World of Color Week 6

Theme – This is our last week of our color unit. 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.

*Please note that we will not have school on Friday

*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.

Favorite Color Day
Please have your child wear their favorite color on Thursday.

Stories –
A Whistle for Willie by Ezra Jack Keats
Rabbits and Raindrops
Noisy Nora

Small Groups
-Language – We will create positional books with mice from Mouse Paint
-Math–We will be creating color patterns in a "frame"
-Math – We will make an Ice Cream book.
-Motor – We are playing hopscotch this week.
-Fine Motor – We are drawing self portraits.

Choice: -
-Easel –File Folder Games
-Sensory table-Cuttings and ripping various weights of paper and materials
-Dramatic Play – Kitchen
-Art Table-color collages
-Math – Umbrella number match
-Writing Center – Creating individual books
-Library- Books about colors
-Fine Motor- play dough
-Blocks –Colored building blocks
-Music and Movement – Dancing on the rug

Let’s Talk About It (oral language development)
-What is your favorite color? What color do more friends like? What color do less friends like?

Songs, Word Plays and Letters
1)Head Shoulders Knees and Toes
2) Down By the Bay
3) Five Green and Speckled Frogs
4) Green grass
5) What are you wearing?
6) Can you think of words that rhyme with__?
7) Rhyming words for books (thorn, horn; stamp, ramp)
8) Hands