Colors Family Storytime

This is a theme that is easy to use when I have little planning time because there are so many options out there! Including some great songs. The books I ended up choosing this time for Colors were:

• Every Color Soup by Jorey Hurley
• Dog's Colorful Day by Emma Dodd
• and Mouse Paint by Ellen Stoll Walsh

My Outline:

• Song: Shake Your Sillies Out by Raffi
• Literacy Tip Explain: Concepts is a term that is used to speak of things that we believe to be fundamental to our children's understanding and learning. This includes things like counting, days of the week, emotions, and colors. Most of these can fit into the category of background knowledge and are important for understanding and interacting with the world.
• Letter Activity: I do this every storytime. I pick two letters to focus on usually having to do with the theme, this weeks was C and P. I have the letter printed BIG on a popsicle stick (one upper case and one lower case). We talk about the name of the letter, the sound it makes, what the upper case and lower case look like, I ask for examples for words that start with the letter and then we sing a remixed version of Where is Thumbkin that goes like this:

Where is letter C (put both pictures behind back)

Where is letter C

Here I am (bring out upper case letter)

Here I am (bring out lower case letter)

How are you today dear

Very well I thank you

Run away (put upper case behind back) 

Run away (put lower case behind back)

• Read book one: Every Color Soup
• Song: Who's Wearing Yellow  by Sarah Barchas
• Rhyme: Colors Up in the Rainbow (Everything Preschool)

Red and orange, green and blue,
shiny yellow, purple too!
These are the colors that we know,
way up high in the great rainbow.
Red and orange, green and blue,
shiny yellow, purple too!

• Literacy Tip Example -Colors are fun for kids to learn because they are everywhere and we can easily make them to relate to our children. Our next book is a cute story about a dog who gains colorful spots.
• Read book two: Dog's Colorful Day
• Puppet Rhyme: BaaBaa Black/White Sheep

Baa, baa, black sheep, have you any wool?

Yes sir, yes sir, three bags full!

One for the master, one for the dame,

And one for the little boy who lives down the lane

Baa, baa, black sheep, have you any wool?

Yes sir, yes sir, three bags full.

Baa, baa, white sheep, have you any wool?

Yes sir, yes sir, three needles full.

One to mend a jumper, one to mend a frock,

and one for the little girl, with holes in her sock.

Baa, baa, white sheep, have you any wool?

yes sir, yes sir, three needles full.

• Transition Song: Quiet Hands 

My hands upon my head I'll place.
Upon my shoulders, on my face,
At my waist and by my side,
Then behind me they will hide.
Then I'll raise them way up high,
And let my fingers fly, fly, fly,
Then clap, clap, clap them--
One - Two -Three!
Now see how quiet they can be.

• Read book three: Mouse Paint (I was fortunate enough to have a kit to use with this book which was a lot of fun!) 
• Literacy Tip Empowerment: I want to encourage you this week to talk about different colors with your kids. Play I spy or quiz them on what  colors make when they get mixed. So much fun can be had with colors! 
• Closing Song: Bean Bag Rock by Georgiana Liccione Stewart
• Craft: Colored Noodles on Lett C paper