Colors

Circle Time

Play the Teddy Bear Game which teaches colors, learning names, and also the concept of going to the store to buy something. --submitted by Lois Paior in Australia

Snack Time

• COLORED WATER - make ice cubes of various colors using either food coloring or koolaid. Serve ice water for snack time and allow the children to choose an ice cube. If you are learning about color mixing, make the ice cubes in the primary colors and have the children each choose two ice cubes. --Submitted by Susan Emery
• COLOR SNACKS - We used Boardmaker by Don Johnston to create these communication boards for each color. Each board has four foods of one color. At the top are the symbols, "I tasted ___". At the bottom are the symbols for "I like ____". We had the children color the foods the appropriate color, and then helped them to tell us which foods they liked. We circled the ones that they liked and crossed out the ones they didn't. We focused on the following learning objectives based on the needs of each student.
  1. Identifying a color
  2. Tasting new foods
  3. Answering yes/no (ex. "Do you like carrots?")
  4. Using appropriate language or other communication to refuse items
  5. Naming different foods

Zip file of all Window format boards

--Submitted by Wendy Gill

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