Teaching Colors to the Young Learners

LESSON PLAN

Age level/ Grade of school:  4 years old / Preschool

Size of class:  12

Duration: 40

Topic:  Colors

Materials: Worksheets, colorful stars, colorful cardboards, paper plates, crepe papers

Vocabularies: Colors (Red, Yellow, Green, Blue, Orange, Pink, Purple)

Language: What color is it? It is…

Objectives: At the end of the lesson,

Students will be able to understand the names for colors of things.

Students will be able name the colors of things.

INTRODUCTION

Warm up:  Teacher greets the students, and then teacher shows colorful stars and tell them ‘let’s make sky with colorful stars.’

Lead in: Teacher shows the stars in different colors one by one, say ‘red’, ‘yellow’….. And students repeat after the teacher.

Activity 1: Teacher gives to one star (in different color) to every student, when teacher says ‘red’, students which have red star, stand, jump and sit down. This activity goes on until all colors are told.

Activity 2:  Make a rainbow

Teacher hands out paper plates and colorful crepe papers to the students, students cut these crepe papers, and then they paste on the paper plates. Each student will have her/his own rainbow. When students paste on the crepe papers, teacher asks ‘what color is it?’ When students say the color, teacher says ‘Yes, it is….’

Activity 3: Teacher hangs the colorful cardboards on different places of the wall; teacher gives some commands like ‘Run to the pink, red…’ ‘Go to the blue by jumping’. Teacher expects from the students to know correct colors.

Conclusion:  Teacher shows colorful stars again, and expects from the students to say name of the colors. And the lesson is over.

Contingency plan: Coloring with numbers

Teacher hands out a worksheet which including coloring with numbers, students paint the picture according to the numbers. When students paint the picture, teacher asks ‘what color is it?’ When students say the color, teacher says ‘Yes, it is….’

Art-craft activity (Making a rainbow)