Colours and Animals

Colours and animals are two themes which go perfectly together in the young learner classroom.  Not only do they introduce language which we will see over and over throughout the year, it's also an opportunity to work with one of our favourite children's stories.

During this week we looked at all the animals from the book as well as all the primary and secondary colours as well as some shades.

• red
• orange
• yellow
• green
• blue
• purple
• pink
• black
• white

This is their first introduction to the adjective + noun word order in English, i.e: Brown Bear NOT Bear Brown.  You would be surprised how quickly the children pick this up and how easily they apply the 'rule' to other things e.g. brown hair or big circle.

One of the most popular centers this week was the button sorting.  The children use their fingers or tongs to sort the buttons by colour.  This is also great for their fine motor skills!

The children experimented with rollers, brushes and brown paint this week.  We did some wild and free painting on big sheets of paper which will be used later to make our brown bear puppets!