Color Pals

 Here are the Color Pals! We make these to go along with our color words. They are also great for PreK and even younger! Color Pals a little book/friend that students make to learn the color word and items that are that specific color. Take a look at the pics. In my class, anything with arms and legs is a hit. Not sure why, but they love it and they love crafts. Check out Color Pals in my TpT Store. 

Colors included are:

red

orange

yellow

green

blue

purple

brown

black

pink

white

gray/grey

 

My Kindergarten Color Words

My color word unit is out and ready for those of us that are thinking about the new school year. (Yes, we are crazy.) Kindergarten has changed so much over the past 10 years. We are expecting our little ones to begin reading the second they walk into the room. And, as we all know, many are just not ready. This unit begins the reading process in Kindergarten by teaching them their first sight words: Color Words! Not only is it important, but they are fun and engaging to little eyes. They feel successful because they already know (or think they know) what the colors are. Now, all you have to do, Teach, is to match the word to the color. 

This unit is designed to help students READ color words. This will be done by cutting and pasting, writing and finding, coloring and matching so that color words become easy to read.

Colors include: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, pink, black, brown, white, gray and also.....grey.

Each color includes these activities:
1. Color Word Poster
2. Cut and paste word match
3. Build the color word
4. Write and find the color word.
5. Emergent reader.

Also included are center cards and activities as well as color word play-doh mats.

Reading color words should happen within the first two months of starting Kindergarten, so don't wait!

 My Kindergarten Color Words on TpT

 Color Word Posters

 Emergent Reader

 Write and Find It

 Build the Word

 Cut and Match

 Center Cards

Bonus Activities included as well as Play-doh Mats

Begin your year by showing your students that they can read. So much of their attitude about reading come from "I can't read." Show them they can and they wont want to stop. I use the Color Word Songs as well in my class. We sing them and sing them and sing them. By the time Christmas comes around I think if I hear the RED song again I am going to go completely crazy! Haha! Teaching Kindergarten is fun!

Color Poems

Every year, at the beginning of Kindergarten we begin learning the color words. If you are like me you own the color word CDs and sing them over and over until you can't stop. Then you sing them at home, in the shower, in your head all the time! The good news is: They work! Kids learn how to spell their color words very easily when they learn it in song. (Funny, that actually works for almost anything.)

I was growing tired of my old color word poem charts in my classroom and decided to make new ones. I thought I would share. Enjoy! They are a FREEBIE!

Go Away Big Green Monster!

It was green week in our class this week. We painted and constructed a paper plate frog with a party blower as his tongue. We made an alligator picture and read the story Baby Alligator by Robert Munsch. And we read Go Away Big Green Monster. The kids LOVE Big Green Monster.

I read this story and then re-read it using felt pieces on my felt board. The kids love using the felt board for story retell. Then me made a big green monster to hang up in our classroom.

I found a website that has amazing story retell props. It is call KizClub. They have many stories and I am looking forward to using a lot of them. The kids had fun putting their monsters together and I had fun watching them retell the story with their friends as they put their monster together.

Color Week

The last week of August we have Color Week in Kindergarten. Everyday we wear a different color. I send home a note to the parents the week before so we can all wear the color of the day.

Color Week Parent Note

For color week we read a lot of books and sing all the color songs. Some of my favorite books for color week are:
1. White Rabbit's Color Book by Alan Baker (We retell this story using a felt board.)
2. Dr. Seuss' My Many Colored Days
3. Dog's Colorful Day by Emma Dodd
4. Purple, Green and Yellow by Robert Munsch (Kids LOVE this book!)
5. Mouse Paint by Ellen Stoll Walsh

We do color mixing during the week. Of course we are learning to name the colors, but my students always think it's magic to make new colors. I use a page of out The Mailbox's Superbook Kindergarten for my experiment.

 We color the first and second steps with crayons. Then we use tempera paint for the mixing part.

Another activity we do is a Fruit Loop color sort. Here is the mat we use: Fruit Loop Sort

The students will color the mat with their crayons first. (I recommend underlining each color word with their correct color to help the kids do this right.) Then we get a cup of Fruit Loops and sort them on our mat. After we sort we get to eat them!

And of course we color a rainbow. The kids do such a great job on this easy project, but I do recommend underlining the color words with the correct color. I am not trying to test their ability to read color words. I am trying to get them to match colors.

Rainbow Coloring Page

Color Week is a lot of fun!