4 years olds learn colors

LESSON PLAN

Duration: 40 minutes

Grade/Age: 4 years old

Number of students:  13

Topic: Colors

Materials: Video, worksheet, color cards, colored pencils, color wheel, clothes pin, paper bag.

Aim: To teach colors.

Warm Up

Teacher comes to the class and says 'Hello! How are you today?' Students give answers. Then teacher reviews of the previous lesson and asks some questions about numbers. The students reply and then, teacher announces today's topic.

Vocabulary Teaching

Vocabularies: Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, pink

Teacher first shows the color wheel pointing out the colors and asks 'What are these?' The students respond. Teacher says ' Colors! Let's learn the colors!' Teacher hangs the wheel and spins it. She says the color's name that is the top of the wheel and wants the students to repeat. Teacher asks 'What color is it? Students say 'It is ....' It continues until all the colors are done.

Teaching vocabulary activity:

After teaching the colors, teacher shows a paper bag and there are some clothes pins in it and on the clothes pins there are some colorful pictures representing the target colors.

Teacher wants to measure if the students have perceived the colors or not.

Teacher gives the instruction:

One of you will come here, take one and attach it to the right color.

(At the same time, teacher shows how to do.)

The students come to the stage one by one and take one.  Teacher asks' What color is it?' The students answers ' It is ...' and she/ he attaches to the right color on the wheel.

Art Craft Activity:

Objective:

At the end of the lesson, students will be able to choose the right color that had been numbered on the worksheet. This activity depends on the previous lesson 'Numbers.'

Teacher gives instruction:

We have an art-craft activity. I'll give you these papers. Number 1 is red. Color the 1 red. Number 2 is orange, color 2 orange.

Teacher walks around the class and asks ' What color is it?' The students answer.

Activity 2: Song

Objective: At the end of the lesson ,students will be able to recall the colors with the song.

Teacher starts the music and they make a circle by holding each other's hands they sing the song with the teacher.

Teacher gives instruction:

Song time! Let's make a circle, hold our hands and sing our song!

Song Script:

Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, pink (twice)

It's a rainbow, it's a rainbow

A beautiful rainbow in the sky.

Red

Orange

Yellow

Green

Blue

Purple

Pink

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRNy2i75tCc (video)

Game: (catching colors)

Objective: At the end of the lesson students will be able to select the right color that they have heard.

Teacher sticks some color cards on the walls, on the desks, on the bookcase. She wants everybody to stand up. When she says a color name, The students try to find that color and touch it.

Teacher gives instruction:

I'll say a color name. Find and touch it.

Contingency plan:

Objective: At the end of the lesson students will be able to retell the name of the colors.

Teacher uses the color wheel to play the game. She hangs it on the wall where the students could reach easily. She makes them pair. She wants one of the pairs to spin the wheel and wants the other one to ask the question 'What color is it?' His/ her pair answer 'It is...' It goes on until all pairs do that.