BYU-Idaho Preschool Lesson Plan

Lesson Plan #7
Lab Number 6
Primary and Secondary Colors
Date:
Wednesday, May 16, 2016
Supervisor:
Hallie Glidewell
Lead Teacher: Marisa Dawson
Children and Learning/Development Goals:
1. Ellie has a goal to spell her name. We will help Ellie with this by putting her name on
the creative art table and helping her draw the letters of her name on the tray with
the shaving cream.
2. Mayli has a goal to increase word recognition. We will help Mayli with this by reading
books with Mayli.
3. Lydia has a goal to listen and follow through when asked to do something. We will
help Lydia with her goal at clean up time by asking her to put the toys away and
modeling how to do it.
4. Bridget has a goal to work on compulsive behavior. We will help Bridget with this goal
by giving her words to say such as, I feel angry that I didnt get a turn when she is
angry or frustrated.
5. Hyram has a goal to sustain his attention by sitting and listening and a goal of
following directions. We will help Hyram with his goals during transitions by giving
him warnings of what is about to happen and then we will direct and guide through
the transitions.
6. Bruin has a goal to improve speech pronunciation and letter sounds. We will help
Bruin with his goal by talking to Bruin in the block area and asking him questions
about what he is doing. We can have him repeat words we say.
7. Kroy has a goal to learn letters and to socialize with other children. We will help Kroy
with this by helping him recognize the letters found in dramatic play by pointing to
letters, saying them out loud, and having Kroy say the letters as well.
Pre-assessment and Findings:
As Miss Melissa pointed to the colors green, purple, pink, yellow, and orange; Ellie was able
to say all of the colors and needed a little help with the color orange. Mayli knows the colors
purple and pink. I asked Lydia, do you know what primary colors are? she didnt respond
but looked at me with a confused look. Lydia identifies the color orange, pink, and purple.
Bridget can identify the colors yellow, pink, and purple. She confused orange with red. I
asked her do you know what primary colors are? She said yes but could not tell me the
colors. I asked Bruin What are the primary colors? and he said yellow.
From this pre-assessment it showed me that children dont understand what the primary and
secondary colors are. I want to give them opportunities to experiment with those colors
using paint and watercolors.
Ideas to be Emphasized:
1. The primary colors are red, yellow, and blue.
2. The secondary colors are purple orange, and green, and are created by mixing the
primary colors together.
Preschool Concepts or Skills:
1. Colors: Primary and Secondary
2. Literacy
3. Fine motor

BYU-Idaho Preschool Lesson Plan

Lesson Plan #1
Lab Number 6
Primary Colors
Date:
Wednesday, May 16, 2016
Supervisor:
Hallie Glidewell
Lead Teacher: Marisa Dawson
Ideas to be Emphasized:
1. The primary colors are red, yellow, and blue.
2. The secondary colors are purple orange, and green, and are created by mixing the
primary colors together.
Preschool Concepts or Skills:
4. Colors: Primary and Secondary
5. Literacy
6. Fine motor
Assignments:
Lanie/Melissa/Rachel______ Self-Selected

Lanie________ Snack

Melissa___________ Small/Focus Groups

Hallie_______ Booth/ Photographer

Marisa/Rachel___________ Outdoor play

Marisa__________ Greeter/Walkie

Rachel_________ Runner/Floater

Hallie_________ Data Collector

SELF-SELECTED ACTIVITIES 8:20 - 9:50 a.m.

Literacy Activities/ Books: Color Zoo by Lois Ehlert (RR1 E5)
Colors Everywhere by Tana Hoban (RR1 H17)
Colors: How Do You Say It? by Meredith Dunham (RR1 D13)
Ruby, Violet, Lime: Looking for Color by Jane Bracket (RR1 R2)
Green by Laura Vaccaro (Madison Library call # E Seeger, Laura / Green)
My Very First Book of Colors by Eric Carle (Madison Library call # BB Carle, Eric / My-Colors)
I will provide all the Madison Library books.
Activity Description: Language and literacy will be embedded in dramatic play and creative art.
The book area will contain books that the children can read and look at.
Activity Name

Description/Activity Objective

* Creative Art:
Sponge Shaving
Cream Rainbows
(5)

Activity Description: Children will find their

name and use their fingers to write their names.
The sponges will be used to mix the different
colors together and make designs.

*Manipulatives:

Help children write their names.

Cover table with butcher paper. Put shaving
cream in 3 pallets. Mix the watercolor paint with
in each pallet. One red, one yellow, one blue.
Place trays on table and put sponges on the
trays. Place childrens name on table.
Activity Description:

Materials, Special Setup

Shaving cream (RR1)
Liquid water color: red,
yellow, and, blue (RR1OC6)
Sponges (RR1 O11)
Trays (RR1 OCA)
Names (Classroom)

Color Creatures (RR1 W20)

Color Creatures
(3)

Children will use the pieces of the Color

Creatures and put them together. This relates to
ITBE because all the pieces contain the primary
and secondary colors.
Child Objective: Children will use fine motor
skills to grasp small objects and connect them
to each other.

Math: Sort The

Colored Animal (3)

Activity Description:
Children will sort the colored animals to the
bucket with the corresponding color labeled on
the bucket. The labels will also have the color
with the word so that the children will know
what color goes to what.

Animal counters (RR2 R22)

Labeled buckets (IWP)

*Science: Colored
Milk Rainbows (4)

Activity Description:
Children will explore dropping colors in the milk
and then dropping soap to see the reaction.

Milk (kitchen)
3 clear containers (RR1
CA)
Clear Dish Detergent
Liquid water color: red,
yellow, and, blue (RR1OC6)
Droppers (RR1 O11)

Teachers model for children how to do this. Pour

milk into containers and place them on the
table. Have two containers to hold the soap and
three other small containers to hold a mixture
of water/watercolor paint. Place the droppers
next to the containers.
Sensory Table:
Colored Salt and
Sugar (3)

Blocks: Traffic
Signs (5)

Activity Description:
The children will mix the different colors of salt
together using their hands and the scissor
scoopers in the sensory table.
Place the salt and sugar in the sensory bin.
Sprinkle red in the middle of the table, yellow
on the side and blue on the other side so that
the colors are separate.
Activity Description: Children will build roads
using the blocks and use the cars and trucks on
the roads.
Set up some blocks as a road and put a few cars
and trucks on it. Put the various traffic signs on
the floor next to the road.

Salt (RR2 G139)

Powdered paint (RR1OC6)
Scissor Scoopers (RR2
G129)

Colored blocks (RR2 B12)

Cars and trucks (RR2 B34)
Traffic signs made out of
colored construction paper
(IWP)

Child Objective: Children will use fine motor

skills as they pick up blocks, cars, and trucks
and place them in positions on the floor.
Dramatic Play:
Ice Cream And
Sweet Shop (7)

Activity Description: Children will pretend

play making ice cream and treats and as well as
buying and selling them. Children will make
cardboard cookies by gluing small objects onto
a cardboard circle.
Put the sign on the easel and write different

Shop sign (IWP)

Words for all the goods
(IWP)
Bakery treats (RR2 Y 230)
Ice Cream Parlor (RR2
Y252)
Paper bags (RR1 C5)

flavors of ice cream as well as a few baked

goods including cookies. Set the cardboard
cookie stuff on table for them to create them.
Place ice cream and baked stuff on a shelf.
Place words by the corresponding objects.

Tissue paper (RR1 Art

Supplies 17)
Cardboard circles (IWP)
Elmers glue (RR1 O6)
Glue applicators (RR1 O16)
Small container (RR1 OCA)
Glitter glue (RR1 O8)
Pom poms, pipe cleaners
(lab)

Creative Art:
Play Dough
Creations 5

Description: Children will use the play dough

toys and play dough to create shapes and
objects.

Play dough (lab)

Play dough toys (RR1
G124)

2nd: Chalk Up The

Night Sky 5

Description: Children will see how the bright

colors appear on the black paper as they draw
on the paper with the chalk.

Colored chalk (RR1)

Black paper (WR)

Alternatives:

ROTATING SNACK
Crackers and Juice

9:00-9:50 a.m.

OUTDOOR PLAY
Playground

9:10-9:50 a.m.

Location: South

*Gross Motor:
Ball Pit 3

Description: Put the pool on the grass

between the small playground and the big one.
Fill the pool will the colored balls.

Large pool (Small shed)

Colored plastic balls (RR2
O201)

Objective: Children will develop gross motor

skills as they jump into the ball pit and get out
again.
*2nd: Making
Rainbows 3

Description: Children will spray mist in

sunshine to look for the rainbow. Teachers
model by spraying the water and direct children
look for the rainbow.

Spray bottles with water in

them (RR1 CD)

*3rd: Color Mixing

Tubes (2) @

Description:
Children will choose two different colors of
water to put in the tube using a funnel. The
children will rock the tube back and forth mixing
the colors. The teacher will put tape over the
opening when they are done pouring the colors
in.

Plastic tubing
Funnel (RR2 G120)
Small bottles (RR1 O7)
Liquid water color: red,
yellow, and, blue (RR1OC6)
Duck tape (RR1)

Mix the watercolor with water in the water

bottles. There should be three water bottles
with three different colors.
CLEAN UP

9:50-9:55 a.m.
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The Clean Up Song Team sings together two times

GATHERING TIME
9:55-10:10 a.m. or 2:55-3:10 p.m.
Transition Sing The Color That I See three times using the colors red, yellow, and blue. At the end
of the song the third time when it says Show me your __________ and sit back down! Motion
children using hands and body by sitting and ask them to sit down.
Activity Name
1. The primary
colors are red,
yellow, and blue.

Description
Put water in the water bottles with the different
water colors in each bottle (red in one bottle,
yellow in one, blue in the other). Put the bottles
in a container. Put six clear glasses in the
container.
Put a tray down in front of you with white paper
over it. Place the cups on the tray.
Read Is it Red? Is it Yellow? Is it Blue?: An
Adventure in Color

Materials
Small bottles (RR1 O7)
Liquid water color: red,
yellow, and, blue (RR1OC6)
6 glass cups (Kitchen)
Butcher paper (RR1)
Tray (lab)

The primary colors are red, yellow, and blue

(pour these colors in three glasses), As you do
the actions have the children do the same.
They are the primary colors because they
create secondary colors when they are mixed
together.
2. The secondary
colors are purple
orange, and
green, and are
created by mixing
the primary colors
together.

The secondary colors are purple, green, and

orange.
I will mix the primary color red with the
primary color yellow to make the secondary
color orange (pour a little of the red and yellow
into a new cup).
Have children pour and pretend to stir the
colors together.
What color did red and yellow mixed together
make?
I will mix the primary color red with the
primary color blue to make the secondary color
purple (pour a little of the red and blue into a
new cup).
What color did red and blue mixed together
make?
Again have the children do actions with you.
I will mix the primary color yellow with the
primary color blue to make the secondary color
purple (pour a little of the yellow and blue into a
new cup).
What color did yellow and blue mixed together
make?

SMALL FOCUS GROUP

10:10-10:25 a.m.
Your Activity

Description & Objective

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Materials

Transition to Small
Focus Groups

Distribute evenly and put red, yellow, orange

and blue stickers on the nametags before
children come. Each teacher will also wear a
different colored sticker.

Red, blue, yellow,

orange paper (IWP)

Teacher with red sticker stands up. If you

have a red sticker on your name tag stand
up.
You will go with Miss
Teacher with blue sticker stands up. If you
have a blue sticker on your name tag stand
up.
You will go with Miss
Teacher with yellow sticker stands up. If you
have a yellow on your name tag stand up.
You will go with Miss
Teacher with orange sticker stands up. If you
have an orange sticker on your name tag
stand up.
You will go with Miss
Creating Secondary
Colors From Primary
Colors
Lab 6

Activity Description:
Children will paint the primary colors on white
paper. Then they will paint the corresponding
paint over the top to make secondary colors.
Put 2 pallets on each table. Put all three colors
separately on the pallets. Set out white
construction paper where the children will be
sitting. Set out the paintbrushes next to the
white construction paper.
Read the book and then direct the children
with painting the primary and secondary
colors.
Child Objective: Children will develop fine
motor skills as they grasp the paintbrushes
and use them to brush paint onto paper.

1) Smocks
Red, yellow, and green
tempera paint (RR1
OC6)
8 pallets (RR1 OCA)
Paint brushes (RR1 O15)
White construction
paper
2) Mix It Up! By Herve
Tullet (Madison
Library call # E
Tullet, Herv / Mix)
Little Blue and
little Yellow by Leo
Lionni (Madison
Library call # E
Lionni, Leo / Little)
I Lukas Quilt by
Georgia Guback
(Madison Library call
# E Guback, Georgia
/ Luka's)
Colors
Everywhere by
Sam McBratney
(Madison Library call
# BB McBratney,
Sam / Colors)

All the colors of the

Earth by Sheila
Hamanaka (Madison
Library call # E
Hamanaka, Sheila / All)
Went Walking by Sue
Williams (Madison
Library call # E
Williams, Sue / I)
They Thought They
Saw Him by Craig Kee
Strete (Madison Library
call # E Strete, Craig /
They)
What color was the
sky today? By Miela
Ford (Madison Library
call # E Ford, Miela /
What)
Coat of Many Colors
by Dolly Partin (Madison
Library call # E Parton,
Dolly / Coat)
Is it Red? Is it Yellow?
Is it Blue?: An
Adventure in Color by
Tana Hoblin (Madison
Library call # E Hoban,
Tana / Is)

CLOSING CIRCLE

10:25-10:40 a.m.

Transition Play Hanky Panky (G1) and do the actions with the children. Have them stand on the
squares you taped down. Have the children sit down on the squares after the song.

Activity Name
Color Dance

Description

Materials

Children will move in a circle stepping on colored squares

while music is playing. When the music stops, the children
say the color of the square on which they are standing.
Tape the squares to the ground before closing circle. Play the
music and show the children how to move from square to
square in a circle. Stop the music and tell them to freeze and
tell them what the square closest to them color is.

Colored
squares
(IWP)

Parade of Colors

Play the Parade of Colors on the cassette player while the

children are standing on a square. Have the children march
around in a circle on the squares and wave pretending they
are in a parade. You can have them switch directions by going
a different direction and telling them to go the other way.

Hap Palmer
CD #14
(RR2)

Scat The Cat

Tell the story Scat The Cat using cutouts of different colored
cats. Ask questions such as, what color of cat would you like
to be? Shorten story as needed.

Friend Match

Have teachers give one half of one color to each child (be
sure that each child will have another person who has the
other half!). Model with another teacher what you want them
to do.
Play ___________ for them and walk in a circle. Stop the music
and find the teacher with the color. Have the children do it
with you. Then have them switch colors and play again.

Cutouts:
Black, green,
blue, yellow,
and red cat
(IWP)
Different
colors of
construction
paper cut in
half (WR)

The Pirate Song

Carrot Seed
Little Miss Muffet

Have children stand up and sing the pirate song.

Tell the story of the Carrot Seed using flannel board pieces.
Tell the nursery rhyme Little Miss Muffet to the children and
use small actions like starting standing up then sitting down,
eating motions, move the spider back and forth and jump
away. Ask a teacher to come sit by you and model for the
children by having the teacher get scared of the spider and
run back to the tape and sit down. Tell them that when the
spider comes they must act scared and run back to the tape
on the floor and sit down. One by one have all the children
come sit by you and do the same.

WR
Paper spider
(IWP)

WORDS TO SONGS & FINGERPLAYS :

The Primary Song
Primary, primary what are you?
I am red or yellow or blue.
Primary, what can I do with you?
Mix us into colors that are new.
Primary, primary what are you?
I am red or yellow or blue.
The Color Song (Sung to the tune of the ABC song)
Red and orange, green and blue, shiny yellow, purple, too.
All the colors that we know live inside a rainbow.
Red and orange, green and blue, shiny yellow, purple, too
The Color That I See
______, ______ is the color that I see.
If you are wearing ________ then show it to me!
Stand up! Turn around!
Show me your __________ and sit back down!
Scat the Cat
Once upon a time there was a little black cat and his name was Scat the Cat. (Place black
cat on board)

One day he looked around and noticed that there were so many beautiful colors and he
wanted to be a different color, too!
So he said:
"I'm Scat the Cat. I'm sassy and fat and I can change my color just like that!" (take off the
black cat and snap your fingers.)
All of a sudden he was green (put up the green cat) like the trees and the grass. What else
was green? (Ask children to name green things)
He went out to play with his friends but they couldn't see him because he was the same
color as the trees and the grass.
He was so sad and decided he didn't want to be green anymore, so he said:
"I'm Scat the Cat. I'm sassy and fat and I can change my color just like that! "(take off the
green cat and snap your fingers.)
All of a sudden he was blue (put up the blue cat) like the water and the sky. What else is blue
like Scat? (Ask children to name blue things)
He walked to the lake to look in the water to see his reflection, but he fell in! He couldn't
swim and he called for help. But his friends couldn't see him because he was the same color
as the water.
Just then, his friend Timothy Turtle found him and carried him back to the shore on his shell.
Scat was very sad and decided he didn't want to be blue anymore, so he said:
"I'm Scat the Cat. I'm sassy and fat and I can change my color just like that!" (take off the
blue cat and snap your fingers.)
All of a sudden Scat was yellow (put up yellow cat) like the sun! What else is yellow like
Scat? (Ask children to name yellow things)
He walked in the jungle and came across Leo the Lion. Leo roared "I'M THE ONLY ONE WHO
IS YELLOW IN THIS JUNGLE!". Scat was so afraid and decided that he didn't want to be yellow
any more so he said,
"I'm Scat the Cat. I'm sassy and fat and I can change my color just like that!" (take off the
yellow cat and snap your fingers.)
All of a sudden Scat was red (put up red cat) like an apple. What else is red like Scat? (Ask
children to name red things)
He went to play with his friends by they laughed at him. After all, who ever heard of a red
cat?
Scat was very sad and decided he didn't want to be red anymore, so he said:
"I'm Scat the Cat. I'm sassy and fat and I can change my color just like that!"(take off the red
cat and snap your fingers.)
I don't want to be red, I don't want to be yellow, I don't want to be blue and I don't want to
be green. I want to be Scat the Black Cat again.
Scat changed back to black (put up black cat) and was happy just being himself.
The Pirate Song
When I was one, I had some fun
Chorus: Over the deep blue sea
I jumped aboard the pirate ship and the pirate said to me
Going over, going under, stand at attention like a soldier
With a 1,2,3!
When I was two I tied my shoe
Chorus
When I was three, I skinned my knee
Chorus
When I was four I shut the door
Chorus
When I was five I took a dive into the deep blue sea
Chorus
RESOURCES:

The Giant Encyclopedia of Circle Time and Group Activities for Children 3 to 6 by Kathy
Charner. http://www.preschool-plan-it.com/preschool-colors-theme.html#Drama
Madison Library
Sis. Lawrence
MATERIALS:
Many of the activities call for red, yellow, and blue watercolor paint. Only one
person needs to get the color.
Science:
Books: Bolded books are in RR2 the others I
Milk (kitchen)
will bring.
Clear Dish Detergent
RR1
Self-Selected:
3 clear containers CA
Mix It Up! By Herve Tullet (Madison Library call # E
Liquid watercolor: red, yellow, and,
Tullet, Herv / Mix)
blue OC6
Little Blue and little Yellow by Leo Lionni (Madison
Droppers O11
Library call # E Lionni, Leo / Little)
Lukas Quilt by Georgia Guback (Madison Library
Alternative:
call # E Guback, Georgia / Luka's)
RR1
Colors Everywhere by Sam McBratney (Madison
Colored chalk
Library call # BB McBratney, Sam / Colors)
Play dough toys G124
All the colors of the Earth by Sheila Hamanaka
Black paper WR
(Madison Library call # E Hamanaka, Sheila / All)
Play dough
Went Walking by Sue Williams (Madison Library call
# E Williams, Sue / I)
Outside:
They Thought They Saw Him by Craig Kee Strete
RR1 (Madison Library call # E Strete, Craig / They)
Spray bottles with water in them CD
What Color Was the Sky Today? By Miela Ford
Duck tape
(Madison Library call # E Ford, Miela / What)
Liquid watercolor: red, yellow, and,
Coat of Many Colors by Dolly Partin (Madison
blue OC6
Library call # E Parton, Dolly / Coat)
Plastic tubing
Is it Red? Is it Yellow? Is it Blue?: An Adventure in
Small bottles O7
Color by Tana Hoblin (Madison Library call # E
RR2
Hoban, Tana / Is),
Colored plastic balls O201
Funnel G120
Book Center:
Color Zoo by Lois Ehlert (RR1 E5)
Small Focus:
Colors Everywhere by Tana Hoban (RR1 H17)
RR1 Colors: How Do You Say It? by Meredith Dunham
Red, yellow, and green tempera
(RR1 D13)
paint OC6
Ruby, Violet, Lime: Looking for Color by Jane
8 pallets OCA
Bracket (RR1 R2)
Paintbrushes O15
Green by Laura Vaccaro (Madison Library call # E
Smocks (kitchen/laundry)
Seeger, Laura / Green)
My Very First Book of Colors by Eric Carle (Madison
Gathering time:
Library call # BB Carle, Eric / My-Colors)
RR1
Butcher paper
6 glass cups (Kitchen)
Tray (lab)
Creative art:
CDs:
RR1
Hap Palmer CD #14
Shaving cream
Hanky Panky G1
Liquid watercolor: red, yellow, and, blue OC6
Sponges O11
Trays OCA

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Childrens names (Classroom)

Sensory:
RR1
Powdered paint OC6
RR2
Salt G139
Scissor Scoopers G129
Blocks:
RR2
Colored blocks B12
Cars and trucks B34
Dramatic play:
Pom poms, pipe cleaners (lab)
RR1 Elmers glue O6
Glue applicators O16
Small container OCA
Glitter glue O8
Paper bags C5
Tissue paper Art Supplies 17
RR2
Bakery treats Y 230
Ice Cream Parlor Y252
Manipulatives:
RR1
Color Creatures W20
Math:
RR2
Animal counters R147
IWP:
Paper spider
Different colors of construction paper cut in half
Cutouts: Black, green, blue, yellow, and red cat
Cardboard cookies
Red, blue, yellow, orange paper for small focus transition
Shop sign
Words for all the goods
Colored labels for buckets

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