color fun

We enjoyed activities based on colors this week.

• We read eight books about color: Cat's Colors, Brown Bear, Mouse Paint, White Rabbit's Color Book, Pete the Cat and His White Shoes, My Many Colored Days, A Color of His Own, and A Look at Colors. 
• We played color recognition and color matching games together at circle.
• We had many opportunities to paint this week, often mixing colors to create new colors.
• While reading Mouse Paint, we were able to mix colors in a bag and watch them change into a new color right before our eyes. Magic!
• We moved our bodies to songs about color, even sometimes getting to jump and bounce into pretend puddles of paint.
• We experimented with vinegar, baking soda, and food coloring. What fun!
• We really loved the magnetic Pete the Cat story during circle on Wednesday and had fun putting different colored shoes on Pete during free choice. 
• We wore our favorite color to school and created a graph showing the favorites of the class.
• We sorted by color-  painted ping pong balls into egg cartons, pom poms into cardboard tubes, colorful bears into cups, pie ingredients into a sectioned pie, etc.
• We had fun painting with shaving cream and bright colors.
• We colored onto coffee filters with markers and then sprayed the filters with water to watch the colors run into one another. 
• We looked in magazines to find colorful objects, then cut them out and glued them onto a large sheet of paper in color categories. 
• We created colorful bracelets and bag chains using pipe cleaner and colored straws.