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During "Color Discovery" students will:

Learn to identify and practice writing names of common colors
Explore websites to practice identifying and becoming familiar with colors
Create pictures in Kid Pix to demonstrate that they can identify and match correct color names

Select and read a story about color out loud. There are some suggested titles below.
Teach students the song(s) about color.
Explain to the students that each time they come to work on the computers, you will have a color floppy for them to see. When they are working on the computer, they are to click on the floppy you have on display.

Example: The first activity has a blue floppy disk so you will have a picture of this symbol on display so the students know which activity you want them to do that day.

Over time, have students do each of the on-line activities designated by the different colored floppy disks on the student page. The activities are progressive but use your discretion as to your students' abilities.
Have the students use just the pencil and typewriter tools in Kid Pix to create a picture with a partner. Partner groups must type in the name of at least 3 colors they have used in their picture.

Conclusion/Assessment:

Give students several colors of yarn. Ask them to glue the yarn onto a piece of paper and write the name of the color below the yarn. Still have the word board up where they can see the words but replace the words written in that color's ink with the words written in black ink.

Resources:

Books About Color
"The Crayon Box that Talked", by Shane DeRolf	"Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What do you see?", by Bill Martin, Jr.
"Planting A Rainbow", by, Lois Ehlert	"Colors Everywhere", by Tana Hoban
"Lunch", by Denise Fleming	"Mouse Paint", by Ellen Stoll Walsh
"Red Day Green Day", by Edith Kunhardt	"Colors", by George Siede and Donna Preis
"Purple, Green and Yellow", by Robert Munsch	"The Color Factory", by John Denton
"A Rainbow of My Own", by Don Freeman	"Adventures With Colors", by Seymour Reit
"The Crayon Counting Book", by Munoz & Palotta	"The M & M's Counting Book", by Barb McGrath
"The Colors of My Day", by Kimberlee Graves	"Little Blue and Little Yellow", by Leo Lionni
"Is it Red? Yellow? Blue?", by Tana Hoban	"Green Eggs and Ham", by Dr. Seuss
"Harold and the Purple Crayon", by Crockett Johnson	"A Picture for Harold's Room", by Crockett Johnson
"Roses are Red, Are Violets Blue?", by Alice and Martin Provensen	"The Big Orange Splot", by Daniel Pinkwater
"All About Color", by Irene Yates	"All the Colors of the Rainbow", by Sean Allan Salmi

Websites Linked from Colored Disks on Student Page:

(websites come and go - remember to check links before using)

http://www.literacycenter.net/parents_teacher/color_center.htm# (Purple Floppy)

http://www.meddybemps.com/deepblue/matchfishcolors.html (Green Floppy)

http://www.surfnetkids.com/games/colors-c.htm (Yellow Floppy)

http://www.jayzeebear.com/color/mixing/ (Black Floppy)

http://www.liveandlearn.com/cgame/colors.html#ora1 (Red Floppy)

http://imet.csus.edu/imet2/bowmany/webquest/color/color_exploration.htm (Blue Floppy)

Additional/Alternate Websites on Color:
http://www.coloring.com/	http://www.meddybemps.com/9.500.html
http://kayleigh.tierranet.com/color.htm	http://www.hummingbirded.com/abc_colors.html
http://edtech.kennesaw.edu/web/colors.html	http://members.aol.com/MGoudie/TeachingColors.html
http://www.theodoretugboat.com/start/	http://www.city.waltham.ma.us/fitch/kindergarten_studies_colors.htm
http://www.mathsurf.com/k/ch3/tips.html	http://www.alaskasmallbusiness.com/kindergarten/colors.html
http://www.funbrain.com/match/index.html	http://www.meddybemps.com/crocodiles/index.html

Bulletin Boards:

Create a bulletin board for a color "word board". Do a circle time introduction of each color, showing the students and item (i.e. a red apple) and ask them what color it is. Discuss the difference between the object (an apple) and the color (red). Show them the word "red" written in red ink and place this word on your color word board. Continue introducing all the colors of the project until you have a "word board" available for students to refer to.
- For the assessment portion of this lesson, replace the colors written in that color ink with color names written in black ink.

To track which students have learned which colors, make a bulletin board with a construction paper "sugar cone" for each student. When students have mastered identifying a color, place a construction paper circle "ice cream scoop" in the color they can now identify.