- “Colors” chart (from Week 1)
- marker
- What Is a Scientist? (book)
- color
- mix
- shade
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.
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: Revisit Colors
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STEM Key Concepts: There are many different colors; A color can have many different shades (from very light to very dark); White paint mixed with a color of makes makes a lighter shade of the color; Mixing white paint with a color of paint makes a lighter shade of the same color; Mixing black paint with a color makes a darker shade of the same color; Objects can be classified by colors
ELA Focus Skills: Listening and Speaking, Vocabulary
Have children share what they observed and learned about color this week.
- Revisit the book What Is a Scientist? by Barbara Lehn and say, This week you were all working like scientists when you were exploring color and mixing different shades of color.
Do a picture walk as children discuss the skills they were using as they explored colors and shades of color. Encourage children to recall when they were asking questions, recording observations, looking and listening closely, and sharing information they observed while learning about and mixing colors.
Have children share a picture they made in order to record one of their color explorations. Ask them to use the drawing to review what they were exploring and what they observed.
- Add any new ideas to the "Colors" chart from Week 1.