Seasons and Warm/Cool Colors Resources

For the seasons introduction I found a video on teachertube showing the various seasons to start our discussion. We divided a paper into four sections and made our own pictures for what we thought of for each season. We then rolled and taped it into a cylinder to show the circular nature of the seasons.

We watched this youtube video showing the “why” of seasons. We used our globe and flashlight to mimic what the video showed.

We talked specifically about summer and the sun and made summer artwork pictures. For each season I decided to use Vivaldi’s Four Seasons and there are so many youtube videos for those I feel silly linking any of them. I do link one in this past week’s plans though.

The study of Seasons fit well with warm and cool colors. I did the art study for the works mentioned here in the Kindergarten September Art. The art study landscapes are set in spring and winter. It was easy to find these paintings full page online.

For the warm and cool colors we were also studying the bible story of Abraham and Isaac this week so I had them stamp stars—one page in cool colored stars and one in warm colors. The link above has them using paints in warm or cool to make a handprint wreath. My kids would have loved that but, well, I wasn’t up for the mess of hands in paint this week! I found this video tutorial with warm and cool colors explained that I showed. Preview first to make sure you’re ok with it though because there is one picture that might not be ok for some.

I'll try to be more detailed in future posts if I can.

Lesson Plans for Art, Music, Social Studies, Literature

I've been busy planing and found a variety of other neat things. I hope I can remember all of them to post.

I found a school that has lesson plans that support the Core Knowledge Curriculum. I really liked the K plans. I wasn't as impressed with the first grade though and haven't looked beyond that. However, the K and 1st grade art and music plans both look terrific. I suspect the same person or persons worked on those areas in all the grades. I plan to use them for my art and music for our first grade curriculum.
Lesson Plans

Fantastic addition to phonogram based programs!

Fun With Phonograms is so neat!

It would make an excellent addition to any phonogram based program such as Orton-Gillingham, Spalding, Riggs, etc.

Their Phonogram Circus program goes through the consonants and vowel alphabet letter phonograms. Phonogram Zoo does the rest of the phonograms including the complex ones! It covers all the sounds each phonogram makes (so the three A sounds, two C sounds, two ow sounds, etc.).

There is a CD with a story and song for each phonogram. The book for each set has a full color illustration for each phonogram story. Samples are on the page I linked.

Their Spelling Town DVD sets all the Spalding/Riggs/OG spelling rules to music and video! This is a really fun and memorable way to present the spelling rules. You can see a sample of this on the website as well. I think this would be fantastic to add to Spalding, Riggs, O-G or any other program that requires learning the spelling rules. It’s neat and I encourage you to check out the samples if you are starting a phonogram based reading and spelling program