Kindergarten ESL Lesson Plan: All About Me (Family, Feelings and Body Parts)

Learning Objectives

• Students will be able to identify and say family words (Mom, Dad, sister, brother, baby, grandma, grandpa) when shown a picture.
• Students will be able to point to and name basic body parts (head, eyes, ears, nose, mouth, hands, feet).
• Students will be able to express a feeling (happy, sad, excited, tired) using a picture or a one-word answer.
• Students will be able to complete the sentence frame "I am ___" or "This is my ___" with support.

Lesson Procedure

• Read through both session sequences before teaching, and gather the materials listed (the All About Me flashcards, Vocabulary PowerPoint, This Is Me worksheet, My Family worksheet, and Ask Your Friend! speaking sheet all pair with this plan). Session 1 and Session 2 can be taught on separate days or combined into one longer lesson with a movement break in between. Follow the Time / Stage / Teacher Does / Students Do table left to right — it's designed to be glanced at while teaching, not read aloud.

Assessment

Use the accompanying All About Me Grading Rubric to record observations during the guided and independent practice stages of both sessions — this plan is built to feed directly into that rubric.

Differentiation

SUPPORT: Pair students who need extra help with a peer who can model the target word or translate briefly; reduce independent worksheet items and lean on pointing and speaking instead of writing; keep flashcards visible as a picture word bank throughout.
ON-LEVEL: Complete all worksheet activities and the pair speaking sheet using the modelled sentence frames.
CHALLENGE: Encourage a full sentence instead of a one-word answer ("I am happy today" instead of "happy"); ask the student to introduce a family member to the class using two describing words.

Classroom Activity Ideas

• Turn the closing review into a movement game: call out a family, feeling, or body-part word and have children act it out (point to the body part, make the feeling face, or mime rocking a "baby") instead of just saying it back.

Teacher Tips

Keep a set of the flashcards taped to the board throughout both sessions, even during independent work — Kindergarten children often just need a quick glance at a picture to retrieve a word they already know, rather than a full re-teach.

What's Included

• 3-page lesson plan (Lesson Overview, Learning Objectives, Materials, Key Vocabulary, two full session sequences, Differentiation, Assessment, Teacher's Notes)
• Editable DOCX version
• Print-ready PDF version

Additional Files

• All About Me Lesson Plan.docx (DOCX)

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