Link to Colors Songs/fingerplays

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O-R-A-N-G-E Story time

BOOKS:

The Carrot Seed, by Ruth Krauss


Pumpkin Trouble, by Jan Thomas

I honestly think Jan Thomas is one of my favorite authors of books for young children.  There are bright vibrant pictures and very simple text with a lot of teachable story elements.

SONG:

WE LOVE ORANGE
Tune:  “Three Blind Mice”

We love orange, we love orange.
Yes we do, yes we do—
Crunchy carrots so good to eat,
Juicy oranges, oh so sweet,
Pumpkins ready for trick-or-treat.
Yes, we love orange.

ACTIVITY:

We had a snack of clementine oranges and baby carrots.   We played a simple game of "Hot Potato" with an orange, so it was "Hot Orange".   We practiced passing the orange around a circle first of all, which was a skill that was not that easy for young children.  Instead of the person holding the orange when the music was over being "out", we just shook our hands in the air and went "woo hoo...yay"!

P-U-R-P-L-E story time

Books:
Ride a Purple Pelican, by Jack Prelutsky



Harold and the Purple Crayon, by Crockett Johnson


Songs/Fingerplays:

WE LOVE PURPLE
Tune:  “Frere Jacques”

We love purple,

we love purple.

Yes, we do.  Yes, we do.

Purple grapes and eggplant,

Purple plums and grape juice,

Just for me, just for you.

Crafts/Activities:

After reading Harold and the Purple Crayon, of course we had to complete our own drawing with the purple crayons.   (Magic erasers were at the ready, just in case some of the imagination ran off the paper :).

Y - E - L - L - O - W

Finding books for the color Yellow was somewhat of a challenge, with yellow in the title, with something yellow in the book, so I actually had quite a few duck, duckling, and chick books today.

Books:

Duck at the Door, by Jackie Urbanovic (yellow bill)



Little Quack, by Lauren Thompson



Song:

Five Little Ducks
Five little ducks went out to play
Over the hills and far away
When Mother Duck said quack, quack, quack,
4 little ducks came waddling back.

4 little ducks....
3 little ducks...
2 little ducks...
1 little duck

No little ducks went out to play,
Over the hills and far away.
(very stern voice) When Mother Duck said quack, quack, quack,
5 little ducks came waddling back.


Craft:

B-L-U-E - March 25, 2014

Blue Storytime

Books:
We actually had quite a few Blue books to choose from.  The two I chose were:

Little Blue Truck, by Alice Schertle


Blue Goose, by Nancy Tafuri


Some other choices that are good are
I Love You, Blue Kangaroo!, by Emma Chinchester Clark
Have You Seen My New Blue Socks?, by Eve Bunting
Blue Chicken, by Deborah Freedman
When Blue Met Egg, by Lindsay Ward
Baby Bear Sees Blue, by Ashley Wolff
The Blue House Dog, by Deborah Blumenthal
Peach & Blue, by Sarah Kilbourne
Blue, by Nicole Pritash

Nursery Rhyme:

Little Boy Blue

Song:

Instead of Mulberry Bush, how about "Here We Go 'Round the Blue Berry Bush".

Craft:

Crayon resist with blue watercolor paint on white construction paper