Theme 5

Lesson Plann Colors

er Week 1
Yellow
Starting the Day • Develops the inclination and ability to communicate, pay attention, and respond appropriately to others (B.3.f.)
• Develops a feeling of being valued as an important individual who belongs within the group setting (B.2.h.)

Language Development Cognitive Development

• Shows interest in colors, shapes, patterns, and pictures (D.1.c.)
• Develops language skills in structured language contexts, • Pays attention and exhibits curiosity in people and objects (D.1.a.)
such as through books, finger plays, singing, storytelling, • Demonstrates receptive language skills (C.1.d.)
and reenacting (C.2.d.)
• Shows interest in songs, rhymes, and stories (C.3.a.)
■ Photo Activity Card ■ Color Books
(31)

■ ■ ■ Fall Leaves
I Like Yellow Yellow Chicks ■ Yellow Duck Match

■ ■ Yellow Sort
Kate the Chameleon ■ Yellow Things

Social Emotional Development Physical Development

• Searches for missing or hidden objects (D.3.b.)
• Engages in positive relationships and interactions with adults (B.1.d.) • Develops awareness, understanding, and appreciation for their
• Develops increasing ability to identify own emotional responses and bodies and how they function (A.2.d.)
those of others (B.2.g.)
• Applies knowledge to new situations (D.2.c.)

■ Which Egg? ■ Banana Milk

■ Yellow Play Dough ■ Hide-and-Seek

■ Lemonade
Shakes ■ Walk a Yellow Line ■ Bellow Yellow
■ Yellow Feeling ■ Dance Yellow
■ Color Scopes

Outdoor Play Learning Centers

• Searches for missing or hidden objects (D.3.b.)
• Develops a knowledge of the natural environment ■ Fine Motor ■ Sensory Table
in the outdoor area of the program (D.1.g.) • Develops control of small muscles for • Uses senses to explore people, objects,
manipulation and exploration (A.3.b.) and the environment (D.1.b.)
■ Yellow Treasure
■ Creativity Station ■ Science
■ Yellow Search • Develops skill and confidence with • Develops an attitude of themselves as
processes of art, such as drawing and “explorers”—competent, confident
■ Yellow Shadows painting (D.5.a.) learners who ask questions and make
discoveries (D.1.e.)

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Red and Orange
er Week 2

Starting the Day

• Shows emotional connections and attachment to others while beginning to show independence (B.1.c.)
• Shows ability to cope with stress (B.3.a.)
• Develops emerging skills in caring and cooperation (B.4.f.)

Language Development Cognitive Development

• Shows interest in colors, shapes, patterns, and pictures (D.1.c.)
• Shows ability to acquire and process new information (D.3.c.)
• Shows interest in songs, rhymes, and stories (C.3.a.)
• Develops an interest in creating and using symbols and
• Understands that pictures can represent real things in the
pictures (C.3.h.)
environment (C.3.e.)
• Demonstrates receptive language skills (C.1.d.)
■ Photo Activity Cards ■ Little Red Apple
(32, 33)
■ I Like Red ■ Lucy Loves Orange
■ Color Tube and
■ Red Things Pompom Match
■ Kate the Chameleon
■ Color Books ■ Color
Concentration

Social Emotional Development Physical Development

• Develops confidence and ability to express emotional needs • Makes things happen and watches for results and repeats
without fear (B.1.f.) actions (D.1.b.)
• Shows confidence in increasing abilities (B.2.c.) • Develops familiarity with a variety of types of music, art, drama,
• Responds to and interacts with others (B.4.b.) and dance (D.5.d.)
• Coordinates eye and hand movements (A.3.c.)
■ Favorite Color ■ Orange Ball
■ Spill the Bows ■ Changing Red
No-Bake Cookies
■ Roses Are Red
■ ■
■ Color Scopes Little Red Caboose Fizzy Colors
■ Red Snack
■
■ Red Feeling Streamer Dancing

Outdoor Play Learning Centers

• Develops control of large muscles for movement,
navigation, and balance (A.2.a.)
■ Science ■ Construction
• Uses hands or feet to touch objects • Uses objects in new ways or in pretend
or people (A.3.a.) play (D.4.a.)

■ Red Search ] ■ Creativity Station ■ Fine Motor

• Develops an ability to be creative and
■ Red and Orange Shadows expressive through a variety of activities,
• Develops spatial understandings,
including an awareness of how
such as art (D.5.b.) two- and three-dimensional objects
■ Red Rover Variation can be fitted together (D.1.f.)

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Blue and Green
er Week 3

Starting the Day

• Develops emerging skills in caring and cooperation (B.4.f.)
• Uses hands or feet to touch objects or people (A.3.a.)
• Recognizes and responds to the feelings and emotions of others and begins to show concern (B.4.c.)

Language Development Cognitive Development

• Shows interest in colors, shapes, patterns, and pictures (D.1.c.)
• Shows ability to acquire and process new information (D.3.c.)
• Develops an expectation that words, books, and pictures can
• Develops an interest in creating and using symbols and
amuse, delight, comfort, inform and excite (C.3.d.)
pictures (C.3.g.)
• Hears and distinguishes the sounds and rhythms of language
(C.3.f.)
• Listens with interest to language of others (C.1.a.) ■ Photo Activity Cards ■ Shades of Color
(34,35)
■ I Like Blue ■ I Like Green ■ Color
■ Color Books Concentration
■ Kate the Chameleon ■ Little Boy Blue
■ The Ocean

Social Emotional Development Physical Development

• Makes things happen and watches for results and repeats actions (D.1.b.)
• Develops a playful interest in repetitive sounds and words (rhythm, • Develops confidence with moving in space, moving to rhythm, and
rhyme, alliteration) (C.3.b.) playing near and with others (A.2.e.)
• Establishes secure relationships with primary caregivers (B.1.a.) • Develops control of small muscles for manipulation and exploration
• Uses all of their senses to investigate their environment (D.1.b.) (A.3.b.)

■ Wave Machines ■ Shaved Ice

■ Frog Beanbags ■ Changing Blue

■ Blue Snack ■ Red, White, and Blue

■ Rainbow Dancers ■ Color Tube and
Pompom Match
■ Color Hokey Pokey
■ Color Scopes ■ Seeing Green ■ Fizzy Colors

Outdoor Play Learning Centers

• Develops increasing ability to change positions
and move body from place to place (A.2.b.)
■ Sensory ■ Science
• Develops the ability to make decisions • Develops small muscle control and
and choose own materials (D.2.d.) coordination (A.3.b.)
■ Baby Frog Lily Pad Hop

■ Blue and Green Shadows

■ Creativity Station ■ Fine Motor
• Develops skill and confidence with • Develops spatial understandings,
processes of art, such as drawing, collage,
■ Blue Bird, Blue Bird Fly Away and painting (D.5.a.)
including an awareness of how two- and
three-dimensional objects can be fitted
together (D.1.f.)

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Black and White
er Week 4

Starting the Day

• Responds to and interacts with others (B.4.b.)
• Develops increasing ability to identify own emotional responses and those of others (B.2.g.)
• Shows ability to cope with stress (B.3.a.)

Language Development Cognitive Development

• Understands and begins to use oral language for conversation
• Develops increasing knowledge in syntax, meaning, and and communication (C.2.c.)a
vocabulary (C.1.f.) • Develops an interest in creating and using symbols and pictures (C.3.g.)
• Develops language skills in structured language contexts, such as • Uses senses to explore people, objects, and the environment (D.1.b.)
through books and finger plays (C.2.d.)
• Develops an expectation that words, books, and pictures can
amuse, delight, comfort, inform and excite (C.3.d.)
■ Photo Activity Cards ■ Gak
(36, 37, 68)
■ Black and White ■ Ms. Bumblebee
■ Black and White
Gathers Nectar
■ Shaving Cream Animals
■ Humpty Dumpty’s
■ Color Books ■ Black as Night
New Ears

Physical Development
Social Emotional Development • Responds to nonverbal and verbal communication of others (C.1.b.)
• Develops control of large muscles for movement, navigation, and
• Establishes secure relationships with primary caregivers (B.1.a.) balance (A.2.a.)
• Shows confidence in increasing abilities (B.2.c.) • Coordinates eye and hand movements (A.3.c.)

■ Shadow Dancing ■ Catch the Spotlight

■ Sheet Tent ■ Puff Paint
■ Frog Beanbags ■ Say
■ Black Sack ■ I Like Black
■ White Chalk, ■ Color Tube and
Black Board Pompom Match

Outdoor Play Learning Centers

• Develops control of large muscles for movement,
navigation, and balance (A.2.a.) ■ Fine Motor ■ Pretend and Learn
• Develops control of small muscles for • Uses imitation in pretend play to express
manipulation and exploration (A.3.b.) creativity and imagination (D.4.b.)
■ Cloud Watch
■ Creativity Station ■ Science
■ White Parachute Play • Develops skill and confidence with
processes of art, such as drawing, collage
• Makes things happen and watches for
results and repeats actions (D.1.b.)
■ Shadow Chase
and painting (D.5.a.)

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