Robert Munsch has always been one of our favourite authors to read and to listen to. His newest book, “Seeing Red” was read to the afternoon group of children during activity time. It was a funny story about a boy getting tricked into eating all kinds of food to help turn his hair red like his friend. The kids got a kick out of all the different types of food that was suggested.
After the story, the children were broken up into teams, to draw their ideas of food items based on the colour of marker that they had.
They came up with such great ideas!
The activity combined several curriculum areas –
- They worked together as a team to come up with ideas
- Small Motor skills as they used a marker to draw pictures of the food
- Colour recognition – they associated the colour of the marker with same coloured food
- Creativity – They came up with their own ideas, and transferred the pictures from their imaginations in their minds to paper.
After they finished drawing in their separate groups, the children were called back and their answers were shown and read out loud. They were quite surprised at some of the suggestions – like bubble gum ice cream for the colour blue! Must be some one’s favourite.
Please take a look at our bulletin board in the Enchanted Forest room for our display of “Seeing Red”!
