World of Color Week 6

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 Letter To Amy by Ezra Jack Keats
Caps for Sale by Esphyr Slobodkina
Small Groups
- Language – We will be creating a book based on our paper-fading experiment.  We will be making observations about our paper we put in the sun for 1 week and 3 weeks.  We will record our observations through dictating to teachers.
-Math–We will be creating color patterns in a "frame"
- Games- Alphabet Go Fish
Choice: -
- Easel –Mixing primary colors
-Sensory table-using spray bottles with colored water to spray on paper
- Dramatic Play – Post Office and buying stamps and envelopes with money
-Art Table-color collages
-Writing Center – Writing letters to friends
-Library- Books about colors
-Fine Motor- play dough
- Blocks –Colored building blocks

Let’s Talk About It (oral language development)
-Observing and discussing colors in signs we see (example: stop sign, school crossing, traffic lights...)
-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