Unit 1 - Colours!
Key language
Language
Children’s language
yellow, blue, sun, sky, green, tree, red, apples
Revision
Hello, bye
Lesson 1
Lesson 2
Lesson 3
Lesson 4
Classroom language
Susan, show me yellow. The sun is yellow. Blue for the sky. Green is for the colour of the tree. Kenny, what is
your favourite colour? Kenny wants an apple!
Unit Aims
ñ To present colours
ñ To practise identifying and matching colours
ñ To observe and record colour and shapes from direct experience
ñ To develop gross motor skills through miming actions in the songs and story
ñ To improve fine motor skills by tracing and colouring in
ñ To develop creative skills by making a colour streamer
ñ To develop observational skills through tracing and colouring in activities
ñ To familiarise the children with the English class routine
ñ To develop social skills by having children follow commands
ñ To encourage the children to cooperate by singing songs and playing games
Main attitudes
ñ Willingness to participate
ñ Enjoyment of the songs, activities and story
ñ Polite behaviour and respect for others
ñ Development of confidence in what the children can do
Lessons 5 & 6
Main Evaluation criteria
Children should:
ñ identify and name colours
ñ start to interact with others
ñ be able to use their body to communicate verbally and nonverbally
ñ respond appropriately to classroom language
ñ perform actions and mime for songs, games and dramatic play
Showtime (Lesson 7 – Optional)
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Across the Curriculum
(Lesson 8 – Optional)
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Unit 1 - Colours!
3 Listen to the Hello, yellow! song. (Track 08)
Go through the song and demonstrate the
following actions:
Lesson 1
Hello, yellow! (wave)
Yellow for the sun. (trace an imaginary circle with
your hands)
Hello, yellow! (wave)
Yellow is fun! (clap your hands)
Language
Children’s language
ñ New
yellow, blue, sun, sky
ñ Revision
hello, bye
Hello, blue! (wave)
Blue for the sky. (point to sky)
Hello, blue! (wave)
Hello, hi! (wave)
Classroom language
ñ Susan, show me yellow. The sun is yellow.
Play the song and encourage the children to
copy you. Play the Hello, Yellow! song again.
Encourage the children to listen and join in with
the actions. Time permitting, put up the flashcards
(4-7). Play the song a third time and use the
flashcards as prompts to help the children sing
along while doing the actions.
Extra materials checklist
Kenny puppet
Interactive Poster
Picture Flashcards 4-7 (yellow, sun, blue,
sky)
4 Play Musical Colours.
Class CD
Place the yellow flashcard on one wall and the
blue on the opposite. Play the song again. The
children move around. Pause the music and
shout out Yellow! The children must move to the
appropriate wall. Repeat with blue.
Happy Hearts animal park poster
Worksheet 1
Before going into class
Put picture flashcards 4-7 into the basket of the
Interactive Poster.
Circle Time
1 Hello, everyone. (Track 02)
Ask the children to hold hands and form a circle.
Then everyone sits down. As you are doing this,
say the following chant:
Stand in a circle,
Stand with me.
Now sit in the circle,
One, two, three!
Take the Kenny puppet out of his home (See
Starter Unit Lesson 1.) and sing the Hello! song
encouraging the children to sing along. Go
around pretending to be Kenny and greet the
children.
Put up the Happy Hearts animal farm poster. Point
to it and read the title. Remind the children what
animal farm means. Tell the children that in every
unit they will invite a new animal friend to the
animal farm. Put up the Kenny flashcard on the
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5 Worksheet 1 page 5
Show the children Worksheet 1. Point to the sun
and encourage the children to name it. Repeat
with sky. Say The sun is yellow. Take a yellow
coloured pencil and pretend to colour the sun.
Repeat for The sky is blue.
Hand out Worksheet 1 to the children. Allow the
children some time to work on their own. Walk
around the classroom as the children are working
and help them if necessary.
Play the Hello, yellow! song (Track 08). Encourage
the children to listen to the song and point to the
sun and the sky.
Give the children their folders and ask them to put
their worksheets in them.
6 Bye-bye, everyone. (Track 06)
Hold up the Kenny puppet and say Thank you,
Kenny. Bye-bye. Ask the children to say goodbye
to Kenny. Play the Bye-bye! song. Sing the song
while waving goodbye. Encourage the children
to wave and sing along.
Table Time
first frame. Point to it and say Hello, Kenny.
Welcome to the Happy Hearts animal farm!
Encourage the children to wave to Kenny and
say Hello.
2 Play What’s in my basket?
Put up the Interactive Poster. Say the following
chant:
What’s in my basket?
Come and see.
What’s in my basket?
One, two, three!
Use the Kenny puppet and take the yellow
flashcard out of the basket. Show it to the
children and say yellow. Ask the children to
repeat after you. Show children a yellow
coloured pen/crayon and say yellow again. The
children repeat after you. Follow the same
procedure with the rest of the flashcards.
Ask the children to go back to their seats using
the following chant:
Go to the table,
Sit down, please.
Go to the table,
One, two, three!
Kenny’s Corner
Pass the flashcards
The children sit in a circle. Play the Hello, I’m Kenny! song (Track 04). The children pass the Kenny puppet
around. Pause the song. Whoever has the puppet says Hello, Kenny. I’m (Mark).
Whispering Game
Whisper a colour (yellow, blue) into a child’s ear. Have him/her whisper it into
the next child’s ear and so on. When the word reaches the last child, he/she
says the word.
Put the flashcards in front of you. Ask a child to
come and point to the corresponding flashcard.
Say (Susan), show me yellow.
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5 Remove the Kenny press out.
Give children their press outs. Demonstrate what
to do using your own copy. Put your fingers
through the holes and have Kenny stand on the
table. Look at it and say Hello, Kenny! Encourage
the children to do the same. Go around the
tables providing any necessary help.
Lesson 2
Language
Children’s language
ñ Revision
yellow, blue, sun, sky
7 Bye-bye, everyone. (Track 06)
Hold up Kenny the puppet and say Thank you,
Kenny. Bye-bye. Ask the children to say goodbye
to Kenny. Play the Bye-bye! song. Sing the song
while waving goodbye. Encourage the children
to wave and sing along.
6 Listen to the Hello, yellow! song. (Track 08)
Classroom language
ñ Yellow for the sun. Blue for the sky.
Play the Hello, yellow! song. Encourage the
children to move their press outs to music. Put the
children in pairs. Play the song again. The children
take it in turns to ‘perform’ a verse, i.e. move their
press outs to the music of a verse.
Extra materials checklist
Kenny puppet
Give the children their folders and ask them to put
their press outs in them.
Interactive Poster
Picture Flashcards 4-7 (yellow, sun blue, sky)
Class CD
Four cards with yellow and blue splodges
Plastic cups, clothes pegs
Kenny’s Corner: Extra Worksheet 1, a copy per child
Kenny’s Corner
Before going into class
Put picture flashcards 4-7 into the basket of the
Interactive Poster.
Circle Time
1 Hello, everyone. (Track 02)
Ask the children to hold hands and form a circle.
Then everyone sits down. As you are doing this say
the Circle Time chant from Lesson 1. With the help
of the Kenny puppet sing the Hello! song
encouraging the children to sing along. Go around
pretending to be Kenny and greet the children.
2 Play What’s in my basket?
Put up the Interactive poster. Say the following
chant:
What’s in my basket?
Come and see.
What’s in my basket?
One, two, three!
Use the Kenny puppet and take out the yellow
flashcard. Show it to the children and say yellow.
Encourage the children to repeat. Point to
something yellow and repeat the word. The
children repeat after you. Repeat with the rest of
the flashcards.
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3 Play What’s next?
You will need four cards with yellow and blue
splodges. Show the first card (yellow) and say
yellow. Put it on the board. Then show the card with
the blue splodge and say blue. Put it up on the
board. Continue with the next card (yellow). Ask the
children to tell you which card comes next (blue).
4 Play Colour Match.*
Sing a Song!
Play the karaoke version of the Hello, yellow! song (Track 09). Lead
them into singing the song and miming the actions. Alternatively, sing
part of the song and leave some gaps for the children to join in.
e.g. Yellow for… .
Yellow for the Sun (Extra Worksheet 1 on p. 133)
If you have time, photocopy and hand out Extra Worksheet 1. Point
to the suns and elicit the word sun. Ask What colour is the sun? Show
a yellow crayon and elicit the answer. Explain the activity. Ask the
children to trace and colour in the suns. As an extension, ask the
children to colour in the rest of the page blue. Say Blue for the sky.
You will need some plastic
cups and some clothes pegs.
Draw some yellow and blue
circles around the top of each
plastic cup. Colour the clothes
pegs yellow or blue. Give each child a plastic
cup and some clothes pegs. Explain the activity.
The children should match the clothes pegs to
each of the coloured dots by putting a clothes
peg above each dot. Ask from some children to
present their craftwork and name the colours.
* If you are running out of time, you can skip this activity.
Table Time
Ask the children to go back to their seats using
the Table Time chant from Lesson 1.
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Unit 1 - Colours!
Green for the tree, (extend your hands as if you
have long branches)
Red and green
For you and me! (point to the children and to
yourself)
Lesson 3
Language
Play the song and encourage the children to
copy you. Play the Two pretty colours! song
again. Encourage the children to listen and join in
with the actions. Time permitting, put up the
flashcards (green, tree, red, apples). Play the
song a third time and use the flashcards as a
prompt to help the children sing along while
doing the actions.
Children’s language
ñ New
green, tree, red, apples
ñ Revision
yellow, blue
Teacher’s language
ñ Green is for the colour of the tree. Red
is for the apples on the tree.
4 Play Pass the Colour.
Extra materials checklist
Ask the children to sit in a circle. Pass the red,
green, blue and yellow flashcards. Play the
karaoke version of the Two pretty colours! song
(Track 11). The children pass the cards around.
Pause the music. The children holding the
flashcards must stand up and say the colour they
are holding.
Kenny puppet
Interactive Poster
Picture Flashcards 4, 6, 8-11 (yellow,
blue, green, tree, red, apples)
Class CD
5 Worksheet 2 page 7
Show Worksheet 2 to the children. Point to the
coloured tree in the picture and elicit the words
tree and apples. Say Green is for the (tree). Red is
for the (apples). Encourage the children to
complete your sentences. Use your finger and
pretend you are tracing the tree and the apples.
Explain to the children that they should trace and
colour in the tree and the apples on the right.
Hand out Worksheet 2 to the children. Allow the
children some time to work on their own. Walk
around the classroom and praise the children.
Give the children their folders and ask them to put
their worksheets in them.
6 Bye-bye, everyone. (Track 06)
Hold up the Kenny puppet and say Thank you,
Kenny. Bye-bye. Ask the children to say goodbye
to Kenny. Play the Bye-bye! song. Sing the song
while waving goodbye. Encourage the children
to wave and sing along.
Table Time
Worksheet 2
Kenny’s Corner: A paper bag with yellow, blue, red and green items such as an apple, a banana, etc
Ask the children to go back to their seats using
the Table Time chant from Lesson 1.
Before going into class
Put picture flashcards 8-11 into the basket of
the Interactive Poster.
Circle Time
1 Hello, everyone. (Track 02)
Ask the children to hold hands and form a circle.
Then everyone sits down. As you are doing this
say the Circle Time chant from Lesson 1.
With the help of the Kenny puppet sing the Hello!
song encouraging the children to sing along.
Walk around pretending to be Kenny and greet
the children.
2 Play What’s in my basket?
Put up the Interactive Poster. Say the following
chant:
What’s in my basket?
Come and see.
What’s in my basket?
One, two, three!
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Use the Kenny puppet and take the green
flashcard out of the basket. Show it to the
children and say green. Encourage the children
to repeat. Next, take the tree flashcard out of the
basket. Show it to the children and say tree.
Encourage the children to say the word. Repeat
for the red and apples flashcards.
Point to the tree flashcard and say Green is for the
colour of the tree. Encourage the children to
repeat after you. Point to the apples flashcard and
say Red is for the apples on the tree. Encourage
the children to repeat.
3 Listen to the Two pretty colours! (Track 10)
Kenny’s Corner
Colour Bag
Place various yellow, blue, green and red items in a bag. For example, a banana, an
apple, etc. Ask a child to come and take out an object. He/She says what colour it is.
Repeat with some more children.
Whispering Game
Whisper a colour into a child’s ear. Have him/her whisper it into the
next child’s ear and so on. When the word reaches the last child,
he/she says the word.
Go through the song and demonstrate the
following actions.
Green is for the colour of the
Tree, tree, tree! (extend your hands as if you have
long branches)
Red is for the apples on the
Tree, tree, tree! (mime putting an apple on your
head)
Red for the apples, (mime holding an apple)
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Unit 1 - Colours!
cut long pieces of red, yellow, green and blue
crepe paper streamers and staple them onto the
paper plate.
Lesson 4 – Toy Box
As an extension, the children can present their
streamers to their friends.
Language
Note: Don’t let the children take their colour
streamers home yet if you are planning to do
Optional Lesson 7. They will need them there.
Children’s language
ñ Revision
yellow, sun, blue, sky, green, tree, red, apples
6 Bye-bye, everyone. (Track 06)
Hold up the Kenny puppet and say Thank you,
Kenny. Bye-bye. Ask the children to say goodbye
to Kenny. Play the Bye-bye! song. Sing the song
while waving goodbye. Encourage the children
to wave and sing along.
Extra materials checklist
Kenny puppet
Kenny’s Corner
Interactive Poster
Kim’s Game
Pin up the colour flashcards. Ask the children to look at them for a while before they close
their eyes. Take one of the flashcards away. Ask a child to tell you which one is missing.
Picture Flashcards 4-11 (yellow, sun, blue, sky,
green, tree, red, apples)
Class CD
A piece of chalk or duct tape and a beanbag/soft ball
A paper plate and some coloured paper streamers, a set for each child
Circle Time
Where’s the sun?
Use the sun, tree and apples flashcards. Show the children the three
flashcards. Put them face down on the table so that the children
can’t see the pictures. Mix the flashcards up. Ask the children which
flashcard is the sun.
3 Listen to the Two pretty colours! song.
(Track 10)
1 Hello, everyone. (Track 02)
Ask the children to hold hands and form a circle.
Then everyone sits down. As you are doing this
say the Circle Time chant from Lesson 1.
With the help of the Kenny puppet sing the Hello!
song encouraging the children to sing along.
Walk around pretending to be Kenny and greet
the children.
2 Revision of previous lessons.
Put the yellow, red, blue, green picture flashcards
on different walls in the room. Ask the children to
stand up. Ask Kenny, what is your favourite
colour? Have Kenny ‘whisper’ a colour to you.
Say the colour, e.g. blue. Encourage the children
to go and stand near the (blue) flashcard and
repeat the word.
Next, take out the sun, sky, tree, apples picture
flashcards, one at a time and elicit the names.
Ask What colour is the sky? Encourage the
children to say blue. Give the sky flashcard to a
child and ask him/her to put it up on the wall next
to the corresponding colour. Repeat for the other
flashcards.
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Play the Two pretty colours! song. Encourage the
children to mime the actions. Play the song again
and encourage the children to sing along joining
in with the actions.
4 Play Colour Toss.*
Make four big circles on the floor of the classroom
(red, yellow, blue and green) using chalk or
coloured duct tape. Name a colour and give a
beanbag, a soft ball, etc to a child. The child has
to toss it inside the corresponding circle. Repeat
with different colours and children.
* If you are running out of time, you can skip this activity.
Table Time
Ask the children to go back to their seats using
the Table Time chant from Lesson 1.
5 Make your own colour streamer.
You will need a paper plate and some coloured
paper streamers, a set for each child. Show the
children your model and tell that that you are
going to make colour streamers. Help the
children make their own colour streamers by
cutting the centre out of their paper plates. Then
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Unit 1 - Colours!
Story Card 4
3 Find the stickers.
Billy:
Look at the beautiful red apples!
(point to the apples)
Storyteller: … says Billy. (point to Billy)
Kenny:
Miaow!
Storyteller: … says Kenny. (point to Kenny)
Lesson 5
Language
Children’s language
ñ Revision
yellow, sun, sky, blue, green, tree, red,
apples
Point to the apples and say Look at the beautiful
red … . Encourage the children to say apples.
Point to the apple bouncing off Billy’s head and
say Ouch! Poor Billy!
Story Card 5
Classroom language
ñ Come on everyone, it’s storytime fun;
What colour is the (sky)? Look at the
apples!
Storyteller:
Extra materials checklist
Kenny puppet
Molly and Billy:
Storyteller:
Unit 1 Story Cards
Class CD
Kenny:
Storyteller:
Kenny’s Corner: Simple sketches of a sun and a tree
Circle Time
1 Hello, everyone. (Track 02)
Ask the children to hold hands and form a circle.
Then everyone sits down. As you are doing this
say the Circle Time chant from Lesson 1.
With the help of the Kenny puppet, sing the Hello!
song. Encourage the children to sing along. Go
around pretending to be Kenny and greet the
children.
2 Listen to The apple tree story. (Track 12)
Say Come on everyone, one, two, three. It’s
storytime for you and me! Narrate the story or
play the CD. While the children are listening, point
to the corresponding Story Cards.
Story Card 1
Storyteller: Kenny is in the sun. (point to Kenny
and the sun)
Billy:
Hello Kenny, (point to Kenny and
wave)
Storyteller: … says Billy. (point to Billy)
Molly:
Hello Kenny, (point to Kenny and
wave)
Storyteller: … says Molly. (point to Molly)
Molly:
Look at the beautiful yellow sun!
(point to sun)
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Point to the characters and elicit their names.
Point to the sun and say Look at the sun. It’s … .
Encourage the children to complete your
sentence (yellow).
4 Trace and colour the apples.
An apple for Molly. (point to
apple and Molly)
An apple for Billy (point to apple
and Billy) and an apple for
Kenny! (point to apple and
Kenny)
What a beautiful day!
… say Molly and Billy. (point to
Molly and Billy)
Miaow!
… says Kenny. (point to Kenny)
Point to Molly and mime offering an apple as you
say An apple for … . Encourage the children to
say Molly. Repeat with Billy and Kenny. Repeat
the story. Encourage the children to join in with
the sounds, e.g. miaow, ouch, etc.
Story Card 2
Table Time
Billy:
Ask the children to go back to their seats using
the Table Time chant from Lesson 1.
Look at the beautiful blue sky! (point
to the sky)
Storyteller: … says Billy. (point to Billy)
Billy:
What a lovely day. Let’s go for a walk!
(beckon and mime walking)
Point to the characters and elicit their names.
Point to the sky and ask What colour is the sky?
Encourage the children to say blue. Say Let’s go
for a walk! Encourage the children to mime
walking around.
Story Card 3
Molly:
Look at the beautiful green tree!
(point to the tree)
Storyteller: … says Molly. (point to Molly)
Kenny:
Miaow!
Storyteller: … says Kenny, and climbs up the tree.
(point to Kenny and mime climbing)
Hand out the story worksheets and the sticker
page to the children. Hold up the sticker page.
Point to the sun sticker and say What a beautiful
yellow sun! Pretend to take the sun sticker and
put it in the correct place on the worksheet.
Repeat with the other stickers. Now the children
put their own stickers on their worksheets. Walk
around providing any necessary help and praise
their efforts.
Point to the apples on page 11. Say Look at the
apples! Then say Let’s trace and colour the
apples. Go around the classroom as the children
are working and ask them to say what colour the
apples are. If you have time, play the story again.
Encourage the children to join whenever they are
able.
Give the children their folders and ask them to put
their worksheets in them.
5 Bye-bye, everyone. (Track 06)
Hold up the Kenny puppet and say Thank you,
Kenny. Bye-bye. Ask the children to say goodbye
to Kenny. Play the Bye-bye! song. Sing the song
while waving goodbye. Encourage the children
to wave and sing along.
Kenny’s Corner
Colour Dance
Play the karaoke version of one of the unit songs. Have the children move to
the rhythm. Stop the music and call out a colour. Children
wearing that colour sit down.
Copy me
Bring in a simple sketch of a sun and a tree. Pin it up on the
board. Ask the children to copy it. Make a class display.
Point to the tree and ask What colour is the tree?
Encourage the children to say green. Point to
Kenny and mime climbing. Say Kenny is climbing
up the … . Encourage the children to complete
your sentence (tree).
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Kenny’s Corner
Lesson 6
Coloured handprints
You will need a large piece of poster board and four trays of yellow, red, green and blue
paint. Call out a different colour each time and have the children take turns and dip their
hands in the paint and create handprints on the paper. You can write their names under
the handprints.
Language
Children’s language
ñ Revision
yellow, sun, sky, blue, green, tree, red, apples
Colour Actions
Divide the class into four colour groups and demonstrate the following actions:
Classroom language
ñ Red/green/yellow is for the apples on the tree! Kenny wants an apple!
Extra materials checklist
Kenny puppet
Yellow – the children in this group jump up and down
Blue – the children in this group wave their arms
Green – the children in this group stamp their feet
Red – the children in this group clap their hands
Play the karaoke version of one of the unit songs. The children
walk in a circle. Pause the music and name a colour. The children
that belong in that group, make the corresponding actions.
Unit 4 Story Cards
Class CD
Paper cut-out apples in red, green and yellow, basket
Extra Worksheet 2, a copy for each child
Kenny’s Corner: Large piece of poster board, four trays of yellow, red, green and blue hand paint
Circle Time
1 Hello, everyone. (Track 02)
Ask the children to hold hands and form a circle.
Then everyone sits down. As you are doing this
say the Circle Time chant from Lesson 1.
With the help of the Kenny puppet sing the Hello!
song encouraging the children to sing along.
Walk around pretending to be Kenny and greet
the children.
Ask the children to sit in a circle and hand out the
apples. Say Red is for the apples on the tree, tree,
tree! The children with the corresponding apples
hold them up and repeat the colour. Repeat with
the green and yellow apples.
Table Time
Ask the children to go back to their seats using
the Table Time chant from Lesson 1.
4 An apple for Kenny.
2 Let’s look at the story again. (Track 12)
Say the storytime chant from the previous lesson.
Put the Story Cards up where the children can
see them. Narrate the story or play the CD. Point
to the characters as they speak as well as to
vocabulary items as they are mentioned.
Mix the Story Cards up. Play the first part of the
story. Ask the children to identify the correct Story
Card. Put it first. Repeat with the rest of the Story
Cards.
3 Play What colour is my apple?
You will need to prepare some paper cut-out
apples by drawing simple sketches of apples on
red, green and yellow construction paper. Cut
the apples out and stack them in a basket.
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Pretend that Kenny wants to tell you something.
Have him ‘whisper’ to you and say Really? That’s
great! Tell children that Kenny loves apples. Say
Kenny wants an apple! Ask the children to draw an
apple. Alternatively, photocopy Extra Worksheet 2
(p. 134) and hand it out. The children trace and
colour in the apple.
As an extension, you can have the children come
and offer their apples to Kenny. Teach them to say
A (red) apple for you. Accept it and say Thank you.
5 Bye-bye, everyone. (Track 06)
Hold up Kenny the puppet and say: Thank you,
Kenny. Bye-bye. Ask the children to say goodbye
to Kenny. Play the Bye-bye! song. Sing the song
while waving goodbye. Encourage children to
wave and sing along.
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