Color Mix-a-roo!

We continued to talk about colors at school this week. And, we had a lot of fun doing some more color mixing.

I made some red, yellow, and blue playdough and let the kids mix to their delight. Here James is mixing red and yellow to see what color it will make.

We also did some finger painting with the primary colors. They loved the cold, smooth feel of the paint on their hands.

We also did an experiment with skittles that I found off of prekinders.com where the colors separate from the candy, and the S on the skittles floats to the top. I told the kids we were going to perform a magic trick and make the S float to the top of the water while the skittle stayed at the bottom. They were amazed and could not wait to tell you parents that they could do a magic trick. So, if they want to try it at home, just take 3 skittles, put them around the edge of a bowl filled with a little water, and watch the magic happen.

We learned about the letter C this week. C is for cookie! We decorated our own cookie and used candy topping to trace our cookie C before we ate them.

For a math center, we had a ball! Or two, or three, or whatever number our dice landed on! For this center, we rolled a die and counted the number that it landed on. Then we took that many of our colorful balls and threw them into the basket.

We also practiced our coloring skills.

And our fine motor skills with these color coordinated puzzles.

For a word recognition center we had a bean bag toss where we tossed the correct color of bean bag onto the corresponding color word.

For a dramatic play area, we played with our colorful crystal builders. 

We reviewed letters A, B, and C this week. We practiced writing them with our dry erase upper and lowercase letters.

Books this week: Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See by Bill Martin Jr.

and

The Crayon Box that Talked by Shane DeRolf

Songs this week: 

Rainbow Song 

(to the tune of “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star”)

Red, orange, yellow, green, and blue.

Indigo and violet too.

Rainbow, rainbow in the sky.

Rainbow, rainbow way up high.

Red, orange, yellow, green, and blue.

Indigo and violet too.

and

our song about manners because we talked about always remembering to say Please and Thank You this week.

Please and Thank You

(to the tune of Frere Jacques)

Please and Thank you

Please and Thank You

We must say, We must say

When we ask for something

When we ask for something 

Everyday, Everyday

And, a BIG THANK YOU to Brett and his mom for bringing us a new class pet! We now have two soft, fuzzy caterpillars in our school that we get to watch transform into beautiful butterflies. We are so excited!!