Product Description: Blueberries, black olives, brown bread, green grapes, orange carrots, violet eggplants, red bell peppers, yellow bananas, white rice: it's all here in mouth-watering full color! Hit two major vocabulary topics when you talk about food and colors with your class. Hang this bulletin board set to reinforce color vocabulary and healthy eating! Nine 8 x 11-inch glossy pieces, heavy cardstock, not laminated.
Cost: $19.95
Our county curriculum for German is based on Deutsch Aktuell 1. The way it was laid out, we were teaching colors to level 1 at the END of the school year. Can you imagine waiting four quarters and then, as the LAST unit, starting colors? I saw these in the Teacher's Discovery catalog and thought it would be a great reference for students throughout the year before we actually got to the unit.
I love them! The pictures are great and they add a bit of color (duh!) to the classroom. Since they don't come laminated, make sure you get that done before hanging them up! I've found the students like having them as a reference before we cover colors.
They're a little small (only the size of a regular piece of paper) - they're not necessarily easy to read on the opposite side of the classroom - but I like the size because it makes them less obtrusive and gives you more options in where to put them up.
My only complaint is that pink and grey are missing. I like having the posters, so I ended up making my own food-related posters for them (see above).
Practicality: 4.5/5
Great as a tool for students before they learn the vocab, and great as a quick reference for after (especially with spelling). Only took off some points because it's only really practical for level 1 - upper levels don't need to refer to them.
Accuracy: 4/5
Only taking off because they're missing colors I wish were included. Everything that's there is accurate (though students do sometimes complain that there's green in the white picture...).
Fun: 5/5
I love the pictures and color. Great classroom decoration!
Overall: 13.5 / 15 (90%)
I would *highly* recommend this product if you teach elementary or middle school, or if you teach lower levels of German in high school. Definitely worth it!
If you're looking for other color-related displays that might be a little cheaper, here are two others:
- Colors Skinny Poster (see left): Teacher's Discovery has a poster that shows all the colors (even pink and grey which are missing in the set above). Looks good, but my concern is that it might be too small. I like the look but didn't purchase it because I already own the item above. Cost of this poster would be $12.00
- Color Their World: This blog post at the Creative Language Class talks about how to make super easy (and cheap!) signs for colors by going to Home Depot or Loews and getting paint strips. Liked this idea and shared it with some of the other teachers at my school. Very creative!
- Frau Leonard
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