Zoe is our rainbow girl - she loves everything about them and had a rainbow party for her 5th birthday. So I knew a color unit had to come along at some point! Today was a good lesson in how interest makes all the difference in effort, at least for my kid.
After some reading and handwriting practice, we checked out the pile of paint samples.
An unnamed student had a brief time out...
while Zoe sorted the cards into color families.
Lucy stamped Lucy, Zoe, Mom, and Dad on her paper.
It was the first thing she showed Daddy when he came home.
Zoe did a great job copying and then tracing the color words.
We took our time and worked on letter formation.
We talked about color shades and how adding white to a color changes the shade. We glued down the samples to make a poster and Zoe added her color labels. Lucy quickly caught onto the concept of darker and lighter and was good at sorting them.
Then, I took a turn with each on using the Inchimals. I read stellar reviews of these before I bought them, but they are awesome! They both played with them but were doing tons of mathematical thinking too. Lucy and I made stairs and compared sizes. The 1" ladybug climbed up the stairs and we talked about how that made the stair as tall as the one next to it.
Then Zoe and I took turns stumping each other. We would set out a set of animals and the other would have to find the right pieces to match them (so the 4" animal and the 5" animal could be matched by the 9" or the 8" and 1"). She loved this and I tried to work in addition sentences as we played.
Here is our finished poster (in the hallway so everyone can see it instead of the school room) and our rainbow paintings we did later in the day. I think today might have been Zoe's favorite day so far.
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