Mixing the Colours of the Rainbow

A simple creative revision task: I gave the girls paint in the primary colours and a plain white piece of card, then told them to paint a picture of a rainbow. 🌈

Arabic colours: masculine/feminine

We've been familiar with the masculine versions of the colours for a while now, through songs on YouTube and using them in context in everyday conversations, but only just learnt the feminine equivalents.

To recap this vocabulary, I created a simple table for the girls to match the masculine and feminine versions of the colours to each other. There's the opportunity to practise scissor skills to cut out the words themselves or you can prepare this in advance for them. There's also opportunity to practise reading/familiarisation with the letters and vowel sounds, or you can simply read out the words to them a few at a time to find the matching pair.

Once the girls had stuck the words in the correct places (left column for feminine, right column for masculine!), we practised making statements to describe nouns as a colour using the words around the page to help, e.g. اَلْبَيْتُ الْأحْمَر ("the red house"). All the pictures on the left are feminine nouns in Arabic and the ones on the right are masculine nouns in Arabic. Of course, feel free to edit the file to nouns your own children are familiar with instead!

You can download the resources here.