Colors Story Time -- Yellow: March 24-25, 2014

Books:
The Happy Day by Ruth Krauss *
Hello, Day! by Anita Lobel *
In My New Yellow Shirt by Eileen Spinelli *
This Is the Sunflower by Lola M. Schaefer *

Craft: Paper Plate Sunflower
Children started by coloring the center of a small paper plate as the sunflower center.  Then strips of yellow paper were glued around the edge of the plate for the petals.  The petals were looped with each end of the yellow paper glued on opposites sides of the plate.

Literacy Extensions:
-- See how many things your child can come up with that are the color yellow.
-- Discuss how a plate grows and then plant a seed with your child.  Check on it often to see how long it takes to come up. (i.e. This Is the Sunflower)

Colors Story Time -- Green: March 17-18, 2014

Books:
The Croaky Poky by Ethan Long *
A Girl and Her Gator by Sean Bryan
Good Luck Bear by Greg Foley *
Grandpa Green by Lane Smith
Green by Laura Vaccaro Seeger
Little Pea by Amy Krouse Rosenthal *
Snip Snap! What's That? by Mara Bergman
Ten Lucky Leprechauns by Kathryn Heling *

Craft: Paper Plate Leprechaun
Children colored a face onto a small paper plate and a leprechaun hat before gluing the hat and red strips of paper to the plate as whiskers. 

Literacy Extensions:
- See how many green foods your child can list.  Discuss why they do or do not like them. (i,e.. Little Pea)
- Practice rhyming with your child.  Have them try to come up with several words that rhyme with "green".

Colors Story Time -- Blue, Week 2: March 10-11, 2014

Books:
The Big Blue Spot by Peter Holwitz *
Blueberry Mouse by Alice Low *
The Bog Baby by Jeanne Willis
I'm the Best Artist in the Ocean by Kevin Sherry *
In a Blue Room by Jim Averbeck

Craft: Blue Whale
Children glued blue tissue paper to a cardstock cutout of a whale.

Literacy Extensions:
- While reading the books, see how many "B"s your child can point out in the text.
- Look at different art styles and ways of drawing the same object (i.e. I'm the Best Artist in the Ocean)

Colors Story Time -- Blue: March 4, 2014

Books:
Blue Chicken by Debrorah Freedman
Chicken Chuck by Bill Martin, Jr. *
Dog Blue by Polly Dunbar *
Little Blue Truck by Alice Schertle *

Craft: Feather Headband
We made feather handbands so we could be like Chicken Chuck.  Children colored a paper feather that was then glued to narrows strips of paper into a headband.  A large blue sequin was glued to the headband as the blue seed.

Literacy Extensions:
- See how many things your child can list that are the color blue.
- Go over animal sounds (i.e. Little Blue Truck)