World of Color - Week 4

Theme – This week we will continue our Unit 4 of the Owl, World of Color. During this unit students will interact with colors explore topics such as color mixing, stains, fading, camouflage, and color patterns. Students will learn that color can be found in nature, that color can carry information, that paints and dyes are used to color things, colors can be mixed to make new colors and that sun and washing can make colors fade.

*Also, we are planning ahead for our upcoming unit. If you have any “beautiful junk”, we would appreciate it. Here’s what we need: shiny gift wrap, metal jars, plastic screw top container lids(peanut butter, coffee jars, etc), small metal cans, transparent and opaque jars or containers. 

Green is the color of the week.
Please have your child wear Green on Thursday.

Stories –
Dear Juno by Soyung Pak
The Lion and the Little Red Bird by Elisa Kleven
Mouse Paint by Ellen Walsh 

Small Groups 
-Science –Color Mixing on Paper Towels.We will be observing how colors mix.
-Motor - Students will work on fine motor tasks such as writing their names, and they will engage in gross motor tasks while practicing some vocabulary from the stories. 
-Language- Naming and Labeling Paint Colors-We will be matching color words and colored materials. We will be focusing on beginning sounds of each letter as we sort.

Choice: - 
- Easel – Fruit and vegetable paintings
-Sensory table-sorting colored objects. We will be using fine motor tweezers and putting items into colored trays. 
- Dramatic Play – Ice Cream Shop. 
-Art Table- mixing primary colors for a class book 
-Language- creating green collage headbands and writing the word green on them
- Library-Books about colors 
- Blocks –Colored building blocks

Music: 
1) Clap Your Hands 
2) Bingo 
3) Five Green and Speckled Frogs 
4) Green grass 
5) Down By the Bay 
6) Bananas
7) Five Little Monkeys

Poems: Hands on Shoulders, Stand Up