Kindergarten
Materials:
Materials:
tag board color wheel with primary and secondary color names written in
magazines
scissors
glue and glue brushes
Books: Color dance, Mouse paint
This lesson is about introducing the kids to colors, the primary and secondary colors and color mixing.
Discussion:
1. With the kids sitting on the rug, tell the kids we are going to talk about color and asked them what there favorite colors are. They come up with great answers; Caribbean Blue, Lime green…Then you can read the book “Color dance”
2. Then write red, blue, yellow on the board and asked what is special about those colors - . you can make all the other colors by mixing them - called primary colors.
3. Ask what blue - yellow, red - yellow, and blue-red make. Ask if anyone knows what these colors are called. - secondary colors. One boy said his favorite color was yellowy-orange so we talked about how to mix that- yellow and red to make orange and then a little more yellow.
4. Show them the tagboard color wheel. Tell them each table will be working together to make one color wheel. Demonstrate how to look for a color in a magazine, rip or cut out a color from a magazine, decide where it goes and glue it on. Go over the names of the colors - most of the kids can’t read yet. Tell the kids to rip or cut out big pieces of color. It doesn’t matter if there is writing or other images on it too.Tell them to try to fill in the entire pie piece with its color. Use liquid glue in cups with glue brushes.
Project:
1. Have teacher dismiss kids to tables about 4 kids per table.
2. If some tables finish before others, they can come back to the rug and someone can read “Mouse Paint. After reading “Mouse Paint” I asked the kids questions about color mixing like, If you were a white mouse trying to hide from the cat and you ran into an orange room but all you had was red, blue and yellow paint, what could you do?
3. When everyone is finished, you can tape the color wheels to the board and ask the kids if anyone wants to come up and talked about their color wheel.
They usually have great things to say: One girl said she put brown in the middle of the color wheel because she thought if she mixed all the colors it would be brown. One girl found Caribbean Blue and pointed it out on her color wheel. One boy named his a rainbow wheel and put a rainbow in the middle.
I liked how everything was laid out for us - it was so easy to do the lesson and required no prep...
ReplyDeleteAlso, for our first time as docents with the kids, it was probably good to have a project without mess - on the other hand, I found it quite abstract as an introduction to primary and secondary colors. At that age, kids need to see" with their hands, so actually mixing the colors would have given them a more hands-on experience. But as I'm sure Carla and Pam put a lot of thought into this, they were probably trying to have the first lesson be more controlled and less messy.
The color wheel you taped on the board w construction paper helped illustrate the content, and I liked how Lynn set the mood by setting out all the fun scarves and fabrics of different colors.
I also liked the part Mrs Paccione added, where she" mixed" the colors of two students' t-shirts.
Sending them off with "homework" - looking for different colors in their surroundings and giving those colors names seemed like a good idea, so they would try to fit their newly acquired knowledge into their every day world. -annette
tips: when demonstrating finding and cutting colors for the wheel, make it a big piece. the kids got a little caught up in making tiny, tiny contributions & it took a while to fill up the wheel.
ReplyDeletewhat worked for us: instead of writing the primary colors on the board we used appropriately colored construction paper since most kids are pre-reading. we left these in the bin.
when we meet as a group on the rug after making the wheels to discuss the project, each child go up to discuss. one boy said the yellow he found was from a lion's mane. The conversation shifted to how there are so many different types of yellow in nature and the world. Ms. Paccione went around the room pointing to different colors and the kids described: gut pink, dark night blue, halloween orange & christmas red.
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