The Color/Shape Lesson

My name is ____________. Today is ____________, July ___, 2012. It is _____ degrees, _________, and _________. What are going to do today? ___________________. What should I wear? ____________________. Where will we be? _________________. Who will join in?_________________. When will this happen?___________________.

Day
Monday

Words
Colors, Rainbow, Prism

Number

Colors/Shapes

Rhymes
Fred Red bumped his head; Had to be fed in bed. Mellow Yellow is a funny fellow; He only eats yellow Jell-O. Sue Blue got the flu--Boo Hoo, Boo Hoo Jean Green is so mean; She's the meanest Jean I've seen. Burple Purple is a nerple! Ollie Orange ate all the oranges. John Brown went to town; He is such a silly clown. Jack Black sat in the back. Willie White is always right!

Activity/Project
Watch Signing Times - Colors of the Rainbow (5 minutes). Sort cut paper into 3 stacks by today's colors. Go on a hunt for items around the house in these colors. Use legos to create a red/yellow/red/yellow color pattern and get kid to follow suit. Watch Signing Times - Colors of the Rainbow (5 minutes). Sort cut paper into 3 stacks by today's colors. Use legos to create a blue/green/blue/green color pattern and get kid to follow suit. Stack color rings correctly by name. Match fuzzy balls by color. Do shape puzzles. Write name of color (in crayon in the correct color) inside of drawing of each shape and have your tot color each shape. Sort shapes using cutouts, blocks, items found around house.

1, 2, 3, Red, Orange, Yellow 4, 5

Tuesday

1, 2, 3, Green, Blue Purple 4, 5

Wednesday

Shapes

1, 2, 3, Circle, Oval, Square, 4, 5 Rectangle, Triangle

Day
Thursday

Words

Number

Animal(s)/Machines

Rhymes

Activity/Project
Play with shape sorter. Put all shapes in a box and try to pull out one shape at a time and name it and/or call out a shape and try to find the correct one.

1, 2, 3, Octogon, Heart, Star, 4, 5 Moon, Flower

Friday

Colors, Shapes

1, 2, 3, 4, 5

Play sorting games: color, shape, size, etc Pull a shape out of a box and name the shape and color. Draw and color a rainbow.

shape puzzles, shape sorting box, shoe box, construction paper cutout of shapes in different sizes, large size legos, crayons Helpful Videos Pre-K Color Theme Videos Playlist (14) http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXI5QNACmzqc8Zk2GZzn23l_x8-ffRzpG&feature=view_all Pre-K Shape Theme Videos Playlist (9) http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXI5QNACmzqdIH2-RVBvpVDD3_VUoiAft&feature=mh_lo Books Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?; A Rainbow of My Own; Shapes, Shapes, Shapes; So Many Circles, So Many Squares Songs Red, red is the color I see. If you are wearing red then show it to me. Stand up, turn around. Show me your red then sit back down. Then replace red with the other colors. It's easy and fun. Scat the cat was a black cat. Everyone in his family was black. But Scat the Cat was tired of being like everyone else. So he said (snap fingers) "I'm Scat the Cat I'm Sassy and Fat I change my colors just like that." So Scat the cat changed into a (name of color). He was as (green as the grass; blue as the sky, red as an apple, yellow as a lemon, orange as an orange,). Scat the Cat enjoyed being a (name of color) for a few days. But then he got tired. So he said: (Repeat Scat the Cat Verse) *After naming last color: Well Scat the Cat had changed his colors many times. He found out that it wasn't so bad being a black cat. So he said, (Repeat verse) Do you know what shape this is, What shape this is, what shape this is? Do you know what shape this is that I'm holding in my hand? Color and shape songs website: http://www.songsforteaching.com/colorssongs.htm Games http://www.learninggamesforkids.com/preschool_games/match-three-shapes.html Extras Gray, Black, White, Brown

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