Diddle Diddle Dumplings: Colors/Shapes

Lesson Plan Week of: ___________

THEME: Colors/Shapes

GOALS:

· Language

o Recognize and trace “C”

o Recognize the “Circle”

o Recognize first letter of their name

o Recognize and say their vocab words

o Recognize the colors “red”, “blue”, “green”, and “yellow”

o Recognize the colors “amarillo” and “verde”

· Self-Help Skills

o Use fork/spoon at least twice during the week

o Actively recognize when it’s clean-up time, and independently put away one toy

· Cognitive

o Children will independently go to their circle time seat once

o Sit on spot during story time

o Recognize when to say please

· Emotional

o Appropriately share one toy when asked

o Recognize when they’re “sad”

· Physical

o Learn how to “jump”

· Social

o Play beside friends

Singing Time:

Barney: The Rainbow Song

I like red it's the color of an apple
Orange it's the color of an orange
Yellow it's a lemon and a beautiful sun, sun, sun
Green it's the color of the trees and lots of living things
And then there's blue for the sky
And purple that's a color that's fun, fun, fun
When you put these colors side by side
What do you think you’ve done
You’ve made a rainbow
And it's a really beautiful one!

OPEN SING- Sing any songs that the kids want

Opening (circle time):

Ask children to find their seats

Music and Finger plays: Colors (to the tune of: The Farmer in the Dell)

Oh, (name) is wearing orange,

Oh, (name) is wearing orange.

High Ho the derry oh,

(name) is wearing orange.

(Change name and colors accordingly)

Read-Aloud Story: *LIST BELOW, Find one at library for the week (You can read both a shape and color book each day or alternate)

ACTIVITY- Found a Color

PREPARATION

Cut circles from several colors of construction paper. Make several circles of each color, and make more circles than there are children. Put the paper circles in a brightly colored gift bag.

ACTIVITY

In turn, have each of your children pull a circle from the bag and name its color. Invite all the children to sing about the color in the following song

Music and Finger plays: Found A Color – (to the tune of “Mary Had A Little Lamb”)

“Rudy” found a color, color, color.
“Rudy” found a color
On a shape that’s round.

“Rudy” found a color, color, color.
“Rudy” found a color,
And red is what he found.

Repeat substituting the name of one of your children for Rudy and the name of the color selected for red.

ACTIVITY- Do you know what shape this is?

PREPARATION

Cut a circle, square, and triangle from felt.

ACTIVITY

As you sing the song hold up the appropriate shape and have the children help you name it before putting it on the flannel board.

Music and Finger plays: What Shape is this? - sung to "The Muffin Man"

Do you know what shape this is,
What shape this is, what shape this is?
Do you know what shape this is
I'm holding in my hand?

Read the book LMNO PEAS by Keith Baker

Introduce the letter “C”

Phonics: Play Letter “C” Video

Center	Category	Day	Activity	Description	Materials Needed
Sensory		E	Colored Rice	Fill the sensory table with colored rice. Provide toys for diggings. Have the children dig up felt shapes.	Sensory Table Colored Rice Felt shapes Digging toys
Sensory		T	Shape Sort	TEACHER GUIDED ACTIVITY From red poster board or construction paper cut out: 1 large circle, 1 medium size square, 1 small triangle. From blue poster board or construction paper cut out: 1 large square, 1 medium sized triangle, 1 small circle. From yellow poster board or construction paper poster board cut out: 1 large triangle, 1 medium sized circle, 1 small square. From green poster board or construction paper poster board cut out: 1 large triangle, 1 medium sized circle, 1 small square. Mix up the shapes and lay them out on a table or on the floor. Let the children take turns sorting the shapes into piles by color, by size and then by shape.	poster board or construction paper in red, blue, yellow and green
		T	Shape Sort
Centers	Creative Art	T	Edible Finger Paint	Make your own edible finger-paint with food coloring and vanilla pudding. Mix a couple of drops of each color into separate small bowls of pudding. (Add until desired color is reached.) Have child create artwork on waxed paper or paper plate	Vanilla pudding Food coloring Paper
	Fine Motor	T	Colored Cotton ball C Baked	Mix flour with water. We found 2 cups of water and 2 cups of flour was a perfect amount to give you 4 colors. You can use more or less. Split the mixture into 4 different bowls and make your colors. Spray a baking sheet with cooking spray. Have children dip cotton balls one by one into mixture and place on the freezer paper with “c” printout to make the letter “c”. Bake at 300 degrees for 45min to 1 hour. If you place the cotton balls next to each other they will stick together while baking, making a GREAT 3D letter “c”	2 cups flour 2 cups water Food coloring/Liquid watercolors (red, yellow, green, blue) Cotton Balls Baking pan/sheet Cooking Spray Freezer paper with “c” printout printed on it
	Fine Motor	TH	Colored Noodles	PREPARE BEFORE: Place noodles in a large container so that there is room for the alcohol. Add the alcohol and food coloring. Make sure all noodles are covered and let stand as long as you wish the longer the noodles are in the solution the brighter the colors are. You can use half a bag for one color and etc. Place noodles on paper towels to dry, it takes a few hours. Have students string noodles onto yarn or string to make necklaces	2lb Noodles (wheels, long tubes) anything that you can string. 3 bottles Alcohol Food Coloring
	Creative Art	TH	Kool Aid Art	Sprinkle a little dry kool aid mix onto a piece of paper. Have your child spray water from a spray bottle onto the paper. Use different colored kool-aid mix.	Paper Kool Aid Spray Bottles of water
	Cooking	F	Rainbow Cake	Mix the cake according to the directions on the box. Pour batter into a 9x13 pan. Drop red, yellow and blue food over the top of the cake. Take a plastic knife and swirl the colors the length of the cake. Try not to mix the colors much. Bake according to the directions on the box	1 white cake mix food coloring Cooking utensils
Movement/Music		E	Color Hokey Pokey	Select four colors of crepe-paper streamers and cut them into 12-inch strips (preferably red, yellow, green, and blue). Cut four streamers (out of each color) for each of your children. Sort the streamers by color and put the four groups on the floor. Let each of your children select two streamers of any color and hold one in each hand. Invite the children to stand in a circle and sing the following song.. Remind them to listen carefully for the color words, and explain that they will not have a matching streamer to put in and out for every verse. Color Hokey-Pokey - sung to The Hokey Pokey You put blue in, You take blue out. You put blue in And you shake it all about. You do the hokey-pokey and you turn yourself around. That’s what it’s all about! Repeat, naming a different color each time.	Crepe paper

Weekly Vocabulary Words:

· Red

· Yellow

· Green

· Blue

· Circle

· Square

· Triangle

Color Books

A Color Clown Comes to Town - Magic Castle Readers
A Color Of His Own - Leo Lionni
A Picture For Harold's Room - Crockett Johnson
Barney's Color Surprise - Mary Ann Dudko and Margie Larsen
Big Bird's Red Book - Rosanne and Jonathon Cerf
Blue Bug's Vegetable Garden - V. Goulet
Brown Bear, Brown Bear What Do You See? - Bill Martin, Jr.
Brown Cow, Green Grass, Yellow Mellow Sun - Ellen Jackson
Cat's Colors - Jane Cabrera
Colors - John J. Reiss
Colors Around Us - Shelley Rotner and Anne Woodhull
Colors Everywhere - Tana Hoban
Go Away, Big Green Monster! - Ed Emberley
Harold And The Purple Crayon - Crockett Johnson
If You Take A Paintbrush - Fulvio Testa
If You Want To Find Golden - Ellen Spinelli
Is It Red? Is It Yellow? Is It Blue? - Tana Hoban
Kipper's Book of Colors - Mick Inkpen
Lily Pig's Book Of Colors - Amye Rosenburg
Little Blue And Little Yellow - Leo Lionn
Mouse Paint - Ellen Stoll Walsh
My Crayons Talk - Karas
Planting A Rainbow - Lois Ehlert
Purple Is Part Of The Rainbow - Carolyn Kowalczyk
Purple, Green, and Yellow - Robert N. Munsch
Rosie Rabbit's Colors - Patrick Yee
The Colors - Monique Felix
The Purple Coat - Amy Hest
Who Said Red? - Mary Serfozo

Shapes Books

A Wing On A Flea: A Book About Shapes - Ed Emberley
Baby Bop Discovers Shapes - Stephen White
Boxes! Boxes! - Leonard Everett Fisher
Circles, Triangles, and Squares - Tana Hoban
Magic Monsters Look For Shapes - Jane Belk Moncure
Pancakes, Crackers, and Pizza: A Book of Shapes - Marjorie Eberts and Margaret Gisler
Shapeman, What Do You See?
Shapes - John Reiss
Shapes and Colors - Denise Lewis Patrick
Shapes, Shapes, Shapes - Tana Hoban
Shopping Spree Identifying Shapes - Monica Weiss
Spence Makes Circles - Christa Chevalier
Wilbur Worm - Richard and Nicky Hale and Andre Amstutz

Alternate Songs

Colors

Blue is the lake,
Yellow is the sun,
Silver are the stars,
When the day is done.
Red is the apple,
Green is a tree
Brown is a chocolate cookie for you and me - YUM!

Friendly Shapes (felt board)
Little Cindy Circle rolls along the ground;
She has no corners - she just spins around! (circle)
Sammy Square is his name;
He has four sides, all the same....1,2,3,4! (square)
Danny Diamond is shaped like a kite;
He has four points - I know that's right....1,2,3,4! (diamond)
Tracy Triangle with corners three;
Count the corners now with me...1,2,3! (triangle)

Alternate Activities

Color Changes
This is a terrific visual experience of color changes. Make red, yellow and blue ice cubes using food coloring and water. Place one red and yellow in a ziplock baggie, one red and blue in a ziplock baggie, and yellow and blue, and just for fun one of each color in one bag. Place them in the science area, as the colored ice cubes melt they create new colors. Have the children keep going back to check on the process!
Color Squeeze
1 medium ziplock bag
Shaving cream (white)
Food coloring
Squirt white shaving cream inside the ziplock bag, add a few drops of food coloring, and close the bag, making sure that all the air is out. This gives your child the opportunity to explore mixing colors (red and yellow makes orange, etc.) -- and there's no mess to clean up afterwards! Or clip a corner & finger paint with it.
Shape Mobile

Cardboard

paper shapes crayons

scissors

yarn

tape

hole puncher

Cut yarn into strings. Knot one end of each piece of string and tape the other to make a needle. Children can punch holes in the shapes and string them for hanging.
Children may wish to use the cardboard cutouts to trace more shapes. Make sure to talk about the shapes that they are using