SHAPES AND COLORSPeter and Ann are just like you, first graders with a lot of questions on their mind... They want to learn more about the shapes and colors of the world they live in, and they need your help to figure it out. Once, Peter and Ann were sitting by the porch of their house. It was 10pm and they had this conversation that probably you might have had with some of your friends:
Peter: WOW!!!! Look at that!!!!!
Ann: What??? What are you talking about?
Peter: Look, up there, in the sky...
Ann: Yeah... what??? I just see the moon...it is nice!
Peter: I like it, but do you know what kind of shape is it?
Ann: mmm, let me think... shape? what do you mean?
Peter: Well, its form..what does it look like?
Ann: I think it has the "shape" of a.... CD!
Peter: A CD??? Like the one from The Lion King?
Ann: Yeah...
Peter: Well, I don't know, I think that it should have a name, you know everything has names.. sometimes it makes me crazy!
Ann: That is true... remember that our mom said that the moon was "wite"?
Peter: Yeah..you are right... I do not remember very well the name, but I think that a lot of things have different "colors" as they call them...
Ann: I think we should ask our teacher about these... I want to learn!
Lesson #1
Shapes * Circle: * Triangle: * Rectangle: * Square:
Activity:
Find a partner in your class. Your friend and you should look carefully at all the objects in the classroom. Which objects can you relate to the shapes that you have just learned? Look carefully at the blackboard... what shape does it have? Write your thoughts on a piece of paper. Did you look at your books? What about your desks? Look at the different objects and after writing your thoughts share them with your classmates. Discuss with your class, and come up with a conclusion.
Colors:
Peter and Ann are again thinking about the different colors that exist in the world. The primary colors are:
RED
YELLOW
BLUEMixing Colors:
1. Red + Blue = Brown
2. Red + Yellow = Orange
3. Yellow + Blue = GreenScramble Game:
1.dreyellowbrown greenblueorange
2. leubredyellowbrown greenblueorange
3.ngeraoredyellowbrown greenblueorange
4.welolyredyellowbrown greenblueorange
5. nobwrredyellowbrown greenblueorange
6.neregredyellowbrown greenblueorange
Do you think you got it all the answers correct?
1. red 2. blue 3. orange 4. yellow 5. brown 6. green
Activity:
Our world has a lot of colors. What does Christmas remind you of? What about Halloween? Think about the holidays that you celebrate with your family.... can you relate them to different colors?
Last updated: 10/13/99
