Dog's Colorful Day: Part One

Days With Dog

Word Fun

Our February unit based on the fun book, Dog's Colorful Day always has so much packed into it that I found it was hard this year to get it all into one post.  So I've decided to break it apart into two parts.  This one will focus on some of the literature activities that we did.  The next one will focus on math.

After reading the story, it was only natural to work with color words.  Well...my munchkins have been reading their color words since before Christmas, so that was hardly a challenge.  In order to step things up a notch, we decided it was time to start learning to spell them!  Dr. Jean's fun song, The Color Train, helped tremendously.  When you put anything to music, it is so much easier for munchkins to remember!

We made a little color word game, coloring colored cards and matching color words.  We used it as a matching game, but also as a self-checking game of spelling. 

The munchkins had fun playing it together and quizzing each other on how to spell each word.

We had a fun pocket chart poem about some colorful dogs, as well.  Many of the munchkins enjoyed reading it together during their free time...

The favorite part? 

The very last line had some fun nonsense words that were very fun to say!

We decided to create our own version of the dog in Emma Dodd's book, but we changed him up a just a bit.  We decided to give him spots of only one color.  We had to determine how many spots to give him as well. 

We had blue spotted dogs...

And yellow spotted dogs...

And gray spotted dogs...with only a couple of spots at that!

The munchkins then had to construct a sentence to go with their dogs.  The sentence could say anything they wanted, as long as it included a number word and a color word. 

What fantastic sentences we had when it was complete.  Many of the munchkins wrote questions:

Do you see my two red spots?

Do you like my five pink spots?

And others had statements:

This dog is white with three blue spots.

Some munchkins even combined two sentences:

It was a great way to practice all the words we are working so hard on lately.

And if that wasn't enough, to end our unit the munchkins each re-wrote the Dog's Colorful Day story in their own words, using what they know about beginning, middle and end.  

Wow!  I'd say that deserves a Dog's Colorful Day snack!

Yum...

Yes, those are Dog's spots (M & M's) on his white fur (vanilla pudding).

And it was a fun lesson in color mixing. 

What color do you get when you mix them all together?

Until next time...

Giggles,

Mrs. D.