This activity teaches children colors using a colors spinner and laminated cards with colored circles. The child spins the spinner and finds the matching colored circle. It helps children develop color recognition and matching skills. The document provides details on the learning objectives, materials needed, procedure, assessments, and tips for teaching the activity to 3-5 year olds.

1. Learning task: children to choose their clothes,
food and toys.
Colors Spinner
Student learning outcomes:
Description:
Creative activity:
Colors are very important for children.
The child will move the hand of the Differences between colors.
clock and the hand will stop on one
color. The child will choose a circle
Prerequisite concepts, skills, &
that has the same color of the circle values:
third which the hand is located .For * understand how to use the hand of the
example, if the clock hand is pointing clock.
at the red third of the clock, the child
should find a red circle and match it *matching: being able to match between
with the red circle in the laminated two objects that share a cretin feature.
card.
Learning theory &Instructional
Age group: Strategies:
3- 5 years. • This activity is related to cognitive
approach. Children have different
Subject area: experience such as seeing and
listening.
Science.
• This activity is a self correction
Subject standards: activity.
Exploration and experimentation. • This activity helps children select
their own personal items
Subject topic: according to the colors.
Colors. Student Characteristics
Background information: Accommodated:
• Accommodating linguistic and
- Why we teach children the
mathematical intelligence was
colors?
important in the design of this
- The colors are very useful for activity as student enjoy moves
the hand of the clock color and
children to be able to match,
naming the name of the color.
compare, classify, and
differentiate between different • This activity covers the whole
items around them. It also, child development (physical,
promotes their sense of art. For language, and emotional
example, they use the green development).
color to represent a tree.
Knowledge of colors helps

2. Introduction of the Learning Use only two colors instead of three.
Task: Extenuation:
• Show the child the place of the *Add secondary colors (Orange, purple,
activity in the shelf. and green) with primary colors.
• Tell the child the name of the * use different shapes (square, rectangle
activity. and triangle beside circle.
• Ask the child to carry the activity
Enrichment Activities:
to the table.
• Students could be introduced to
• Ask the child to remove the items
the concept of primary colors, on
from the tray.
the cards, under the circle.
• Show the child how to move the
hand of the color clock. Assessment Techniques:
• According to the hand lactation, Informal assessment:
ask the child to match between Observe the child during the activities
two circles that have same color. time.
• Ask the child to name the color of Formal assessment:
the circle.
Use the assessment sheet to evaluate the
• The teacher moves the hand of child progress.
the clock and asks the child to
name the color of the third that the Evaluation Rubric:
hand is pointing at.
- Doesn’t match colors.
• Remember to keep the sand timer
for the child while doing the - Matches all colors recognizes
activity. up to 75% colors (receptive
vocabulary). Identifies up to
• When he finishes, ask the child to
return the activity back. 50% colors (expressive
vocabulary).
Checklist of Tray Items:
- Matches and identifies
- Tray (expressive vocabulary ) all
colors.
- Plastic bag.
- Describe 2 or more variations
- Circle colors
in color names(light, dark, off
- Laminated card. white colors); grades colors
from lightest to darkest.
- Color clock.
Simplification Activity

3. • A paper that contains the
different colors.
Vocabulary:
Red, Yellow and Blue.
Comments, Hints, &
Suggestions:
• A plastic bag.
• Use a glue stick to anchor the
colors circles on a card before
laminating the two sides.
• Use sand timer to manage the
time for children.
• A small tray.
• Use the same shape for all the
colors.
Key words:
Circles, Colors Spinner, laminated
cards.
• Scissor
Materials needed:
• Colors Spinner.
• Paper fasteners
• Laminated cards with colors
• A hole punch
• Glue

4. My Experience with this
activity:
Children enjoy doing this activity and
Procedure: they feel that they don’t need to know
the correct options because the activity
is a self correction.
1- Cut colors circles. Most children spend a lot of time with
this activity so, the teacher should put
2- Glue them on the thick sand timer to remind the child for the
cards. time.
3- Cut the Colors Spinner and
Because most of children like this
activity, I think the teacher could use it
glue it on the thick cards. as reinforcement.
4- Cut the arrow and glue it on
the thick cards.
5- Laminate all the circles, References :
Colors Spinner and arrow. Child Care Center in Sultan Qaboos
University.
6- Put the arrow on the middle
of the color clock.
7- Use a whole punch to make
a hole for putting paper
fasteners.
8- Collect all the circles and
put them on the tray.
9- Put the laminated card and
color clock on the tray.

5. Done by : Zainab Al- Hinai
Example of assessment sheet
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