- "Colors" chart (from Week 1)
- recordings of previous color mixing activities (drawings, photos, paint mixing samples, etc.)
- color
- darker
- lighter
- mix
- paint
- 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: Our Colors
© Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Department of Early Education and Care (Jennifer Waddell photographer). All rights reserved.
STEM Key Concepts: There are many different colors; A color can have many different shades (from very light to very dark); Two or more colors can be combined to make a new color
ELA Focus Skills: Speaking and Listening, Vocabulary
Review and discuss children's previous paint-mixing explorations.
Talk about primary colors: blue, red, and yellow. Invite children to point to those colors in their work. Ask,
- What new colors did you make by mixing two of those colors together?
- How did you make lighter shades of those colors? Darker?
Encourage children to share what they have learned about mixing colors and to use key terms such as mix, color, paint, shade, compare, lighter, and darker in their descriptions.
Record new ideas on the "Colors" chart.