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Extra Activities

• Place the flashcards on the floor and the children in a circle around them. A volunteer will lift a card, name the color, and then a classmate will look for an object in the classroom with the mentioned color. This time, and with the flashcards remaining on the floor, hold a blown white balloon. While listening to the song of the unit, the students will pass the balloon, one to the other. Once the music stops the child who has the balloon will take a card. After seeing and naming its color, this volunteer will stick the card on the balloon, to deliver the corresponding sentence:

Child: (the flashcard is blue) I have a blue balloon. The next volunteer to play will choose another card, but the previous one will remain on the balloon. The objective is to make more complex sentences each time.

Child: I have a blue balloon and a green balloon. Once this activity is finished, take the cards out of the balloon one by one, as you mention the sentences. It will be funny if the students correct your sentences:

Teacher: I have a yellow balloon.

Child: No! I have a yellow balloon. Allow the children to hide a card and then place a bottle on the floor. The students will be around it, and when you spin it, wait to see who is pointed by the bottle’s top. The rest of the classmates have to guess what is the color that this child is hiding. She/he can only answer Yes or No.

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Teacher: What color is Ana´s balloon?

Children: It is a red balloon.

Girl: No! (her card is pink)

Children: A pink balloon.

Girl: Yes!

Page 138 - Cut and glue

In this case your students must color the envelope in which they will put the chips of the Memory Game. Each envelope must be identified with the name of its owner. Finally, cut out and give shape to the envelope. The chips can be on the floor to play, with the images downwards: each child will turn over two cards, expecting to make a pair. If they do it correctly, they can continue playing, otherwise the chips go back to the first position and another student will have the opportunity to play.

Another option is to keep the chips inside the envelope: each volunteer will take a chip first, and then a second one. If these images match, they will no longer be included in the envelope, but if they do not, they will continue being inside. Make sure the children take home the envelope with the chips, to continue playing.

Page 137 - Color and cut

The children may use crayons or paint to color the figures. Make sure you tell them that they need to paint two pots with the same color, since the final objective of this activity is to play Memory Game.

Page 139 - Let’s draw!

Students will draw and color some pencils in the pencil case. The teacher will indicate the color for each one.

Teacher: My pencil is blue. / My pencil is green. / My pencil is pink. / My pencil is orange.

Templates

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This template will be used for the project.

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Ask students to color the palette and add splashes using different colors. Using the paint brush they will simulate painting as they name each color. They can expose the palettes on a notice board.

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Students will color the ice cream cone and the ice cream scoops using different colors. They will join the cone and scoops and produce sentences.

Student: My ice cream is yellow, red and blue.

• You can offer more entertaining activities for the children to make using balloons. Beforehand, draw a spots on different small pieces of paper, and color them using the colors you have taught throughout this unit. Fold a piece of paper and put it inside a balloon; continue the procedure with other balloons. Back in class and with the children standing in a circle, blow a balloon and throw it to its center. The child who catches it has to sit in the middle of the circle and try to explode the balloon. The objective of this game is for the children to look for the little piece of paper and identify the color. Bear in mind that if you prepare this activity with plenty of time, the game will be dynamic and fun.

Once the children are divided in pairs, hand a balloon to each team. At your signal the members of each group will pass the balloon from one to the other, as they repeat the name of the color of the balloon. At some point you can shout ‘Change!’, so that the students give their balloon to another couple and take a new one, in order to continue playing. Another alternative is to mention two colors each time, so as to have groups of four students and two balloons involved in the game.