R is for Rainbow

I started preschool where our joy-school left off. R. R is for Rainbows.

Letter of the day: R

Number of the day: 7

Purpose of this lesson: to teach how rainbows are formed and the colors that are in the rainbow.

The kids sit on placemats I found at Walmart. Sometimes we start with a welcome song like; "hello, name", or "hi, hello, and how are you?" Then we jump right into talking about the letter of the day. I use the letter on the board and they are supposed to find the same letter on their letter page. We then sing the alphabet song and shout the letter of the day when we get to it. For the number of the day, I usually just draw something that the kiddos have to count.

 

For this lesson I started with this song found on youtube. . .

 

We reviewed the colors of the rainbow. We then watched this youtube video about how a rainbow is formed. . . 

 

We did a color sort with fruit loops with pages that look like this. . .  

 After they sorted colors, they made rainbows by gluing the fruit loops on this printable.

 The second day we did preschool. We reviewed everything we learned the first day. And then we watched this video of Earnest Borgnine reading "The Rainbow Fish." You could just check this book out and read it too.

After the video/reading the story. We used watercolors and painted this printable of the rainbow fish.

 

After naptime we went out side to go on a "color hunt". Where we walked around and checked off anytime we found the color on the paper.

 

Peyton is obsessed with Rainbows now. Every morning our kitchen window creates a window on our kitchen floor. He is sure to tell me every time he sees it. 

Here are some of his pieces he did. . .

 

I've done a lesson C is for Color too, and I've gotten some fun ideas for that as well. 

The first is the clean way to finger paint. All you need is white cardstock, a plastic bag and red, blue, and yellow globs of paint. The kids can mix colors without the mess.
The second is an activity from the brown bear book. the printable can be found here. 

Enjoy teaching your kids about colors and Rainbows, I hope they have as much fun as my kids had!