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COLOR FOCUS: Black, Yellow
Secondary
Color: OrangeFrom Stormie:
Black and Yellow
Collages: Place sheets of the "yellow" pages
from old phone books in your Art Center. Give the chidren an array of black
and yellow collage materials for creating their own masterpieces.
Orange
Snack: Provide each child with half an orange for snack. Start an edge
of the peel for them so they can then continue peeling their orange sections.
Extensions:
Fine Motor: After eating their oranges, let
them see how many pieces they can tear from their orange peels. With those
torn pieces, they can then count the pieces, compare sizes (pre-math),
and/or glue the pieces onto small orange, black, or yellow plates to create whatever
they want (creative art).
Eat yellow corn for snack!
Compare the orange colors of
oranges and pumpkins (both inside and out).
Compare the yellow
color of corn, pineapple slices, and banana peel.
Art Project:
Cut an orange in half and let children do orange prints on black paper as well
as yellow corn prints (stand the cobs upward and print with the ends of the cob). Use
the larger sized black construction paper.
Name "black" things that you think are really neat!
Leaf Collage: Gather fall leaves that have the colors orange and yellow in them. Bring them inside and make collages using the leaves and the same colors of paper "snips."
Collect animal pictures from magazines. Let children sort out all the animals with black skin, fur, or feathers.
Birds of Color:
Have children sort pictures of yellow and
orange feathered birds.
Patterning:
During Free Choice Playtime, play a color patterning game with individual children:
Arrange a pattern on a table using orange, black, and yellow squares and have
the child you're working with create the same pattern underneath yours. One
pattern sample might be: orange square, orange square,
black square, orange square, orange square, black
square, orange square, orange square, black square
*To increase the
difficulty, have children continue your pattern. You
can ask them, "What color square comes next?"
In other words, let's say you created the pattern above, the child would
then begin where you left off by continuing the same pattern (orange
square, orange square, black square).
Alternative Activity: Counting: Using all the color squares you have cut
out for the activity above, lay several of them out (not necessarily in a pattern)
and ask the children to count all the black squares, or the yellow squares, or
the orange squares.
Gross Motor: Create a sort of hopscotch game
on the sidewalk using pieces of orange, black, and yellow construction paper (laminated). Allow
each child to go through it three times by instructing them to first step only
on one color, then the other, and then the third. (You can rearrange
the pieces every now and then to provide more of a challenge.)
Creative
Drama: Pretend to be a black bat or a black cat.
*From
Alison,
in Texas:
Multi-Colored Celery: Stormie, for the letter Cc in October, I like to
let the children do that old familiar "celery" science experiment,
but I like to use an extra fat piece of celery so I can cut the stalk into two
sections. I then place two cups of water side by side (as close together
as possible). I put red food coloring in one cup of water and yellow
in the other. I then place the double-sectioned celery stalk into the water
-- one section of the same stalk in each cup.
*I'm
so grateful to Rama D. in Indiana for sending me her version of an old
familiar color game. She says she uses it for the Letter Cc (as in "C
is for cat") and to review the primary colors she focused on in September:
First, using the same cat pattern, cut out four posterboard cats (black,
red, yellow, and blue) and laminate them (so they'll last longer). Glue
a velcro strip to the backs for use on the flannelboard.
Now you are ready to tell the story of "Scat the Cat" (place
the cats on the flannelboard as called for in the story):
Scat the Cat
was a beautiful black cat who decided he wanted to be another color because all
his brothers and sisters were black and he didn't want everyone to look the same.
He wanted to be different. So, he arched his back and yelled, "I'm
Scat the Cat, sassy and fat, and I can change my color just like that (snap
fingers)!" And just like that, he was blue. He decided
to take a walk by the river to show off his beautiful new color. But
when he got there, he leaned over to watch some fish swimming by and he fell in
the water. He yelled for help but no one could see him because he was blue,
the same color as the water. He was very scared because he didn't know
how to swim. But soon, his friend, Tommy Turtle came swimming by and
let him ride to shore on his back. Scat decided that blue was not a very
good color for him since he liked going to the river, so he decided to be another
color. So, he arched his back and yelled, "I'm Scat the Cat, sassy
and fat, and I can change my color just like that (snap
fingers)!" And just like that, he was yellow. This
time he decided to take a walk in the jungle. But pretty soon, he met
Leo the Lion who roared, "Who do you think you are? You can't be yellow!
I'm the only cat in the jungle who can be yellow." He roared
so loud that Scat ran home scared. After he got home and took a nap, he
decided that he'd better be another color so he wouldn't make Leo angry the next
time he went for a walk in the jungle. So, he arched his back and yelled,
"I'm Scat the Cat, sassy and fat, and I can change my color just like that
(snap fingers)!" And just like
that, he was red. He was so proud and he thought this was the most beautiful color
of all. So, he went outside to show his brothers and sisters, but they all
started laughing at him and saying, "Cats aren't supposed to be red!" Now,
Scat the Cat was so sad because every color he wanted to be wasn't right for him
and got him into trouble, and he began to cry. But Mama Cat heard him
crying and came to give him a hug, and she said, "Scat, you were beautiful
just the way you were!" Scat knew she was right. So, finally,
he decided he wanted to be the color he used to be, so he arched his back and
yelled, "I'm Scat the Cat, sassy and fat, and I can change my color just
like that (snap fingers)!" And
just like that, he was black again. He went to the mirror and looked
at himself and he could see that yes, he was a big beautiful black cat.
Note: Rama says she repeats the story throughout the school year using additional
colors that create more troubling situations for Scat.
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