All About Red

Preschool Science,

by Sanayya Sohail October 7, 2015

Use this lesson to show your students all of the red items around us. Your students will have a great time using
red paint to create fingerprints on a class poster board!

Learning Objectives

Students will be able to identify words that rhyme with red. Students will be able to identify various objects that
are red.

Materials and Preparation Key Terms

The Color Red worksheet

Scissors
Stapler
Colored pencils
Pencils
Erasers
Timer
What Rhymes with Red? worksheet
Notebook paper
Red paint
Bucket
Paper towels
Sink
Soap
Trash can
Poster board

Attachments

PDF
The Color Red
PDF
What Rhymes with Red?

Introduction (5 minutes)

Tell your students that today they will be learning about the color red.
Ask your students if they can name any objects that are red.

Explicit Instruction/Teacher Modeling (30 minutes)

Go around the class and ask your students to name an object that is red.
List the words, along with a drawing, on the board.

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Guided Practice/Interactive Modeling (20 minutes)

Ask your students to color the pictures and trace the words on The Color Red worksheet.
Set the timer to ten minutes.
After the timer goes off, have your students cut the pictures along the dotted lines.
Go around the class to staple the books together for your students.

Independent Working Time (20 minutes)

Ask your students to complete the What Rhymes With Red? worksheet.
Ask your students to use the words and illustrations on the board to help them.

Differentiation

Enrichment: Ask your students to write five sentences using the word "red."
Support: Take your students around the class in a line. Have them point and touch red objects. Tell
them the name of the object. Have them repeat it.

Assessment (10 minutes)

Ask your students to draw and write the names of any two objects that are red.

Review and Closing (20 minutes)

Get a poster board and a bucket of red paint.

Have the students come up one at a time and put their hands in the paint.
After that, ask your students to put their hands on the poster board for five seconds.
Ask each student to wash their hands with soap and water after putting their hand prints on the board.
Ask your students to wipe their hands using paper towel.

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