Monday, March 21, 2011

World of Color - March 21-25






***We will celebrate a color a week during this unit! This week is Blue week! Please help your child wear the color of the week to school especially on Thursday, Blue Day!***
This week will conclude our World of Color unit!
Books this week:
We will have a reading from each our favorite books from this unit!
Max's Dragon Shirt, By Rosemary Wells
Dogs Colorful Day, By Emily Dodd
The Lion and the Little Red Bird, By Elisa Kleven
Mouse Paint, By Ellen Stoll Walsh
Small Groups:
Fine motor and science - Students will revisit the paper fading experiment. They will see how their paper strips faded in the sunlight and how the papers out of the sun remained non-faded. They will cut strips and sort them into faded and non-faded categories.
Language and Literacy - Students will talk about the book Mouse Paint and discuss their favorite colored mouse and the color paint that he made. They will create their own Mouse Paint Picture.
Science - Students will use primary colored water to create new water colors. They will use squirt bottles and tubes to see the colors blend.
Art - Students will use miscellaneous blue materials to decorate blue crowns for blue day!
Choice Time:
-Sensory Table- Seashells and sand
-Easel - Students will use Wiki sticks to trace the outlines of letters from the alphabet.
-Creation table- Students will place tangram blocks together to create whole pictures.
**Art table - This week we will learn about the letter "R". Students will glue ribbon pieces to the letter "R." We will save the picture to create an alphabet book.** Please look around your house with your child to find something that starts with the letter "R." Send it in this week for show and tell!
-Rug - students will use colored Clicks and star builders to make their own creations
- Dramatic Play - Students pretend to work at an ice cream stand. They will play the roles of Ice Cream Scooper, the Customer and the Cashier.
- Yellow table - Color matching puzzles
Songs, Word Play, and Letters
Alphabet Action
Color Train
Someones wearing a ___ shirt
The color I see

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