Teacher's tips

Level of education: Elementary School

Age: 04 to 06 years old

Children often learn languages ​​through games, songs and repetition. The greater your contact with the language, the better your sound recognition skills, words and consequently, pronunciation. By unifying these resources with the use of colors, which is an excellent attraction for children, COLOR GAME will be an effective tool for learning. Use it as an ally for the work of recognizing, naming and pronouncing colors, contributing to the cognitive development of the little ones! [FIM-DICA]

Learner outcomes

Develop reading skills;

Develop listening skills;

Identify, name and differentiate colors;

Develop visual perceptions;

Develop motor coordination through the use of the mouse and its commands;

Stimulate learning through games;

Teachers' goals

Work with the different colors through the visual and auditory stimulus that the game offers;

Promote playful and meaningful learning;

Work on the correct pronunciation of colors;

Fix knowledge acquired in the classroom;

Suggestions of approaches for the teacher

• Make homemade play dough, dividing it into parts once ready, and dyeing it in different colors.

• Fill balloons with the color you are working on and let the children paint the balloon, composing the figure of a face. Let take home.

• Send a note to the parents, asking them to send the children with the color clothes they are working on.

• Work with the poetry “The butterflies” by Vinícius de Moraes.

• Color Bingo in English.

• Assemble a bowling alley to work the colors, using a transparent pet bottle with colored water (use edible aniline).

• Sing songs that talk about colors. An example: “Mixing the colors” – Xuxa.

• When working with a color, bring gelatin that represents the color worked.

• Painting with gouache and colored glue.

• Use ink to mix and discover new colors.

• Tell the story “Good morning all colors” by Ruth Rocha.

• Make a poster with different colors and ask the students to roll balls of crepe paper in different colors and paste the corresponding color on the poster.

• Paint a rainbow together and display it on the school wall.

• Basketball of colors: build boxes wrapped with colored paper, make a hole in the center of each one. Then make colored balls and ask each student to throw a ball in the corresponding box. Whoever hits the most number of correct balls inside the box wins.

• Sing songs about colors in English (I can sing a rainbow / I see something pink)

More about the content

Colors are present in everything around us. They are one of the basic concepts and prerequisites, which the child needs to develop. In addition, color is also important for us to express our ideas and feelings, discovering the meaning they have for each person. The use of colors has a direct link in the development of the child.

Stimuli arising from the presence of colored figures contribute to the improvement of motor and cognitive capacity, reasoning, speech, hearing, among other functions. This happens because the child is completely influenced by colors from the initial stage of life, extending for many years. The bright, vibrant colors are sure to get your little one's attention. For this reason, the family and the school must use and abuse the “colorful world” as an important part in the education of children as well.

Other colors that can already be included in the vocabulary of the little ones:

beige: beige

Gray: Gray

Golden: Gold

Brown: Brown

silver: silver

Purple: Purple