- color mixing chart (from Day 2)
- color
- mix
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.
Mathematics/Number Sense 1: Listen to and say the names of numbers in meaningful contexts.
Talk Together: “Three Little Mice”
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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: Fine Motor Skills, Speaking and Listening, Vocabulary
Have children initiate a discussion about colors they have seen and mixed throughout the week.
Then tell children they are going to recite the “Three Little Mice” finger play with you again.
- Recite the finger play once and have a volunteer point to the color rectangles/squares on the color-mixing chart as you recite the color words.
- Have children join you in reciting and acting out the finger play.
Three Little Mice (finger play)
Three little mice (hold up three fingers)
One, two, three. (put up three fingers one at a time)
Dancing and twirling (swirl three fingers around)
As happy as can be.
One sees yellow, (left hand to brow with eyes searching)
One sees blue, (right hand to brow with eyes searching)
One sees red, (left hand to brow with eyes searching)
Now what shall they do? (shrug shoulders)
Mix some colors and go to bed! (fold hands together and tilt head on hands)