Anyway - it's color week in Kindergarten. In many classrooms as well as mine, we are doing a color dress-up for each day. * I might have used this as an excuse to go shopping for some fun color clothes that I just NEEDED to have!*
I'm using the KinderLit Rainbow Book of Colors as my guide for the order. What I love about this unit is it's literature/science based. The kiddos listen to a book on a specific color each day & then get to make art/do science all about that color. The books are very tactile so MY KIDS LOVE them, especially for back to school & practicing those fine motor skills {coloring, cutting, gluing, etc.}.
We kicked it off with a color sort - this anchor chart idea came from Abby's blog; however, I turned it into a anticipatory sort instead of adjective practice & used some fun crayon cut outs to make it stand out a bit. I read Cat's Colors & then the kids sorted the 64 Crayola crayons into 6 piles {red, orange, yellow, green, blue, & purple}. Then, I wrote the various crayon titles under each color:
We had just enough time after the sort to PAINT! We decorated the front of our Rainbow Book of Colors with a RAINBOW {of course}.
For writing we completed the RED page using that Big Red dog - Clifford as our text. Here are a few pics of the dogs they created using a 1/2 sheet of red construction paper & LOTS of creativity:
On a side note, KinderLit books are great at teaching the kiddos the art of collage & using shapes to make other shapes. We talked about how Clifford's body was an oval and his legs rectangles. I encourage the students to use ALL the white space but NOT to cover the words - so it can be read at home to practice color words.
I plan to color mix after reading Mouse Paint & do a Milk Experiment from Kristen. I am also going to do a disappearing science experiment, graph & write about favorite colors thanks to Cara's freebie...loving all the inspiration from you bloggin' peeps!!
Hope your weeks are as colorful as mine!
Miss Kristan King
