MA Standards:
Speaking and Listening/SL.PK.MA.1: Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners during daily routines and play.
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).
Language/L.PK.MA.1: Demonstrate use of oral language in informal everyday activities.
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.
PreK Learning Guidelines:
English Language Arts/Language 2: Participate actively in discussions, listen to the ideas of others, and ask and answer relevant questions.
Watch Together: “Finger Paints” #1 (BTL clip)
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STEM Key Concepts: There are many different colors; Two or more colors can be combined to make a new color
ELA Focus Skills: Active Viewing, Speaking and Listening, Vocabulary
Tell children that they are going to watch a video poem called Between the Lions “Finger Paints.” Ask children to share any experiences they have had using finger paints. View the video once without pausing.
View the picture a second time and ask children to notice the colors the narrator makes when she swooshes the paint all around.
After the video, ask questions such as,
- What color does the girl make when she swooshes red and yellow together? Blue and yellow?
- Did you make any of the same colors in your mixing explorations?
- Why do you think the author makes the picture go away when people asked about it? What do you do when someone ask you about a picture you created?
Take It Further: Allow children to paint with finger paints and mix colors like the narrator in the video. As you play the video one more time, pause so children can match colors to those on the video. At the end, encourage children to "swoosh" their pictures away.
