(The book has red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple included.)
This book is a great beginning of the year writing
activity. Each day in Writer’s
Workshop we complete a mini lesson on brainstorming. As a class, we think of all the different items that are the
color of the page we are working on.
Ex. Red: apples, fire truck, barn, etc. The students then go back to their seats and pick one item
to “write” about. Because it is
the beginning of Kindergarten, we are mostly looking for detailed pictures, but
words are welcome! We then walk
around and scribe for the students. We ask them to come up with the beginning
letter of the item they are drawing to assess their letter sounds
recognition.
At the end of the color book, we read the story “The Color
of Us” by Karen Katz. We discuss
how we may all look different on the outside, but we all are good people on the
inside. We give the kids multi
cultural crayons so that they can pick out their own skin color. This is fun, because there are so many
shades that the students who think they are “white” or “black” see that there
are many shades within those colors.
They then draw a detailed picture of themselves. This lesson is really a great way for
students to see that we all come from different backgrounds but that we all can
get along and work together.
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