Green Week

The first unit we are working on in Pre-K is color and we started with the color green. I run a very structured schedule for my students. We do similar activities each week but we will always change the color and how we do them. The first week of school was very short. We did many get to know you activities and read A House for Hermit Crab. After reading the story, we all made our own shells. Each week we read the story on Monday and add something of our focus color to our shell.

The first week was tricky because Hermit Crab does not have anything green that he picks up and puts on his shell. There is green sea weed in the story so we added that to our board. 

From there we made play dough with cool aid with a recipe that I get from a recipe. I have made it four different times now and each time it comes out different. I used all of the same ingredients (small bag of flour, etc...) but I found that there is too much water! Just use one cup if you use this one. I also use two packets of kool-aid to make it smell better.

We go on a color hunt in the room where I give the camera over to the students. Then I print all of the pictures and put them on like-colored construction paper which we hang to decorate our room. Each week we had lots of things to our room to make it our own and this activity really helps them to do just that.

For one math center this week we sorted the multicolored goldfishes. Each student counted their fish, counted out the same number of colored paper squares and added them to a graph. After it was finished we talked about which color fish had more, which had less and if any of them had the same number. They really enjoyed this activity, the only difficult part was to not eat the fish until they were counted.