Colors, Colors!

We are focused on EVERYTHING colors around here right now! Color songs, science, math, playtime etc. 

Scat the Magic Cat-He knows how to change his colors which is SO cool!

Color patterning

Rainbow fish-Size sorting

Rainbow song

Red day-Stamping

Color Dishes-we washed them with our friends for bonding time

Giant color sorting mat

Mouse in a house-Color game

Who's missing? Fun get to know you game.  We used a green sheet for "green day"

Singing Rainbow Song with our friends

Color button sorting game

Color Ice-cream cones game

Getting to know you graph- We did eye colors and hair type

Color science using milk, dawn dish soap, and food coloring.  This experiment is so MAGICAL!  Try it! You just add a few drops food coloring to milk, then drip some dawn into it using a Q-tip. 

The funnest sensory activity EVER!!! Color mixing! Pure entertainment with LOTS of learning! 

Primary color mixing science

Look how mesmerized they are!! I got lots of ooohs and ahhhs! 

Gummy bear color/counting song and game

"Blue Day" scarf dance to "I'm Blue!"  This was popular and has been requested several times since!!

Color pom-pom play and exploration.  Scoops, cups, and spoons included for extra development and learning. 

P is for St Patrick's

We made these beautiful rainbows using a rainbow template, fruit loops, cotton balls, crayons, glitter and glue.  These are wonderful for honing in on those fine motor skills as well as working on sorting and patterning skills, and it's a wonderful sensory experience for sound (think digging in the fruit loop bowl) smell, sight, touch and taste (we all know they can't resist tasting a few). 

P is for Pizza P's

Today we sorted pizza's into the right pizza box by whether it was a capital or lowercase 'P'.  

Counting 'O's

 We took some time to count (and eat a few) O's.  The kids are really getting to be pro's at counting and practicing one to one correspondence!

J is for Junk Sorting

I'm a teacher, so believe me when I say I have a lot of "Junk"......at least to you it may seem like junk.  To me it is treasures, many, many treasures!.......And it must be sorted!!!   Today we used some of my junky collection of bingo markers, disks, and bracelets. We first sorted them by size and then we sorted them into sections of markers and bracelets which was a win-win because when we were all done the kids had them all ready for me to put away!  What great learning all around! 

D is for December

We had fun making patterns, counting and sorting with Christmas Erasers.  This was one of the patterns we made together. 

October Patterning

I have all kinds of fun Halloween trinkets to "play" math with!  We used them for counting, graphing, sorting, and patterning which are all important mathematical concepts.  

Shape Graphing

The kids brought items from home to sort and graph by shape.  It is always great to combine home and school learning as well as use everyday objects for better retention.  

Group Activities

Here are a couple of the games we played together during our color unit.  The first one is a counting game and the second is a sorting and sight word game. 

Purple Day

We have a bunch of "grape" kids in our class!  They thought the pictures were pretty funny too!  Below we took turns reading and sorting our newest sight words. 

Purple Craft

Sight Word Sorting

More Color Games

We did color word clip cards to practice learning sight words, we counted colorful buttons, and as a class we sorted different colored objects onto the appropriate color word card using our giant sorting mat. 

Sight word clip cards

Button Sorting/Counting

Color Word Sorting

Learning Games

Below is a number matching game that is especially fun because you get to "fish" the matches out of the water.  We also used our counting grid to count "seashells" as part of our all about my summer theme-great for one to one correspondence!  The last picture is a game called knock-knock-who am I?  Not only is it a great way to learn names and get to know our new friends, but it is great for audio discrimination and listening skills!