Classroom Components for Rainbows

The following activities are a menu with very “in general” suggestions of what learning style or intelligence might be touched.

 

Books(Linguistic):

·          Schwartz, Betty Ann. What Makes a Rainbow?

·          Walsh, Ellen Stoll.  Mouse Paint

·          Freeman, Don. A Rainbow of My Own.

·          Cole, Joanna. The Magic School Bus Makes a Rainbow.

·          Mayer, Mercer.  Bubble, Bubble.

·          Prism, the Rainbow Pony (from Science Curriculum.)

 

Videos(Visual/Spatial):

 

Whole group activities-(ST)( Could use any of the intelligences, please list): 
!. Rainbow Bubbles- (Vis/Spac, Bodily Kins, Naturalist)

2. Rainbow Peephole Exploration ((Vis, Bodily Kins, Naturalist)

3. Make a Rainbow- (Vis/Spac, Bodily Kins. Naturalist) w/ data sheet (attached)

4. A Floating Rainbow. (Vis/Spac, Bodily Kins)

5. Use Yarn or pipe cleaners to review colors, order of rainbow, curved, straight. (Vis    Spac, Bodily Kins, Naturalist)

6. Mixing colors on overhead (visual Spac, Naturalist)
7. Color wheels
8.  Rainbow poem from science curriculum

9. “Student” rainbow using color cards

 

Whole group Songs(Music)/Movement(Bodily/Kinesthetic):
1.  Rainbow in the sky (attached)

2.       Who stole the colors from the color box? (attached)

3.       The Artist Paints Pictures (attached)

 

Journal Activities (Intrapersonal)(NT):
1.  Write statements about what he/she sees and feels as colors blend together.

 

 

 

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