So this week several of our Kindergarten classes are celebrating colors with a week long unit!! Yesterday was Red day which was perfect as we were also celebrating Johnny Appleseed's birthday! We learned to spell red by singing Heidisongs color words from her Sing & Spell DVD.
We also read the story Mary Wore Her Red Dress and came up with our sentences. Unfortunately we ran out of time to do our art project - an apple mobile:( Oh well - we made up for it today with Orange day!
We began by reading Brown Bear, Brown Bear. We used some fun activities found in Julie Lee's Brown Bear Unit; Kreative in Kinder's Colors unit; and Made for 1st Grades's Color Day Fun.
I was so lucky that my colleague had a copy of Cat's Colors - what a fun story that I will definatley need to add to my collection. Then students used paper plates colored orange for the cat head, added triangle ears, and colored black details for their own orange cat. On the back they added their own sentence telling the reader about something orange (I think everyone chose the cat:) ).
For some fun science we asked what might happen if we mixed red and yellow together. Each child was given a snack size zip lock bag. I then gave each a dollop of shaving cream, and added yellow and red food coloring. The kids LOVED mixing it to find ORANGE!! This was a great lesson to begin talking about the scientific process and easy peasy as we were once again running out of time - ahhh!
Sorry I don't have pictures but I left my camera at school:( I'll try to add some later. Tomorrow is Yellow day and I haven't yet figured out a good story other than maybe Curious George. I have been given a few titles but I don't have those books and couldn't find them at our library either:(
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