was written in the previous
. When I chatted with many parents before, I found that the most difficult part of English enlightenment for many parents is that I don’t know how to start.
nursery rhymes, animations, picture books, graded reading materials.
looks a lot of logic, but I still feel that I have no clue when I implement it.
The knowledge drawn from nursery rhymes, animations, and books is scattered. If you don’t organize them, it feels like learning a little bit from the east and a little bit from the west, and you don’t know what you learned in the end.
At this time, we need point theme English enlightenment .
Words with a sense of order will be faster, easier, and more fulfilling for children to learn, such as letters, numbers, and seasons.
For most parents, the requirements for English enlightenment are based on the three principles of: practical, daily, and easy to operate.
Then we might as well start with the orderly words around us, such as - color.
color vocabulary learning can be said to be the easiest and most daily. If you look up and wrap around you around, you will find that your home contains various colors.
When you walk out, there are materials available everywhere, including green grass, red flowers, gray soil, and brown trees in the park. Black cars, white cars, and blue cars in the parking lot. Different colors and patterns on our clothes.
The necessary step for children to learn English is to input vocabulary, but during the enlightenment period, we do not have to make the process of learning words boring.
Introduction to children color
Children accept language earlier than express language. When they were young, the child could not speak, but he could understand whatever we said to him. Even if they can't speak, it's enough to make them understand what we mean.
In Chinese, we will introduce the color to the child and say, "This is a red car, that is a purple flower, look at the green bird."
Then in English, we can say to the child:
"This is a car and its colour is red."
"This is a pepper and its colour is red."
(colour and color are both correct spellings, color is American, colour is British)
The purpose of telling the color separates the object is to let the child slowly understand the concept of color, know that colour is color, not shape or size, and two unrelated items can also be of the same color.
can also make our color book "my first book of colour"
Look for different colors of jam paper, fabric, and even things of different materials, and paste them on the notebook in the form of color classification.
Then mark the color on each page and draw your favorite pattern at the bottom, which feels a bit like the current account:
Usually we can also use colors to play games and expand with our children.
Reaction challenges often occur on major variety shows, saying color games:
color games:
match games:
word games:
constantly repeating color-like words. Even if the children don’t understand, parents can demonstrate it first. Children who are full of exploration are very interested in such games. They quickly learn it and strengthen their understanding of colors.
Consolidation Vocabulary link
Playing manual expansion games with children is repeating input color vocabulary. How to help children consolidate and achieve the effect of outputting , these practices are not boring and effective methods.
. Theme nursery rhyme
There are many English nursery rhymes about color, Rainbow, Rainbow, I can sing a rainbow (the songs related to color seem to be related to rainbow).
My favorite is this catchy Rainbow song, with a very beautiful melody. It is usually singed as a sleeping song to the child before going to bed.
There are no mouth twisting words, and the sentence structure is also very ordinary, including 7 common colors, children's songs that Xiaobai's mother can learn.
is a little more advanced, I like the song CoComelon's colours song.
integrates colors into life, find fruits of different colors, and make a rainbow juice popsicle.
incorporates more sentence patterns and richer vocabulary:
It’s time for rainbow popsicles
Yummy yummy colorful popsicles
What color do we need? (What color do we need?)
RED! (red!)
We need to find a fruit that is red (we need to find red fruit)
Look! Some strawberries! (Look! Strawberries!)
Learning this song is not only able to sing with children, but also interact in daily life.
. Theme picture book
Picture book about color, what I think of is Brown Bear Brown Bear, What do you see?
This picture book is also Liao Caixing teacher's children's first nursery rhyme picture book. The sentences are interesting, the animals in the illustrations are honest and cute, and each animal has a representative color, and many children are attracted immediately.
Mem Where is the green sheep of Fox?
100 best children's picture books. The book has cute illustrations in style, not only colored words, but also visualizes various abstract adjectives. Adding contrast words, it is very helpful for children to master new vocabulary.
David Mckee's Elmer's Colors
Elmer is a colorful elephant who takes children to nature to learn about colors, white snow, black night sky, and green grass. Everyone, like Elmer, can live in colorful life and have more than one color.
Ellen Stoll Walsh's Mouse Paint
Before, we wrote an article to introduce this book "Why do American art teachers recommend children to read this art enlightenment picture book? (1-3 years old)》. The story starts with three "little white mice", they dyed three primary colors red, yellow and blue, and then kept mixing with other colors. The story looks simple, but it is very fun to read, and it is a picture book that cannot be missed by friends of all ages.
In addition to these, there are Leo Lionni's classic Blue and Yellow Xiaolan and Xiaohuang, A Color of His Own, Herve Tullet's Mix It Up and Press Here very special interactive picture books, Grandpa Carl's The Mixed-Up Chameleon, Barney Saltzberg's Beautiful Oops (How to turn mistakes into art), Peter the cat:I love my white shoes (classic emotional intelligence picture books), Drew Daywalt's The Day the Crayons Quit... are all very outstanding and beautiful color themed picture books.
. I spy!
I spy is a familiar game. Children in English-speaking countries will play a language game when they were young.
Parents sit with children. The parents find an item next to them, and then describe it to their children, asking them to guess what it is, say the name of the item, or point it out.
In this process, parents can describe the color, size, location, function, etc. of the item.
"I spy with my little eyes, something yellow." (I saw something yellow), and the children looked for the corresponding item. This not only consolidates the vocabulary about colors, but also allows children to learn how to classify items.
You can play with your children when you take the bus, queue up, or be bored.
. Family Interactive
Seven days a week, and every day is indicated in different colors on the calendar. After that, you can do something related to this color every day with your child.
For example, if the sticker on Monday is yellow, you can eat a banana or wear a yellow dress.
If the difficulty is a little higher, you can use these colors to paint, and you can also choose special colorful colors, such as stripes and polka dots.
This method not only consolidates and reviews children's vocabulary about colors, but also makes children feel fresh and expectant every day, becoming one of the daily fun of the family.
Last
There are opportunities to give children English enlightenment everywhere in life. It seems simple, but as long as you make good use of it, it can play a good role.
