Weekly Theme  (Start Monday, continue with the theme all week)

This week's theme is RAINBOWS.  ~Rainbow Pictures/Printouts~

The vocabulary word is prism - a prism can be made out of glass or other clear material in a solid, sometimes triangular, shape.  When light passes through the prism it separates into the different colors of the spectrum/rainbow.

Books to read aloud that support the theme:

The Rainbow Fish by Marcus Pfister
What Makes a Rainbow? (Pop-Up) by Betty Ann Schwartz
A Rainbow of my Own by Don Freeman
All the Colors of the Rainbow by Allan Fowler
Rain by Robert Kalan
Huff and Puff's Hawaiian Rainbow by Jean Warren
Noah's Ark by Linda Hayward
Noah's Ark retold by Heather Amery (Usborne Bible Tales)
Planting a Rainbow by Lois Ehlert
Hawaii is a Rainbow by Stephanie Feeney

Poems that support the theme:

Rainbow Dream
by Katrina Lybbert

Red, orange, yellow, green,
Blue, indigo, violet dream;
A rainbow brightens the rainy sky,
With magical colors arching high.

Red, orange, yellow, green,
Blue, indigo, violet dream;
I'll look around each corner and bend,
Till someday I find the rainbow's end.

Songs that support the theme:

Somewhere Over the Rainbow
The Rainbow Connection

Songs on the Kididdle's Site:

The Rainbow
Pretty Rainbow
Rainbow Song

Gross Motor Skills Activity:  (Monday)

Prism jump!  Use a prism to shine colors into your room and on the wall.  Let your child jump to catch the colorful light.

Fine Motor Skills Activity:  (Friday)

Draw a rainbow!  On a blank sheet of paper help your child draw semi-circular lines, one on top of the other, to create a rainbow.  This does not have to be perfect.  Enjoy the color!

Or try some Rainbow Theme Crafts

Shape/Color  (Tuesday)

This week you will teach the color red.

• Introduce the color by coloring in the octagon (previous week's shape) on your learning poster with a red crayon.
• Put on a red article of clothing.
• Point out objects around your home of the color red.
• Add the color to a meal by choosing a red food, or using a plate, cup, or utensil of the color red.
• Let your child color in a coloring book or on a printout using a red crayon.

The letter this week is the letter F.

• Give your child a printout of the (capital) letter F to color.  ~Letter Printouts~
• Teach your child to trace the shape of the letter F using her finger.  You can trace in pudding, finger paint, a shallow tray (cookie sheet) filled with rice or beans, etc.
• Point out the letter F in signs, cereal boxes, etc.
• Post the letter F on your learning poster.

The number this week is the number 6.

• Show your child 6 objects to count, or eat 6 crackers, 6 cheerios, etc.
• Show your child the written symbol (numeral) for 6 and put on your learning poster.
• Add 6 stickers to your counting book.
• Show your matching index cards for the number 6 to your child.
• Draw 6 octagons on a piece of paper and count them with your child.
• Walk around your home counting 6 of many different objects.

The nursery rhyme this week is Humpty Dumpty.  Recite often!

Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall,
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall;
All the King's horses and all the King's men,
Couldn't put Humpty together again.