Road Trip Rainbow - Sprinkle Spanish Learning into Your Summer Fun
Aaahhhh … the peace, the tranquility, the harmony of a family vacation via car. For most of us that is never the case! Fear not amigas mías – BOCA’s Road Trip Rainbow will put a little old-fashioned fun back into the family car ride. Remember playing “count the telephone poles” or “first one to spot a red car wins” or “find a fire truck” as a child with your own family on long car rides or summer vacations via the family car? What we have done is created a fun activity and language learning sheet this month as a spin on that good old-fashioned fun - to get the coloring sheet from this lesson simply e-mail us at bocabeth@bocabeth.com, and we will send it to you free via the internet! Happy Summer!
Featured Song of the Month: I See Colors/Veo Colores
The featured song this month is from the My First Songs in Spanish BOCA BETH CD called “I See Colors/Veo Colores.” Below are the lyrics for this song that is written to the beat of “The Mulberry Bush.”
“I See Colors/Veo Colores”
(“The Mulberry Bush”)
I see the color red right here,
red right here, red right here!
I see the color red right here!
In Spanish red is rojo!
Veo el color rojo aqui,
Rojo aqui, rojo aqui.
Veo el color rojo aqui,
En inglés rojo es red.
I see the color blue right here,
blue right here, blue right here!
I see the color blue right here!
In Spanish blue is azul!
Veo el color azul aqui,
Azul aqui, azul aqui.
Veo el color azul aqui,
En inglés azul es blue.
I see the color green right here,
green right here, green right here!
I see the color green right here!
In Spanish green is verde!
Veo el color verde aqui,
verde aqui, verde aqui.
Veo el color verde aqui,
En inglés verde es green.
I see the color yellow right here,
yellow right here, yellow right here!
I see the color yellow right here!
In Spanish yellow is amarillo!
Veo el color amarillo aqui,
amarillo aqui, amarillo aqui.
Veo el color amarillo aqui,
En inglés amarillo es yellow.
I see the color white right here,
white right here, white right here!
I see the color white right here!
In Spanish white is blanco!
Veo el color blanco aqui,
blanco aqui, blanco aqui.
Veo el color blanco aqui,
En inglés blanco es white.
Preparation for the Activity: Road Trip Rainbow
This activity is great on your own family road trips then also transferred into the classroom, living room and preschool setting. Start by playing the song (or singing it without a CD thanks to the lyrics provided here and the melody also mentioned) and giving each child a turn holding any visual aid you might have to go along with the colors mentioned in our color song (if possible, depending upon the number of people in the car or the group).
Cute animal cut outs in all seven colors (plus more) are available with both English and Spanish color words via teaching stores such as Lakeshore Learning or catalog companies such as Carson Dellosa. We suggest laminating them with the color words hooked onto the animal picture – English always on the left, Spanish always on the right (or vice versa). Children need the repetition and the routine of the languages being in the same spot on each color animal.You can also find at The Dollar Store or Dollar Tree adorable fuzzy children’s hats in various colors, leis in lots of colors, bouncy balls in various colors or simply make your own hands on color aids out of construction paper!
Introduction of the concept of a rainbow: Depending on the ages of your children there are lots of resources available to introduce and explain what makes a rainbow. For most ofour Educator’s Club members the following resource is one of the best I have ever found and used. Make a huge rainbow out of fabric that you fold over, hot glue it and stuff it with cotton.
• There are many cute fabrics with rainbow prints that you could use for bulletin board backgrounds. Fabric doesn’t fade like paper so it’s great all year round!
• Use streamers to make a fun, flowing rainbow on your ceiling or walls.
• Use rainbow clip art on your classroom papers for the duration of your rainbow unit.
• Add a rainbow screen saver to your computer.
• Print out actual rainbow photos off the Internet to post around your room. Use Google for rainbow photos – there a so many beautiful ones.
• Hang prisms from your windows/lights to create rainbows around your room.
• Post words to rainbow poems/songs/finger plays on your walls.
• Use Skittles in a jar for your discipline/behavior management during the rainbow unit.
Happy Educating! ¡Sea feliz educando!
Boca Beth
P.S. ( E-mail me for the free coloring sheet!)
