1.)Introduce the children to the color gold. Brainstorm things that are gold on a chart and display the chart in the room.
2.)Using the book The Golden Egg, do a picture walk with the children through the story and have the children predict what they think the story will be about by looking at the pictures. Write their predictions on a piece of chart paper.
3.)Read the story The Golden Egg by A.J. Wood to the children. Children will make predictions about what will happen next in the story after reading a few paragraphs or pages. After the teacher and the class have finished reading The Golden Egg, the class will return to the predictions chart to see if their predictions about the story were correct or incorrect. The students will brainstorm places they might have hidden the golden egg.
4.)With the children's input, on chart paper draw the colored eggs in the sequence they were found in the story. Using the chart, have the children practice retelling the story. Introduce the children to the use of a digital camera. Show the children how to take a picture, let them look at it right away, then erase it. Take pictures of the children, so they can see how the camera works.
5.)Introduce the concept of a scavenger hunt, then explain they will be going on a scavenger hunt for colored eggs that have been hidden throughout the school. Children will go as a class to search for a hidden egg. Each time a colored egg is discovered, the children return to the classroom for a new color word and clue to the next location to search for the egg. See attachment for egg clues. Using the digital camera, take pictures of the children participating in the scavenger hunt. After the scavenger hunt is over, load the pictures on the computer using imaging software, so the children can view themselves on their scavenger hunt.
6.)At the end of the scavenger hunt, the children will return to the classroom and search for hidden chocolate eggs, that have been wrapped in gold similar to the ending of the story, The Golden Egg.
7.)Set up the Kid Pix software on the computer for practice of typing and illustrating color words.
8.)Place a paper keyboard in front of each student in the class. Review the basic parts of computer: keyboard, monitor and printer and practice proper body position in regard to the keyboard. Position hands in left and right alignment on keyboard paper. Teacher uses an overhead keyboard to model typing the color words. (Start with color word "red" because it is a left hand word and then "pink" because it is a right hand word.) After they have practiced typing the color word, have the students color each spelled letter on their keyboards with the correct color crayon. Then proceed to the next sheet repeating the typing of the color word and then coloring each letter of the color word with the color crayon until they have reached the seventh sheet which will be "gold". After typing pink and coloring p-i-n-k, they will be typing the color words with both hands.
( Click here for the paper keyboard) Click on the image to download your own keyboard. Prints out on a 8-1/2" X 14" sheet of paper.
9.)Children integrate the book The Golden Egg by playing the outdoor game "The Golden Egg" adapted from the game "Sharks and Minnows". Teacher selects someone to be "The Golden Egg" (IT) and the rest of the children pick a color and silently whisper their selection to the teacher. Children are in a horizontal line facing "The Golden Egg." "The Golden Egg" (IT) proceeds to call out one color at a time. If a child's color is called, the child runs to a designated "safe spot." If tagged, the child becomes "The Golden Egg."
10.)For an extension of the lesson, let children experiment with creating new colors by mixing primary colors and dying hard-boiled eggs. Discuss whether there is a way to make silver or gold eggs as in the book The Golden Egg.
11.)Another extension to this lesson would be to have the students visit Fisher Price's interactive online coloring and games. ( Fisher Price) Interactive web site designed for recognizing colors
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