- color
- dark
- shade
MA Standards:
Speaking and Listening/SL.PK.MA.2: Recall information for short periods of time and retell, act out, or represent information from a text read aloud, a recording, or a video (e.g., watch a video about birds and their habitats and make drawings or constructions of birds and their nests).
Head Start Outcomes:
Language Development/Receptive Language: Attends to language during conversations, songs, stories, or other learning experiences.
PreK Learning Guidelines:
English Language Arts/Language 4: Engage in play experiences that involve naming and sorting common words into various classifications using general and specific language.
Watch Together: “Spicy Hot Colors” #2 (BTL show)
STEM Key Concepts: There are many different colors; A color can have many different shades (from very light to very dark)
ELA Focus Skills: Color Recognition, Vocabulary, Active Viewing
Tell children they will be watching the video Between the Lions “Spicy Hot Colors” again.
Before You Watch
Set a viewing focus by asking children to think about all the different shades of colors they see on each screen.
As You Watch
Encourage children to interact with the video during viewing.
- Have children shout out the color as the narrator reads it.
- Pause and allow children to identify an image on the screen, for example, dark green shirt or dark purple piñata.
After You Watch
Have children describe their favorite image. Encourage them to talk about the colors in the image and the many shades of that color.
