Bear Sees Colors - Day Two

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Today is day two of "Bear Sees Colors".  We are concentrating on the colors and sorting.  We started out by reading the book again.

As we read the book, I had the children point to things that were that colour on the page.

For my students using communication boards, I had them tell me what color Bear sees.

We made a large class chart by sorting the pictures into groups.

We then made individual class books.

Once their books were finished, I had them read each page.

To finish their books I had them color in Bear.  The book was great for assessing their color knowledge.

Don't forget to grab the book.  You are going to need it for these activities.

Science Saturday - Fizzy colours

Since we have been talking about colours this week, I thought this fizzy colours experiment was perfect.

You will need:

vinegar

baking soda

food colouring

an eye dropper or syringe

flat dish

cups

Add vinegar to the cups and add a few drops of food colouring to each one.

Put a layer of baking soda on a flat dish.

Use the syringe or eye dropper to pick up some of the colour and drop it on the baking soda.

See what happens.

Experiment with different colours.

The children wanted to do it again and again.

Work Station Wednesday - Dog's Colourful Day

It's work station Wednesday and I thought I would highlight one of my favourite books for the beginning of the year.

"Dog's Colorful Day" by Emma Dodd.

Now this dog goes about his day, getting a new spot on his body for every item he runs into.  It's perfect for working on colours and numbers.

When I do this book, I read it to the children every day and each day we work on a different skill.

I believe that it's very important to work on sentence structure with my non-verbal students as well as my verbal students.

This activity is perfect for that.  As we read each page, I have the children make the sentence "Now Dog has _____ spots.", changing the number each time.  I think it's important for the children to move the words to form the sentence, so that they realize that sentences are made up of individual words.

I love this activity.  As we read the story, I have the children put the correct coloured spot on the dog and put the number of spots in the box.

This activity also works on forming sentences.  We talk about what item is on dog.

As we move through the week, the sentences become more complex.  By now, we've read the book quite a few times and we talk about the object and the colour.

Science Saturday - Magic Milk

For science today I decided to do Magic Milk.

This is another simple experiment with items you probably have around the house.

You are going to need some milk and a cookie sheet.

Some food colouring, some dish soap and a spoon or eye dropper. 

Pour milk into the cookie sheet until the bottom is covered.

We then talked about what colour we wanted to add to the pan.

The kids picked green and red.

Place a few drops of food colouring into the milk.

Drop a drop of dish soap into the middle of a drop of food colouring, and watch what happens.

The children were very excited to see what happened and asked to do it "again".