- block (green)
- green objects (various)
- dark
- darker
- darkest
- green
- light
- 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.
Language/L.PK.MA.5.a: Demonstrate understanding of concepts by sorting common objects into categories (e.g., sort objects by color, shape, or texture).
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.
Talk Together: Color Detective (green)
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STEM Key Concepts: There are many different colors
ELA Focus Skills: Color Recognition, Listening and Speaking, Vocabulary
Educator Prep: Place green objects around the room where they are visible to children.
Discuss blue objects children found at home or on their way home yesterday. If they brought in an object, ask them to describe it using color vocabulary. If children did not bring in objects, display a pile of objects and have children choose one to describe. Invite children to compare the blue objects and identify which objects are light and which are dark blue.
Then hold up a green building block and ask children to identify the color. Say, Let’s look around the room for more green objects. Do you see anything that is the same color? Have children walk around the room and find something that is green and bring it to the circle. Ask, Can you describe the color of your object?
Discuss the different green objects children found in the room. For example, say,
- Josh, hold your pencil next to Julie’s ball. Is it the same shade of green as the ball Julie found? How is it different?
- Now, Amit, hold your cube next to the pencil and the ball. Can you describe the color of your cube?
Encourage children to use the terms lighter, lightest, and darker, darkest as they discuss the shades of the color green.