Good afternoon, everyone! I hope your weekend was as restorative as mine!
Today I wanted to share a few fun ways to teach colors in a foreign language classroom.
Color Swatches for Notes
The first way I like to teach colors is by having the kids color swatches on their paper and label them for their notebooks. They enjoy this, and we avoid using English.
A quick application activity (and good time-filler or Friday activity) is to have the students draw a picture, and instead of coloring it in, they write the name of the color in the target language.
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| This is not the best example, but you can get the idea. |
Manipulatives
One of my absolute favorite ways to practice colors is with manipulatives. A few years back, I cut up construction paper and put it into baggies so each student would have a swatch of all the main colors. After passing out the bags to my students, I call out a color in the target language (or project it using a powerpoint) and they have to hold up that color. After a little bit, I like to make it tricky by giving them color “equations” (ie: red + blue =??).
Scoot with Clip Art
My final favorite activity is to play scoot using clip art. Each card has a piece of clip art on it, and they have to write one (or two) colors from the picture on their answer sheet. You can also incorporate this practice later in the year with thematic clip art related to your current unit. For example, if students were learning animals in Spanish, you could use animal clip art and students would write both the name of the animal as well as the color(s).
How do you like to teach colors?
