- color circles (set for each child; black, blue, green, orange, purple, red, white, yellow)
- Spicy Hot Colors (book)
- color
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/Reading and Literature 15: Listen to, recognize, and use a broad vocabulary of sensory words.
Watch Together: “Spicy Hot Colors” #4 (BTL show)
STEM Key Concepts: There are many different colors
ELA Focus Skills: Active Listening and Viewing, Vocabulary
Before You Watch
Display Spicy Hot Colors by Sherry Shahan. Give children color circles that match the colors in the video: red, blue, yellow, green, orange, purple, black, and white.
- Say a color word and hold up a corresponding color circle.
- The ask children to raise their circle of that color and repeat the color word aloud. Continue for all colors to help children recall color words and corresponding colors.
As You Watch
Ask children to raise a color circle each time they hear that color word mentioned in the video.
- You may want to pause after each color section to allow time for all children to recognize the color and find the corresponding color circle.
- Show the next page in the story and encourage children to get the next color circle ready before you play the video.
Adaptation: For groups with young children who have difficulty remembering to raise a particular color circle, ask them to clap when they hear any color word mentioned in the video.
Adaptation: For groups with children not recognizing their colors, you may want to give each child one or two color circles and have them focus only on their colors.
Take It Further: You may want to play the video a second time without pausing. For children having difficulty finding the corresponding color circles, have them line their circles up in the order they will appear on the screen so they won't have to search for the colors. For children comfortable with recognizing colors, have them mix their colors up and find them as the video plays.
