- articles of red clothing
- darker
- darkest
- lighter
- lightest
- 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.
PreK Learning Guidelines:
English Language Arts/Language 2: Participate actively in discussions, listen to the ideas of others, and ask and answer relevant questions.
Talk Together: Red Clothes
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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); Objects can be classified by color
ELA Focus Skills: Follow Directions, Sort Colors, Speaking and Listening, Vocabulary
Educator Prep: Put the articles of red clothing in a pile. Allow children who did not wear/bring in an article of clothing to choose one before the activity begins.
- Ask children to describe the red clothing items they wore to school or saw at home.
- Allow children who do not have an article to choose one from the pile and describe it to the group.
Initiate a discussion about the different shades of red clothing. For example say,
- James wore a red shirt, and Emma wore red socks! Are they the same shade of red?
- Which item is a darker shade of red? A lighter shade?
Have children order the clothes from darkest red to lightest red.
If children disagree about the shades of red, have them make connections to the video Between the Lions “It’s Red! It’s Green!” and talk more about solving disagreements.