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Color Break-Up

Help children break up colors using a simple form of chromatography to show what colors were combined to make another color.

Color Hunt

Divide children into two teams and have each team look for items of a specific color.

Color “I Spy”

Have children listen to and guess the color of an object based on clues.

Color Match

Have children copy patterns of colored beads, and then create their own patterns.

Color Mixing

Have children continue to explore making new colors with colored plastic wrap and finger paints.

Colored Pencil Night Drawings

Show children the illustration of the raccoon and her babies in Night in the Country. Encourage children to draw a night scene using colored pencils.

Colored Water Drop Design

Have children create water drop designs by letting colored water drops flow down a ramp.

Community Helpers

Discuss community helpers and vehicles they use to do their job. Focus on people who take care of parks and community gardens. Have children build a neighborhood park or community garden with roads for vehicles used to maintain the area.

Compare Story Murals

Create a mural about The Three Little Javelinas. Display the mural near the one you made last week to compare the settings.

Comparing Weight

Demonstrate how to use the balance or homemade scale. Let children compare objects and guess which one is heavier.

Connecting Cube Train Races

Have children build connecting-cube trains to send down ramps, and use nonstandard measuring tools to mark how far the trains travel.

Construction Site

Have children work in small groups to pretend that they are builders at a construction site. Remind them the importance of safety as they work together to build a structure. 

Construction Zone

Let children role-play construction workers remodeling the Pretend and Play Center.

Count the Veggies

Have children write a shopping list. Have them count the number of objects they “buy” at the grocery store in the Block Center.

Countdown to Zero

Display the number chart that includes the number zero.  Using your fingers and objects, explain what zero represents in relation to other numbers like one and two.

Counting Sounds

Have children use different materials to make sounds and then count the number of different sounds.

Dance Studio

Have children to pretend they are taking dancing lessons. Encourage them to experiment with different kinds of dance movement.

Dancing Fingers

Encourage children to move their hands to the music as they finger paint. Talk about the music and the ways children are moving their fingers to it.

Decorate and Match Uppercase and Lowercase Letters

Have children decorate and match pairs of uppercase and lowercase letters.

Decorate (“C”)

Cut out a large lowercase letter “c” for children to decorate together.

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