Materials
The unit materials list below gives you an overview of all the materials you will need throughout this 4-week unit, except for the materials used in the Learning Centers (those are indicated with each Learning Center). Note that you will also find a list of specific materials needed for each week at the beginning of that week.
- Between the Lions alphabet chart
- building blocks (blue, green)
- CD
- camera
- cardboard box, large
- chart paper
- name chart
- clear mixing bowl, plastic bottles, plastic cups
- clipboard
- color splash cards (red, blue, yellow, green, purple, orange, brown, black)
- construction paper strips (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple)
- craft sticks, straws, or empty paper towel tubes
- crayons (64 ct. box or more)
- crepe paper streamers or ribbons (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple)
- finger paints (red, blue, yellow, white, black)
- flashlight
- flat plastic mirror
- food coloring (red, blue, yellow)
- glass or plastic prisms
- glue sticks
- green and red construction paper
- letter cards A–Z
- magnetic letters
- map or globe showing Africa
- markers, pencils, pens
- mirror (flat, plastic)
- multicultural paints and crayons
- newspapers
- objects (small) that are blue, brown, orange, red, yellow, green
- paint squares (available for free at hardware and paint stores)
- paintbrushes
- paper circles, multiple copies (red, blue, yellow, green, purple, orange, brown, black, white)
- paper squares, 2” to 3” (red, blue, yellow, green, purple, orange, brown, black, white)
- pictures of objects that begin with /k/, /p/, /r/, /y/
- plastic eyedroppers or pipettes (preferably 6” jumbo pipettes available from science supply companies)
- plastic plates
- sandpaper
- scissors
- sentence chart and sentence strips
- shaving cream
- sheets of colored acetate (gels) or color paddles (available at local art supply or craft shops or from educational supply houses) or transparent colored pages used as notebook dividers
- sunglasses (child-sized, plastic, inexpensive ones often sold as party favors)
- tape
- tempera paints (red, blue, yellow, white, black)
- video recorder (optional)
- white ice cube trays (available in local stores or can be ordered online)
- word cards black, blue, brown, color, green, orange, paint, purple, red, yellow
Books
Is It Red? Is It Yellow? Is It Blue? by Tana Hoban
A nonfiction, photographic book that teaches children colors by showing every day items in their environment and by directing them to look for specific colors in each photograph.
Mouse Paint by Ellen Stoll Walsh
A concept book about color, in which three mice discover jars of red, blue, and yellow paint and explore mixing them using their feet and hands.
Red Is a Dragon by Roseanne Thong
A concept book about colors, the book follows a young Chinese-American girl as she tells about brightly colored objects from her Asian heritage.
Spicy Hot Colors by Sherry Shahan
A jazzy poetic text introduces color words in English and Spanish with images, rhythm, and dance steps.
The Colors of Us by Karen Katz
Seven-year-old Lena and her mother explore identifying and mixing the many different skin colors of people in their neighborhood.
Videos
“A Peep of a Different Color” (PEEP show) (0:08:45)
“Colorful Food” (BTL clip) (0:00:26)
“Finger Paints” (BTL clip) (0:00:48)
“Fred Says: rocket” (BTL clip) (0:00:50)
“It’s Red! It’s Green!” (BTL show) (0:06:38)
“The Many Meanings of Cool” (BTL clip) (0:01:33)
“Mixing Paint” (PEEP show) (0:01:28)
“Rocket-Doodle-Doo” (BTL clip) (0:01:07)
“Spicy Hot Colors” (BTL show) (0:05:22)
“Things That Are Red” (BTL clip) (0:00:26)
“Word Morph: cage-cave-cake-cook” (BTL clip) (0:00:22)
“Word Morph: rug-rose-rocket” (BTL clip) (0:00:12)
“Word Morph: yell-yellow-yo-yo” (BTL clip) (0:00:16)
“Words Beginning with ‘p’ ” (BTL clip) (0:00:24)
“Words Beginning with ‘y’ ” (BTL clip) (0:00:16)
“Yellow” (BTL clip) (0:00:31)
Songs
“Color Hokey Pokey”
“Good Morning”
“Good-bye to You”
“Here We Are Together”
“If You’re Wearing”
“If Your Name Is in My Hand”
“Mice Mix Colors”
“Oh, Do You Know Two Rhyming Words?”
“Our Good-bye Song”
“Rainbow Song”
“Red Hat, Green Hat”
“Rocket Doodle Doo” (BTL clip)
“Sing, Sing, Sing with Me”
“Traffic Light”
“Where Is?”
Poems
“A Kite”
“Finger Paints” (BTL clip)
“Peter Piper Paints”
“Ryan Reads”
“Three Little Mice” (finger play)
“Yellow” (BTL clip)
Interactive Games
“Arty Smarty Doors” (BTL)
“Paint Splat” (PEEP)