Playgroup - Theme 4

Theme- Colors

Words in focus:
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red

yellow

green

blue

pink

brown

black

white

orange

purple


Numbers:
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31-40 (Quantitative approach using dot cards)


Picture cards:
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red

yellow

green

blue

pink

brown

black

white

orange

purple


Learning points:
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• Awareness about difference between light and darkness
• Knowledge about primary and secondary colors
• Identification of each color
• Exploration of different objects of different colors
• Exploration of colors in the garden/ nature and in the food items
• Experiential learning of how each secondary colors form from primary colors
• Segregating a particular colored objects from a group of various colored
objects
• Awareness of the importance of colors in our life

Physical activities:
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Running behind a ball

jumping on left and right leg

hopping

walking forwards and backwards

kicking the ball with left and right leg

crawling

Transferring grains from one bowl to another bowl

playing with jigsaw puzzles (explain the colors of the toys)

hummer and peg

throwing balls in the basket

hanging from the rod

Spinning

rolling

summersault

walk on a line

balancing beam

Prayers of the month:
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Starting prayer: Gayatri Mantra

Om bhoor bhuwah swaha,
Tat savitur varenyam
Bhargo devasaya dheemahi
Dhiyo yo naha prachodayat

Closing Prayer: Devi prayer

Sarva Mangala Mangalye
Shive Sarvartha Sadhike
Sharanye Triyambike Gauri
Narayani Namostute

Food Prayer:
sah-na bhavatu, sah-nau bhunaktu;
sah viryam karvavahe,
tejasvinav adhitam-astu
maa vidhvishawahe
Om shanti shanti shanti

Rhymes:
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Good morning song:

Good morning, to you and to you
Good morning, to you and to you
Hello everyone
Hello everyone
Good morning to you and to you
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Good bye song:
Good –bye my friends
Good –bye my friends
Good –bye my friends
We’ll all meet again tomorrow!
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Hand wash song:
Wash, wash, wash, wash your hands,
After work and play
Scrub and rinse and shake and dry
And wash those germs away!
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Clean up Song (Tune: The Farmer in the Dell)

Let’s clean up today!
Let’s clean up today!
We’ve had our fun,
Our play is done,
So, let’s clean up today!
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Red, red, red
Tomatoes are red
Orange, orange, orange
Carrots are orange
Green, green, green
Trees are green
Blue, blue, blue
Sky is blue
Yellow, yellow, yellow
Bananas are yellow
Purple, purple, purple
Brinjals are purple
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Red, yellow, blue are the primary colors.
Purple, orange, green are the secondary colors.
Red, yellow, blue are the primary colors.
Purple, orange, green are secondary.
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Red like an apple
Yellow like the sun
Blue like a swimming pool is so much fun
The primary colors, they are red, yellow, blue
And when I sing a song about them
I get the red and yellow and blues
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You take the primary colors
Which you know are red, yellow, blue
To get the secondary colors
Here’s all you have to do

Red and yellow make orange (CHA CHA CHA)
Blue and yellow make green (CHA CHA CHA)
Red and blue make purple (CHA CHA CHA)
I think you know what I mean (CHA CHA CHA)

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Carrot carrot carrot, what color are you?
Sometimes red, sometimes orange
That’s the color of me

Carrot carrot carrot, what shape are you?
Conical conical, that’s the shape of me

Carrot carrot carrot, where do I find you?
Under the ground, under the ground
Thats the place of me

Should I eat you or should I drink you, tell me what to do?
Tell me what to do, please tell me what to do?

Whether you eat me or drink me, it will make you strong
Strong strong strong strong strong

I am a very healthy vegetable, I have got lots of prana

Have me every meal and strike a splendid deal

When you eat me hear my sound ……..
When you drink me fell my sweetness……….
Children children children, listen to what I say
Have me everyday and keep the doctor away
Keep the doctor away, keep the doctor away, keep the doctor away--------------------

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Physical activities:
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Frog Jumping

Horse Running(with sound)

Crawling

threading

transferring grains from one Jar to other

jig-saw puzzles

floor cleaning

hanging with a rod

hammer and peg

rolling

spinning

walking in a line

balancing beam

somersaults