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Lesson:
Colors

General:
Time: 40 mins - 1 hour
Objectives: Saying colors
Structures: "Qué color es?"
Target Vocab: rojo, amarillo, rosado, verde, morado, anaranjado, azul, arco iris,
manzanas, sol, flores, pasto, uvas, zanahorias, cielo

You will need to download:

Printables:  Los colores del arco iris worksheet
 ¡Colorea los pasteles! worksheet
 Wall Circle sheet
 La Canción del Arco Iris song poster
 Warm Up & Wrap Up lesson sheet
Readers: ¿De qué color soy?
Songs: La Canción del Arco Iris (The Rainbow Song)
These can be downloaded at http://www.spanishkidstuff.com/lesson-plans.html

You will also need:

 colored crayons / pencils
 CD / Tape player or something to play the song on
 colored paper (e.g. origami paper) for all the color vocab (enough for each student to
have a set of colors)

Notes:
This is a nice, easy fun lesson - parts of it can be reused in later lessons as your students continue to learn
the color words.

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Lesson Overview:
Warm Up and Maintenance:
1. See our "Warm Up & Wrap Up" lesson sheet.

New Learning and Practice:

1. Teach the colors vocab
2. Play "Color Stand Up and Jump"
3. Play "Touch the Colors on Posters"
4. Do "Color the Circles" activity
5. Play "Point at the Colored Circles"
6. Sing "La Canción del Arco Iris" (The Rainbow Song)
7. Read classroom reader "¿De qué color soy?"
8. Do a colors worksheet

Wrap Up:
1. Set Homework: "¡Colorea los pasteles!" worksheet
2. See our "Warm Up & Wrap Up" lesson sheet.

Lesson Procedure:
Warm Up and Maintenance:
See our "Warm Up & Wrap Up" lesson sheet.

New Learning and Practice:

1. Teach the colors vocab
Depending on the age / level of your students you may want to
teach a just few words per class, building up to the full 7 color
words over a series of lessons. For older students you may also
want to teach the objects in the song (manzanas, sol, flores, pasto,
uvas, zanahorias, cielo). Prepare colored paper (origami paper is
great for this) – enough colors for each student in your class (so, 1

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rojo per student, 1 amarillo per student, etc.). Hold up the first colored paper and elicit the
color (e.g. rojo). Chorus and practice saying the color. Then pass the colored paper around
the class so each student can hold and say the color. Do this for the rest of the colors.

2. Play "Color Stand Up and Jump"

Give out all of the colored papers, 1 color per student. Tell
your students to sit down. Say a color (e.g. "rojo") and the
students holding that color have to quickly stand up, jump and
then sit down. Start off slowly and get faster and faster.

3. Play "Touch the Colors on Posters"

If your classroom has lots of colorful posters on the walls,
this is a great activity to do. Demonstrate by shouting out a
color (e.g. "rojo"). Run to a poster and touch anywhere that
has a rojo color. Do the same for another color (e.g. "azul").
Each time run to a new poster. Now have the students do
the activity – shout out a color and have them all run
around the classroom touching the colors on posters.

4. Do "Color the Circles" activity

Before class, prepare 7 large sheets of white paper (or if you are
teaching less colors that day, enough sheets of paper for the
colors you are teaching). On each sheet draw a large circle which
fills up the sheet (or download and print our wall circle sheet).
Then stick the sheets on the walls of the classroom, at a height
your students can reach. At this point of your lesson, take out
your colored pencils/crayons and demonstrate the activity. Walk
around the class and color a small part of each circle with one
color (always say the color as you are coloring). So there will be one circle with some rojo
color in it, one with amarillo, and so on. Next, tell your students to take out their colored
pencils/crayons. Have them walk around the classroom, coloring in a bit of each circle with
the same colors you used. Make sure they say the color as they do each coloring.

5. Play "Point at the Colored Circles"

Have all of your students sit down. Call out a color and
demonstrate by pointing at the colored circle on the wall. Do all of
the colors in the order of the song, with the students pointing at
the different colored circles.

6. Sing "La Canción del Arco Iris" (The Rainbow Song)

The first time you play the song, put up the La Canción del Arco Iris song poster on the
board. Quickly elicit the colors. Play the song and sing along, touching the colors as you
sing. You can even invite a student to come up to the board and touch the colors with you.

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Next, give out all 7 colors (e.g. colored paper, pencils, etc.)
to each student. Get each student to lay out the colors in
front of him/her, in the order of the song. As you pay the
song again, have all students touch each color and sing
along.

Lyrics for "La Canción del Arco Iris" Gestures for "La Canción del Arco Iris" (The Rainbow
(The Rainbow Song) Song)

Estrofa 1: There are a number of activities you can do as you sing

Rojo y amarillo y rosado y verde, along to the song:
Morado y anaranjado y azul.
Yo puedo cantar el arco iris,  Simply pat your knees or clap in time with the
Cantar el arco iris, music as you sing the song.
Canta el arco iris también.  Give each student a print out of the song
poster. As they sing along they touch each
Estrofa 2: color or picture.
Manzanas rojas y sol amarillo,  Give out the 7 colors to students (colored
Flores rosadas en el verde pasto. paper, origami paper, colored blocks, colored
Uvas moradas y zanahorias anaranjadas, pencils – anything will do) and have students
Un arco iris alto en el cielo azul. touch the colors in time with the song.
 Put colored paper up around the walls of the
Estrofa 3: classroom. Have all of your students point to
Rojo y amarillo y rosado y verde, each color as it is sung.
Morado y anaranjado y azul.
Yo puedo cantar el arco iris,
Cantar el arco iris,
Canta el arco iris también.

7. Read classroom reader "¿De qué color soy?"

This classroom readers ties in perfectly with the Rainbow Song. Before class, download and
print off the reader "¿De qué color soy?" from our website. As you go through each page,
point to the pictures and let your students shout out what color it should be:

Teacher: ¿Qué es esto? (pointing at the black and white apple on page 1)
Students:¡Es una manzana!
Teacher: ¡Sí, eso es correcto! (reading from the story) "Yo soy una manzana. ¿De qué color
soy?"
Students: Rojo!
Teacher: Vamos a ver ... (turning the page) ... ¡Muy bien! ¡Buen trabajo! (reading from the
story) ... "Soy de color rojo". ¿Puedes señalar algo rojo en el aula?
Students: (pointing to rojo things in the classroom)

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Teacher: ¡Sí, eso es correcto! Rojo (libros) y una roja (camiseta) ... (goes through all the rojo
things students are pointing at).

Get the students really involved in the story by asking lots of questions (e.g. eliciting the
objects and their colors) and getting everyone to point to colors in the classroom.

8. Do "Los colores del arco iris" worksheet

To finish off this section of the lesson, give out the worksheets.
As your students are doing the worksheets, ask questions (e.g.
"¿De qué color es?", etc.).

Wrap Up:
1. Assign Homework: "¡Colorea los pasteles!"
2. Wrap up the lesson with some ideas from our "Warm Up & Wrap Up" lesson sheet.

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