- color-mixing chart (from Day 2)
- colors
- mix
- stir
MA Standards:
Speaking and Listening/SL.PK.MA.1a: Observe and use appropriate ways of interacting in a group (e.g., taking turns in talking, listening to peers, waiting to speak until another person is finished talking, asking questions and waiting for an answer, gaining the floor in appropriate ways).
Head Start Outcomes:
Social Emotional Development/Self-Regulation: Follows simple rules, routines, and directions.
Language Development/Receptive Language: Attends to language during conversations, songs, stories, or other learning experiences.
PreK Learning Guidelines:
English Language Arts/Language 1: Observe and use appropriate ways of interacting in a group (taking turns in talking; listening to peers; waiting until someone is finished; asking questions and waiting for an answer; gaining the floor in appropriate ways).
English Language Arts/Reading and Literature 12: Listen to, recite, sing, and dramatize a variety of age-appropriate literature.
Sing Together: “Mice Mix Colors” #1
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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: Follow Directions, Speaking and Listening, Vocabulary
Educator Prep: Write the words to the song on chart paper. Use colored markers to write the color words. Explain that red is written in the color red and so on.
Tell children you are going to teach them a song about mice mixing colors, just like in the book Mouse Paint.
Display and review the color-mixing chart from Day 2.
- As you sing the color words in “Mice Mix Colors,” point to the corresponding colors on the chart.
- Then invite children to sing along with you and act out mixing the colors by stirring and dancing the colors like the mice. Guide them by pointing to the color circles on the chart.
Mice Mix Colors
(sung to the tune of “The Wheels on the Bus”)
Three little mice mix red and yellow,
Red and yellow,
Red and yellow.
Three little mice mix red and yellow;
Red and yellow make orange.
Three little mice mix yellow and blue,
Yellow and blue,
Yellow and blue.
Three little mice mixed yellow and blue;
Yellow and blue make green.
Three little mice mix blue and red,
Blue and red,
Blue and red. Three little mice mixed blue and red;
Blue and red make purple.