Me gusta comer como un arcoiris

To continue to recycle the colors and return to food vocabulary, over the past few weeks we have read the following books and sung the following new song. As always, each week I incorporate at least one past song that the children love ("un elefante" and "tengo hambre").

We have read some really fun books the past few weeks. If you are adding any Spanish books to your collection, these are some must-haves:

We have read la oruga muy hambrienta before. This time we counted how many pieces of food the "oruga" eats each day and emphasized the colors of the food.


A sembrar sopa de verduras is wonderful. It is basic language but very rich, and the children love acting it out:




Our new song the past few weeks was about eating the colors of the rainbow:
Me gusta comer como un arcoiris (repeat 3 times)
Como todos los colores.
(I then say a color and a child's name, and he/she looks for a piece of food that includes that color.)

Comer (koh-mair) means "to eat," so when we say that word in the song, we pretend like we are eating. Arcoiris means "rainbow," and we do the actual ASL sign for that (view it here). Sometimes we will also do a thumbs-up for me gusta, which means "I like ___".

Some of the color words are long and very different from English, so to help with learning the colors, I have an action I now do for each color. Often when a child can't remember the word, if I do the action, the word will come to mind (this is especially true with anaranjado).

rojo (ROE-hoe= red): slap hands on legs twice, as you say each syllable
anaranjado (ah-nah-dan-HA-though=orange): 5 claps, one clap as you say each syllable
amarillo (ah-mah-DEE-yo=yellow): hands on hips, wiggle hips from side to side
azul (ah-SOOL=blue): ASL sign for blue
verde (VAIR-day= green) : move flat (horizontal) hands back and forth\
morado (moh-DAH-though= purple): make an ASL sign for "v" with both hands and touch fingertips together
blanco (BLAHN-koe= white): ASL sign for white