- “Colors” chart (from Week 1)
- objects (yellow)
- dark
- light
- shade
- yellow
MA Standards:
Speaking and Listening/SL.PK.MA.1: Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners during daily routines and play.
Language/L.PK.MA.1: Demonstrate use of oral language in informal everyday activities.
Language/L.PK.MA.6: Use words and phrases acquired through conversations, listening to books read aloud, activities, and play.
MA STE Draft Standards:
Physical Sciences: Matter and Its Interactions: Structure and Properties of Matter/PS1.A: Describe, compare, sort and classify objects based on observable physical characteristics, uses, and whether it is manufactured as part of their classroom play and investigations of the natural and human-made world.
Head Start Outcomes:
Language Development/Receptive Language: Attends to language during conversations, songs, stories, or other learning experiences.
Language Development/Expressive Language: Uses language to express ideas and needs.
Language Development/Expressive Language: Uses increasingly complex and varied vocabulary.
PreK Learning Guidelines:
English Language Arts/Language 2: Participate actively in discussions, listen to the ideas of others, and ask and answer relevant questions.
English Language Arts/Language 3: Communicate personal experiences or interests.
Talk Together: Yellow Things
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STEM Key Concepts: There are many different colors
ELA Focus Skills: Listening and Speaking, Vocabulary
Educator Prep: Place a pile of yellow objects in the center of the circle. Allow children who did not bring in an object from home to choose one of the objects from the pile.
Discuss the yellow objects children saw at home or on their way home.
Then have children who brought in an object share with the group. If a child forgot to look for yellow items, stress that it is okay, and have him or her choose a yellow object from the spare pile to talk about.
- Encourage children to use new color vocabulary or to create new words to describe the colors and shades of yellow. (I saw a dark yellow flower. I have a light orangey-yellow stuffed animal.) Help children describe their objects in full sentences.
- Add children's new ideas about the color yellow or shades of yellow to the “Colors” chart under a new subheading, “Yellow.”