Rainbows and Adjectives!

This week we learned about rainbows in first grade.  We talked about how rainbows form and looked at pictures of them on the computer.  Next, I taught the kids the colors of the rainbow.  To help us remember the colors, we created Mr. Roy G Biv to help us out! Thanks to Made for First Grade for the printable name tags!

The second rainbow activity I saw online somewhere in the past.  Maybe it was on Pinterest?  I started by reading the book EyeLike Colors to the children.  This book goes into many many different colors, including translucent and iridescent. To keep our activity focused, I chose to read only the colors pertaining to our rainbow.  After I read the book, I had the children color the red arch on their rainbow and write "Red reminds me of _________."  Then we went on to Orange and the rest of the colors.  It took us a three day span to finish this project and it was SO worth it!  I love what the children came up with.  One of my students said, "Red reminds me of my mom's world famous red cookies.  Orange reminds me of my mom's world famous orange brownies.  Green reminds me of my mom's world famous salad!"  Hehehe... I bet her mom will be so proud when she reads it!

On to a different topic, this week my kiddos also were introduced to adjectives in our Language Arts program.  One of my problems with the Language Arts program we use, is that they introduce a concept for about 2 seconds and then they might not talk about it again for months.  I think it is confusing to briefly introduce students to many small topics, but don't follow through to allow them practice with the concept.  SO as with nouns, I created some writing activities with adjectives and then for the "test" I had the students make "Awesome Adjectives that Describe Me."  I saw this on First Grade Lyons Den and loved the idea.  I noticed after my students did their "test"  that I mis-spelled adjectives :-(  (I'll have to send an apology home to my classroom parents before I send that project home! OOPS)

Possessive nouns next week!  Happy Teaching!