Exploring Colors and Numbers

We have continued to be explorers this month is preschool, and I have been taking the opportunity to introduce basic topics that we will expand upon as the year goes by. This gives me the chance to get a better idea of the student's interests, needs, and abilities in those areas so I know where to take things in the future. Last week we spent some time thinking about colors.

We read Bear Sees Colors, and passed around different colored bears as we read the story. Then we looked around the classroom to see if we could find the same colors as Bear.

We explored using colors in art and in the sensory table with a little experiment using baking soda and colored vinegar.

We also explored the different shades of skin colors that people can have.

We read another Bear book called Bear Counts, along with starting our Math Bags routine. So we added a counting element to the colored bear table we had set up. For this simple game you just roll the colored dice and add a bear (or bears) to the grid. I let the students interpret how to add the bears, which gave me a chance to observe some of their number sense and counting skills.