Ideas for teaching The Rainbow Colors Song ESL

The Rainbow Colors Song

Music is a great tool to use for teaching children the English language. When teaching children a new song, all activities should be carefully planned and managed for children to be motivated for learning.

Before introducing to children a new song, you may want to “pre-teach” some of the words. For example, if you are going to sing "The rainbow song", you should first teach children colors or revise them through playing a game for example. As always, playing is one of the best ways for learning. In that way, you will warm up children and create good group dynamics.

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The Rainbow Colors Song

Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, "clap" (clap with your hands).

(clap with your hands and/or say "yes").

Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, (clap with your hands).

It's a rainbow, it’s a rainbow.  (clap with your hands)

A beautiful rainbow in the sky. (draw an arch with your hands pointing to the sky)

After revising colors, give children rainbow colors (flashcards/blocks) for each child one color. Use color flashcards lined up as they go in the song: red. orange, yellow, green, blue, purple. Start singing the song first slowly. When children hear the color they have, they need to stand up. After warming-up, start singing the song faster, and faster - this part is the most interesting to the children.
After singing, reinforce overall development in other parts of your lesson such as in art activity, a worksheet or other games e.g. "bingo game". 

The Rainbow Colors
Watercolor and crayons combination

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