- change
- color
- lighter
- mix
- paint
- shade
MA Standards:
Speaking and Listening/SL.PK.MA.2: Recall information for short periods of time and retell, act out, or represent information from a text read aloud, a recording, or a video (e.g., watch a video about birds and their habitats and make drawings or constructions of birds and their nests).
Head Start Outcomes:
Language Development/Receptive Language: Attends to language during conversations, songs, stories, or other learning experiences.
Language Development/Expressive Language: Uses language to express ideas and needs.
PreK Learning Guidelines:
English Language Arts/Language 2: Participate actively in discussions, listen to the ideas of others, and ask and answer relevant questions.
Watch Together: “A Peep of a Different Color” #2 (PEEP show)
STEM Key Concepts: There are many different colors; Two or more colors can be combined to make a new color
ELA Focus Skills: Active Viewing, Recall and Retell, Speaking and Listening, Vocabulary
Before You Watch
Tell children that they will watch the video Peep and the Big Wide World “A Peep of a Different Color” again.
- Discuss what children recall about the show from the first viewing.
- Provide a viewing focus for children by having them think about the new colors the characters make as they dip into jars of paint. Encourage them to make connections to their own color mixing explorations.
As You Watch
Pause the video when children recognize a new color the characters are mixing. Discuss the colors.
- Encourage children to share similar observations that had while mixing paints.
After You Watch
Talk about how the character's mixing explorations are similar to the colors the children made during their paint mixing explorations. Ask questions such as,
- Did Peep, Chirp, and Quack make any of the same colors you made while mixing paints? How did they make the new color?
- When Peep was yellow, what did he do to turn orange? How did you mix the color orange?
- How did Quack become the color brown? How did you mix the color brown?
- What happened to Quack when he went into the jar of white paint? What did you do to make a lighter shade of color?
- Why do you think yellow is Peep’s favorite color? Guide children to conclude it’s his favorite color because that is what color he is.
Ask children to share a favorite color and talk about why it is a favorite color.
Social Emotional Tip: Talk about how Dog recognized Peep, Chirp, and Quack even when they had changed their colors. Discuss how characteristics, like hair color, may change but a person is still the same. Help children understand that how a person speaks, moves, smiles, and treats others are clues to who the person is just as much as how he or she looks.
Adaptation: If younger children have trouble concentrating during the video, show one section of the video at a time. Discuss that section before moving on to the next. Encourage children to guess what will happen next.
Educator Tip: Watching and discussing the selected PEEP stories and live-action video clips can spark and extend children’s interest and understanding of color. We suggest that children watch the video clips after they have had an opportunity to do their own initial exploration of colors. That way your children can compare their experiences and discoveries with those shown on the video clip and think about what additional color explorations they might like to try.
