Unit 2: Colors All Around

Sing a greeting song and help children recognize their names in print by holding up their name cards when you sing their name.

Discuss what happens when two primary colors are mixed together to make a new color.

Have children explore mixing two colors of paint to create new colors.

Watch Peep, Quack, and Chirp as they discover what happens when different colors are mixed together.

Write a poem with children about the color orange.

Introduce the letter “Pp” and the word paint.

Help children begin to write the letter “Pp.”

Send a Family Connection letter home with children.

Sing “Here We Are Together” with children as they hold up their name cards when they hear their name in the song.

Continue to explore mixing new colors with food coloring.

Have children explore mixing two different colors of water.

Teach children a finger play chant introducing the terms mouse, mice, and three.

Read a book about three mice that mix different colors with their feet.

Create simple color-mixing charts to represent what happens when colors are mixed.

Talk about the letter “Pp” and create a “Pp” dictionary.

Watch a Between the Lions video about words beginning with the letter “Pp.”

Sing the greeting song and hold up a name card to help children recognize their name in print.

Talk about primary colors and mixing primary colors to make new colors.

Have children explore looking at the world through colored transparent plastic sheets.

Read Mouse Paint by Ellen Stoll Walsh with children, focusing on how the mice “blend” in with their background.

Sing a song while referring to the color-mixing chart to help children review mixing two colors.

Have children watch Between the Lions “Finger Paints,” a video poem about mixing paint colors with fingers.

Help children recognize the letter “Pp” in their names.

Have children recognize and clap syllables in words with the letter "p."

Sing a song to each child as the group joins you in singing and clapping out the name syllables.  

Watch Between the Lions “Finger Paints” as a preview to children exploring using finger paints.

Have children explore mixing colors and shades of color with finger paints. 

Watch a video about three friends who explore colors by dipping themselves into jars of paint. 

Read aloud a book about color.

Have children recite a poem and clap the words that have the letter "p."

Help children continue to learn to write the letter “Pp.”

Help children find word cards that begin with the letter "p" to complete a group poem.

Sing “Here We Are Together” and have children stand when they see their name in print or hear their name in song.

Have children use their small motor skills as they recite a finger play about colors.

Have children explore looking at objects indoors through colored transparent materials.

Read a book about color to review colors and mixing colors.

Invite children to sing and act out the words to a song about mixing colors.

Help children match printed names of the color to their corresponding color circles.

Have children play an interactive online game and mix paints to match colors.

Review mixing colors and looking at colors through colored transparent plastic and the letter "Pp."

Give children any drawings and photographs taken of them during the week to share and talk about at home.