Colors and Shapes

Objectives:

Students will be able to identify the color words red, orange, yellow, green, blue.

Students will be able to identify a feeling to correspond to a color.

Students will be able to identify and define the shapes circle, triangle, square, rectangle.

Students will be able to find shapes in everyday environment.

Students will be able to organize various shapes to create an picture.

Students will be able to sort by shape and sort by color.

To learn about shapes and colors, we read the book Freight Train by Donald Crews and made our own trains by reading the color words.  If you want to practice your colors and letters go to the website: http://www.jupiterparents.com/children/games/matchingcolors/games10.shtml and try the challenging game there!

We had lots of fun reading the book "The Color Zoo" and

seeing all of the different shapes you can use to make pictures

of animals.  For some fun using shapes to make pictures try

the website:  http://www.kidscom.com/games/tangram/tangram.html try the different tangrams and have fun!

OUR FRIENDSHIP FRUIT SALAD WAS A BIG HIT!

Thanks to the help of the children, we were able to taste a yummy fruit salad filled with all different colors and shapes of fruit.  What better way to end the unit on colors and shapes than to taste this salad, read the book "Eating the Alphabet" and write about our favorite fruit.