Colors Are Everywhere

Theme: Colors Are Everywhere (Letter and Number review)

Date	Music & Movement	Small Group Activity	Circle/Activity/Religion	Books in Our Library Elmer the Elephant Go Away Big Green Monster Mouse Paint The Art of Colors Brown Bear, Brown Bear Planting a Rainbow A Color of His Own Little Blue, Little Yellow Is It Blue? Is It Yellow? Mary Wore Her Red Dress Harold and the Purple Crayon White Rabbit’s Color Books
Mon.	Sing and dance to Hap Palmer’s songs about color.	Let’s paint with just primary colors (red, blue and yellow). What colors can you make?	Book: White Rabbit’s Color Book Activity: Play color bingo Religion: Read and discuss the Seed story ‘Our Family Recycles and Reuses’
Tue	Sing and dance to Hap Palmer songs about color.	Let’s paint with just primary colors (red, blue and yellow). What colors can you make?	Book: Mouse Paint Activity: Color word match-up (a color word spelling game) Religion: Read and discuss the Seed story ‘Our Family Recycles and Reuses’
Wed.	Bean Bag Color Toss – (children will pick a card with a color on then toss their bean bag onto that color paper)	Create a color & shape college using scissors, construction paper in a variety of colors and glue	Book: The Art of Colors Activity: Color word match-up Religion: Review our Earth Day Songs. Talk about how we show love and care for others	Please Reinforce at Home: · Read & count everyday · Play ‘Color I Spy’. · Clap out words and names. · Measure everything around the house. · Continue with helping your child to memorize their address and phone number.
Thur.	Play Twister and sing songs with a “color” theme	AM: Black & White are colors too – Painting with black and white acrylic paints using a paint palette	Book: Brown Bear, Brown Bear Activity: Children to retell Story with flannel story box Religion: Gospel storytelling – Jesus says, “Love one another.”
Fri.	Play Twister and sing songs with a “color” theme	Black & White are colors too – Painting with black and white acrylic paints using a paint palette	Book: Elmer The Elephant and Friends Activity: Sharing – Religion: Gospel storytelling – Jesus says, “Love one another.”

Theme: Colors Are Everywhere (Letter & Number Review)

Work Jobs · Pegs and peg Boards · Pattern Blocks · Unifix blocks · Shape sew cards · Teddy Bear counters · Foam puzzles · File folder games · Animal wooden puzzles	Free Art – see dramatic play – the art center and the dramatic play area will be merged together to create an “ART Studio”.	Blocks & Accessories · Small colored wooden blocks. · Rainbow window blocks · Auto garage · Trucks, tractors, buses and train · Unit blocks · Arches/Rainbow blocks	Dramatic Play Art Studio: easel, paints, oil pastels, paper, colored pencils, dot paints, and collage materials; mural paper on the wall for painting or drawing on, art display area.
Writing Center: Letter A--Y words to copy, lined paper, plan paper, color words, letter worksheets Sensory Tables- Shave cream and water colors Large blocks of ice, eye droppers, liquid watercolors		Gospel Theme: Jesus Commands us to love one another Religious Objective: The children will recognize that loving one another goes beyond our families. The children will continue to recognize recycling is a way to show love for our planet and its people. Prayer: Dear Jesus, we will share our time together by following your rule to love each. We will be thoughtful and respectful. We will also remember to take good care of the world around us. Prayer Table: family finger puppets and puppets
Overall Curriculum Objective: Involve children in a variety of activities, projects, and games that will increase their knowledge of colors and shapes. Practice estimating measurements, how long, how tall, how much - “I’m as tall as…” or “the lizard is 10 cubes long.” Provide opportunities for the children to clap multi/syllabic words. (clap out names, familiar words) Reinforce following multi-step directions.
Each of the following will be introduced in class this month through books, activities and music Artist: Stephanie Choo Music: Chinese Plant: Cherry Blossoms Act of Grace: Praying to the Angels		Continue Poem: The Earth I’m glad the sky is painted blue, And the earth is painted green. With such a lot of nice fresh air All sandwiched in between

Color Song & Finger Plays

Colors

(Sung to: Head, Shoulder, Knees, and Toes)

Red, yellow, green and blue green and blue
Red, yellow, green and blue green and blue
Purple, orange, brown and black
Red, yellow, green and blue green and blue

The Color I See

Red, red is the color I see. If you are wearing red then show it to me. Stand up, turn around. Show me your red then sit back down.

Yellow, Yellow is the color I see. If you are wearing Yellow then show it to me. Stand up, turn around. Show me your yellow then sit back down.

Go through as many colors as you wish

I Can Sing A Rainbow

Red and yellow and pink and green;
Purple and orange and blue.

I can sing a rainbow, sing a rainbow, sing a rainbow too.

Listen with your eyes, listen with your eyes, and sing everything you see.

You can sing a rainbow, sing a rainbow, sing along with me.

Red and yellow and pink and green; purple and orange and blue.

Now, we can sing a rainbow, sing a rainbow, sing a rainbow too.

Colors up in the Rainbow

Red and orange, green and blue, shiny yellow, purple too.
All the colors that we know, live up in the rainbow.
Red and orange, green and blue, shiny yellow, purple too.

Fred Red

Fred Red bumped his head, Had to be fed in bed.
Mellow Yellow is a funny fellow, He only eats yellow Jello.
Suesy Blue got the flu, Boo Hoo Hoo, Boo Hoo Hoo
Jean Green is so mean, She's the meanest I've ever seen.
Burple Purple is a nerple, Ollie Orange ate an orange.
John Brown went to town, He is such a silly clown.
Jack Black sat in the back, Willie White is always right!

Colors of the Rainbow

Red, and Yellow and Pink and Green, Purple and Orange and Blue
I can sing a rainbow.. . I Sing a rainbow... and so can you.

Red, and Yellow and Pink and Green, Purple and Orange and Blue
I Can Dance A Rainbow... I Can Dance A Rainbow... and so can you

Red is the Color of Food

Red is the color for an apple to eat.
Red is the color for cherries, too.
Red is the color for strawberries,
I like red food don't you?

Paint With Colors

I know my colors for painting fun, green like the grass and the yellow sun.
an orange pumpkin and white-white snow, a red rose and a black crow,
blue like a mailbox, brown like an ape, a pink pig and some purple grapes!

I can spell Red

R. . .E . .D, red, R . . .E. . .D, red.
I can spell red. I can spell red.
Fire trucks are red. Stop signs are red too.
R. . .E . .D, red, R . . .E. . .D, red.

Orange as a carrot

ORANGE as a carrot,
YELLOW as a pear,
PURPLE as a plum,
BROWN as a bear,
GREEN as the grass,
BLUE as the sky,
BLACK as a cat
RED as cherry pie

Beautiful Rainbow Came

One day the sun was shining bright (hold up right hand like blocking sunlight)
But some clouds came along and it became black as night
(Hold up left hand for the clouds)
Then the rain began to sprinkle onto the ground
(wiggle fingers for the rain coming down)
And soon it was raining all over the town.
But when the clouds had passed on by (move both hands to one side)
A big beautiful rainbow stretched across the sky
(make a rainbow arc with your hands)

When I See

When I See Red I put my hand on my head
When I see Blue I touch my shoe
When I see green I wash my face real clean
When I see yellow I wave to the fellows
When Orange is found I put my hand on the ground
When I see pink I think, I think, I think

Red is an Apple

Red is an apple
Yellow is the sun
Blue is the sky
And purple is a plum

Orange is an orange
Green is a tree
Black as the sky
I know my colors as you can see!

The Ocean & Tide Pools

Wow, it has been a long time. I had a rough 2009, my mother was ill and passed away in May. It seems I am getting back on track.

So here goes....

The Ocean and Letter O

Overall Curriculum Objective:
Introduce the letter N through stories, songs and activities.
Provide activities that require matching objects & creating pairs; classify b y group of mixed size and color.
Encourage students to care for their own bodies and dress & fasten their own clothing.
Introduce tide pools & oecan through songs, stories, games and art activities

Some books in our library
A House For A Hermit Crab
Star fish
Octopus
Swimmy
On The Beach
How To Hide a Octopus
Swimmy
Exploring The Seashore
The Rainbow Fish
The Bay
Shellfish Aren’t Fish
Over In The Ocean
Sharks

Monday & Tuesday:
Music: Sing about sharks and move like them too
Small Group: Create a letter 0 booklet with an O octopus and illustrate words that begin with O
Book: Olive Octopus
Activity: What begins with O songs - Write a class “Beach Story”

Wednesday:
Music: Make up our own lyrics to “1 little, 2 Little, 3 little fish, dolphin, sharks,….”
Small Group: Create a letter 0 booklet with an O octopus and illustrate words that begin with O
Book: Olive Octopus
Activity: What begins with O songs -Write a class “Beach Story”

Thursday:
Music: Make up our own lyrics to “1 little, 2 Little, 3 little fish, dolphin, sharks, ….”
Small Group: Create an Ocean collage
Book: Over In The Ocean
Activity: Sharing Day –Create fishy prints

Friday:
Music: “Angle Fish” dancing with scarves
Small Group: Sponge paint a tide pool scene
Book: Rainbow Fish
Activity: Sharing Day –Create fishy Prints

Work Jobs:
Cubes
Snape cubes
Connects
Snap Fish
Magnetos
Wooden puzzles
Floor puzzle –
Animal sequencing

Free Art:
Easel painting
Collage materials for creating beach scenes & tide pools
Play dough with tools
Watercolors
Markers, crayons, pencils, oil pastels

Block & Accessories:
Arks & pairs of animals
Boats
Fish, star fish, crabs
Sea shells & rocks
Curved blocks
Rainbow blocks
Legos

Dramatic Play: The Beach House: Sea Creatures, fishing poles, beach chair, kitchen furniture, food.

Writing Center: Letter O worksheets, Simple Dot-To-Dot, paper, pencils, space stencils, Words to copy pertaining to tide pools and the beach.

Water table- Water with sponges, sprinkler cans, “barge” (meat trays) and objects to put on the ‘barge’.

Sand table- Sand with small pails, shovels and shells

The Beach Story:
By:________________________

I went to the beach today,

The sun was as hot as _______________.

The sky was as blue as ______________.

The ocean as cold as ________________.

I swam in the water just like a ________.

I played in the sand and built a ____________.

While I was walking around, I found _______________.

I love to run on the beach like a _________________.

I had fun at the beach.


Songs & Finger Plays


Water Chant

Water, water everywhere
On my face and on my hair.
On my fingers, on my toes.
Water, water on my nose.

By Jean Warren

I’m A Little Fishy (sung to I’m a Little Teapot)

I’m a little fishy, I can swim.
Here is my tail and here is my fin.
When I want to have fun with my friends,
I wiggle my tail and dive right-in.

We’re Little Orange Crabs (sung to “The Farm In The Dell”)

We’re Little orange crabs,
Who live down by the sea.
And wherever we do go,
We’re quick as quick can be.

We’re little orange crabs,
Who like to run and hide.
And when you see us walking by,
It’s always side-to-side.

The Jelly Fish (My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean)

The jelly fish lives in the ocean,
The jelly fish lives in the sea.
The jelly fish lives in the ocean,
Oh, jelly fish swim by me.
Swim, Swim, swim, swim,
Oh, jelly fisy swim by me, by me.
Swim, swim, swim, swim,
Oh, jelly fish swim by me.

Let’s Take Care of Every One (Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star)

Seaweed, sea stars, giant whales,
Coral, crabs and fish with tails.
They live in the ocean blue,
And make a web of life, it’s true.
Let’s take care of every one,
For our job is never done.