Rainbow Fish Ideas

So next week, my class is going to see the play "Rainbow Fish".  Therefore, the 3's teacher and I decided it would be fun to come up with ideas on based on this theme!  I thought you may enjoy reading about some of our ideas!  We are very fortunate because we will have enough teachers to lead each group.  I have myself, an assistant, a cadet teacher who will be there that day, and the 3's teacher because we are combining classes for the activities.  However, most of these activities can be accomplished with whole group settings. 

Rainbow Fish Activities

Group 1:  Play color word Candyland game.  We have an old Candyland board.  Then took a blank dice and wrote color words on it.  The students will roll the dice and read the color word; then move to that color on the board.  For the 3's and the ones still struggling with colors in general, we have a dice with the colors on it, and they will say the color, and then move to the correct color on the board.

Group 2:  Finger-painting Rainbow Fish-We printed out a coloring sheet of the rainbow fish.  The students will dip fingers into different color paint and paint the dots on the fish different colors.  

Group 3:  Rainbow Fish Coloring Sheet-The advanced students will read the color words and color the fish according to the words. The lower students will look at number chart and color the numbers according to the correct color.  The number chart is labeled with numbers 1-6 and next to each number, we made a square.  For number 1, we colored a small blue square; for number 2, we colored a purple square, etc.  Then, we numbered the fish according the colors we wanted it to be.  

Group 4: Science-Read “Water” book.  While reading allow students to explore with water and ice.  We have a book called "Water."   I am not sure who wrote the book.  I will find out and let you know.  As the leader of the group is reading the book, the students will explore with ice and water.  This book talks about different forms of water and pre-k students love playing in water so I thought this would be a fun activity for them and goes well with the "Rainbow Fish."

100th day of school...a  fun day of learning that the students will remember. Working with young kids, I have to be fast paced or they will get bored and into trouble.  Below is some ideas I came up with that almost any age group can do. 

I plan on starting my day out with the following:

100 exercises-10 jumping jacks, 10 toe touches, 10 twists, 10 claps, 10 slides, 10 high fives, 10 jumps, 10 tippy  toes, 10 bows, 10 arm stretches

100 seconds of silence-yoga style

100 seconds of dancing

100 chant-students repeat after me.  I will saying it like a cheer to get them excited!

Then my students will go into stations. I plan on doing stations two different times throughout the day...once in the morning and once in the afternoon; therefore I have ten stations.  I plan on having them work in each station for 10 minutes.  (This means they will work with 100 stuff for 100 minutes)

100 day stations-I am going to mark arrows with tape on the floor to show where they rotate to, play music during work time, when music stops and bell rings, the students move to the next station by following arrows on floor

Stations

Station 1:Practice writing and stamping the number 100.

Station 2: Paint 100 fingerprints

Stations 3: Put together a 100 piece puzzle

Station 4: 100 chart picture-The students will color each number on the 100 chart as I say the number.  When they are finish, they would have colored boxes to look like the number 100.

Station 5: 100 cutout picture-I plan on using our die cut machine and cutting out a 1, 0, 0 for each student. Each student will turn these three numbers into a picture of their choice.

Station 6: The students will build something out of 100 legos

Station 7: Make 100 day necklaces by stringing 100 fruit loops on a piece of yarn

Station 8:  The students will try stacking 100 coins or blocks without letting them fall

Station 9: The students will link together 100 unifix cube and measure to see how if something in the room is that length

Station 10: Students will each bring in 100 snacks in a ziplock bag. (100 skittles, 100 goldfish, etc.) They will combine all their snacks together and eat their snacks.

Before our 100 day of school, we will make hats to wear along with our necklaces.  

Along with all of this, our students will also join with the other classes at our school for a piece of 100 day cake, 100 day songs, 100 day questions, and get a picture with Zero the Hero (Our principal will be dressed up as Zero the Hero!)