We like colours, and we like to identify objects around us using colours.So, when we
don’t find our backpack, the teacher will ask “Which colour is it?”, so she can help us
finding it. When we use our favorite toys, for example our loved waffles, we would
like to build a bridge, a car, or a camera, we need specific colours: that’s why we ask
the teacher “Three orange waffles, please” or “Eight blue waffles, please”.
In order to improve our ability to name colours in English, we play a game called “Find
the colour”. The techer tells us the colour and we have to point out something in the
classroom or in the schoolyard.
Here, the teacher asked us to find something yellow, and we found this nice fire
made by paper!
We walked around for a while, looking at colours around us, when suddenly the
teacher said “Find something purple!”. We don’t have lots of purple items here, but
after a short research we found this purple folder.
WHAT about the chairs? We have different chairs, and we recognize them naming their colour.
So, if the teacher says “Sit on the blue chair” we know immediately where we have to sit.
We appreciate colours around us: when we see a butterfly, we like to point at it shouting “look, a white butterfly!”, or when we have new t-shirt and we want to show it to our teacher, we say “Look, new t-shirt!” and when the teacher asks us “Which colour is it? “we proudly reply” white, red and blue!”
As kids, colours are the first thing we notice: we describe ourselves and the world around us thanks to the colours.
For this reason, we love playing “Find the colour”and we put a lot of effort to win the game!
