the colours

“Colours and numbers”

Teaching unit

The unit is created

for teach to the children

the main colours and introduce

the numbers in english language

Objectives of the unit:

- identify and name the colours of the rainbow;

- ask and answer the question: “what’s your favourite colour?”

- know that rainbow colours are seven

- identify and name the numbers from 1 to 12 in english

We start with a new ryhme about the rainbow,

which is shaped by seven colours:

Red, Yellow Pink, Green

OrangeBlue

Violet

The teacher reads the ryhme and wonder children to repeat

ColoursRed and yellow, pink and green,

Orange and violet, and blue,I can sing a rainbow,

Sing a rainbow,Sing a rainbow too.

Red and yellow, pink and green,Orange and violet, and blue,

I can see a rainbow,See a rainbow,

See a rainbow too. 

To explain the colours, we can use flashcards to show to the children

for learn the colours names;We can put on the blackboard some

flashcards, ask to children the name,

repeat the name in english,at first slowly, then quickly and write the

name near the flashcards

For focus the colours

we can use some charachters

who children know and

we can give them the charachters

to put on the exercise book

What is this colour?

Lighting Mac

Queen is RED

Garfield is

ORANGE

Tweety

is YELLOW

Shrek is

GREEN

Smurf is

BLUE

Teletubbie is

VIOLET

Pink Phanter

is PINK

We can introduce another colours: white, black and brown

Calimero is Casper Scooby Doo

BLACK is is

WHITE BROWN

In the exercise book, children

link the right name to the right colour

and after

they colour the photocopies

with the right colour

We can teach how to say:

“ what’s your favourite colour?”

We write the phrase on blackboard

and ask to repeat;

Then we wonder to repeat the answer:

“My favourite colour is”, for example Blue

Then they work in couple to ask to

the colleague the question

We can go to courtyard or gym and play to

“witch color commands?”

to evaluates that children have learned

the name of the colours and so they have fun

In another lesson we can repeat the rainbow’s

ryhme and we can teach some numbers asking:

“How many colours has the rainbow?”

The children could say “Sette”

How is it in english?

We can use flashcards and say the name and repeat:

One, two, three,

Four, five, six,

Seven, eight, nine,

Ten, eleven, twelve

The game:

The children are divided in two groups, teacher has a chest in which there are

some cards with the name of the colours. The child leader catches the card and reads

the name, the team guess the colour and put

the card with adesive tape on something that are in that colour,

in the classroom, or in the gym, or courtyard

This game

is a possible evalutation,

with the bingo

for verificate the numbers.