Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Time For Tots: Colors

With kids things don't have to be complex. I prepared this week's Time For Tot's day in about ten minutes.

This week our theme was Colors!
It began with a few simple pages: identify the color pages, color word strips, and our color addition page.I gave the kids each two sheets of paper that had a square for each basic color. I then gave them a pile of word strips with the words of the colors. Lucas sounded out the words and was able to figure out were each word went.

Even Alex was sounding out the words "buh-buh" she kept saying as she picked up the word blue. "rrr" "rrr" she would say with red.

I then had Lucas pick one of the words from each page to practice writing. Alex drew more squares with each color.


Then we talked about primary colors (red, yellow and blue) and secondary colors (green, orange and purple) using some color math.
And the best way to learn things in life is to apply them! So naturally we made cupcakes. We used just red, yellow and blue food coloring to get all of the colors of the rainbow.
It was a colorful and tasty day!

16 comments:

  1. Oh I loooved these pictures! So bright and cheery (not to mention educational). That last one is precious. Hope you guys are having a fun week- though it already looks like it!

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  2. P.S. I think everything should be taught with cupcakes.

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  3. i love that first pic of the crayons. and the cupcake face;-)

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  4. Fun way to teach. You are such a great mom!

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  5. Looks like a fun way to learn, and like Dorkys said, "Everything should be taught with cupcakes!"

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  6. You totally rock lady!!! Great pictures and the fact that it only took you ten minutes to put it together!!!

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  7. Yummy and fun and cute!!! You covered all the bases.

    I need to do this.

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  8. The best Emily! I just absolutely LOVE the colorful cupcakes. My kids totally loved these pictures too!

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  9. To reinvorce the learning process with cupcakes...brilliant!

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  10. I agree that food can be a great teaching tool:) What a fun activity!

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  11. What a fabulous activity!!!!! and YUMMY too=)

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  12. You are just so creative! I love this!!!!

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  13. It looks like a great day - and 10 minutes of planning, wow!

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  14. Cute idea with the colors! The kids look like they enjoyed it too. :O)

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