way. And I also love this infographic about spring idioms to give them more insight into the English language. This way, I will have covered all the language skills and had a good time doing activities about spring.
So these were my ideas for a lesson plan for spring! I hope you found something you can use in your lessons as well. And, because you stuck around this long, have a FREEBIE on me! CLICK HERE for a printable AND digital dominoes game about Easter that I’d love for you to try!
To browse all the spring activities in my TpT store, click here.
Check out these other articles about topics to teach this time of year:
Top 5 activities for Saint Patrick’s Day
4 fun Mother’s Day teaching ideas
3 Responses
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Sounds fun!!