Help on a Spanish Lesson in Colors

[AspiringTeacher]

Hello,

I'm a non-graduating senior who will be doing their student teaching in the fall of next year, and right now I am completing a secondary clinical that requires me to attend school for 45 hours and teach three lesson plans. I am covering a dual emphasis in English and Spanish, as I would like to teach both when I get out. My cooperating Spanish teacher asked me if I could teach a lesson in Spanish about colors. I don't have many resources to go on save for some websites. All I remember from learning the colors in Spanish I my freshman year of high school is a song called "De Colores" I'm pretty sure that I can find the song and lyrics, but I need more meat to the lesson. I was just wondering if any Spanish or other foreign language teachers could provide me with some ideas or websites that offer more ideas? The teacher likes to use the TPRS method as well, which I think is a wonderful method, do any of you know any TPRS stories about color?

Thank you,

Jen

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I like to do a "magic trick" with food coloring and water. Dry food coloring in the bottom up clear plastic cups and hide the bottoms from the kids- then 1 by 1 add clear water to the cups and watch how they turn colors-like magic! Then mix colors and have students predict the results. You can even have a little dried bleach in the bottom of a cup and pour some colored water in it and watch it turn clear again- use lots of vocab and have students predict- best with elementary, but even older kids like it.

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Dear Jen "Newbie"
Here is something simple that I have found effective. Get some computer pages of the different colors (as many colors as you can). Cut them up into squares so that every student gets cards of different colors. You can have them raise their cards as a class or individually. (This also helps with the command "Levanta la tarjeta ........"
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Hello,

I'm a non-graduating senior who will be doing their student teaching in the fall of next year, and right now I am completing a secondary clinical that requires me to attend school for 45 hours and teach three lesson plans. I am covering a dual emphasis in English and Spanish, as I would like to teach both when I get out. My cooperating Spanish teacher asked me if I could teach a lesson in Spanish about colors. I don't have many resources to go on save for some websites. All I remember from learning the colors in Spanish I my freshman year of high school is a song called "De Colores" I'm pretty sure that I can find the song and lyrics, but I need more meat to the lesson. I was just wondering if any Spanish or other foreign language teachers could provide me with some ideas or websites that offer more ideas? The teacher likes to use the TPRS method as well, which I think is a wonderful method, do any of you know any TPRS stories about color?

Thank you,

Jen

Teaching colors
I would suggest that you buy a set of ballons. Get as many colors as you can. Then blow them up and tie them. With masking tape put them up on the walls in the classroom. When the students come in they will think it is the making of a party. You should have two green ones to teach light and dark. Totally in Spanish begin talking about the colors. Use Halloween to talk about orange and black etc. As you describe the colors ask who can go up and touch a certain color. The kids will respond. Once they have internalized the colors you can move to other objects in the classroom and clothing etc. You can even have crayons in the classroom with a sheet of known vocabulary. Ask them to color certain objects certain colors.