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Colors Week 1 Family Science

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What Your Child Will Learn Science skills: Describing, comparing, and matching colorsScience idea: There are many different colors. Vocabulary words to practice: paint, color

A Peep of a Different Color Peep, Quack, and Chirp discover paint and how fun it is to look different.

Colors Everywhere! Explore the colors around us, indoors and outdoors.

Day1(20–30 minutes)

What You Need Video: A Peep of a Different Color (9 minutes)

What to Do Sit together so you can talk about the video while you watch. 1. Before you watch, SAY: • Let’s see what happens when Peep, Chirp, and Quack play with paint. • Peep says his favorite color is yellow. What’s yours? Can you think of some things that

are that color?

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ACTIVITY

What Your Child Will Learn Science skills: Describing, comparing, and matching colorsScience idea: There are many different colors. Vocabulary words to practice: colors, same, different, compare

Colors Around Us Match the color of crayons to things around us.

Ask Questions and Talk About IdeasConnect what you are doing to something your child already knows—like colors.

2. After you watch, ASK: • Can you remember what colors Peep, Chirp, and Quack are?

What happens to them after they jump into the paint?• Quack says he’s blue, but Chirp says Quack is purple. What

do you think?

Ask Questions and Talk About IdeasTake turns listening and speaking.

What You Need crayons

What to Do1. Spread out the crayons and name the colors together.

2. SAY: • Let’s find a crayon that is the same color as Peep. • Let’s find something in the room that is the same color as the yellow crayon.

Play and Explore TogetherYour attention and encouragement make a big difference!

3. Ask your child to compare the yellow crayon to the yellow object he/she found in the room. ASK: Are these yellows exactly the same? How do you think they are different?

4. Then find crayons that are the same colors as Chirp and Quack. Look around the room for things that are the same colors as those crayons. Compare the colors—are they the same or different? How are they different?

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Ask Questions and Talk About IdeasAsk questions to help your child think more about the activity. Start a question by asking “What do you think...?”

Keep Learning!• Have your child draw Peep, Chirp, and Quack on a piece of paper and color them.

ASK: I wonder why you used these colors? Tell me about your drawing. • Read a book together and talk about the colors in it.

Explore More!Explore the same science topic with different materials or in a different place.

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ACTIVITY

What Your Child Will Learn Science skills: Describing, comparing, and matching colorsScience idea: There are many different colors. Vocabulary words to practice: color, different, same

Color Hunt Go outside and see what colors you find!

Day 2 (20–30 minutes)

What You Need Video: A Peep of a Different Color (9 minutes)

What to Do 1. Watch the video again and talk about what you notice this time. Sit together so you

can talk about the video while you watch.

2. After you watch, ASK:• What was the trick Peep, Chirp, and Quack played on

their friends? • How did they fool the turtle and the raccoon?

Explore More!Watch it again! Children learn new things each time.

What Your Child Will Learn Science skills: Describing, comparing, and matching colorsScience ideas: There are many different colors. Vocabulary words to practice: color, notice

A Peep of a Different Color Peep, Quack, and Chirp discover paint and how fun it is to look different.

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What You Need camera on phone

What to Do1. SAY: Let’s go outside and see what colors we find!

2. Point out and name the different colors as you take a walk.

3. Take pictures of some of the different colors you see.

Explore More!Play indoors and outdoors. Explore the same science topic in a different place.

Talk About What You LearnedWhen you go back inside, look at the pictures together and ASK: • Tell me about what’s in this picture. What color do you think this is?• Do you see that color in some of the other pictures we took?• What do you think we can we find around our home that is the same color as our picture?

Ask Questions and Talk About IdeasTake pictures and discuss. To learn, children need to reflect (think about) what they did.

Keep Learning!• Give your child crayons and ASK: Can you draw something you saw outside today?

Then talk about the drawing and its color.• The next time you do laundry, go to the store, or make a meal, talk about the colors

you see.

Explore More!Add new materials to explore in a different way.

Play, Talk, and Explore More! During the week, continue to notice and talk about the colors you see indoors and outside. Come up with your own ideas about how to make this fun for your child—you might invent a color game, for example. The more you play, talk, and explore together, the more you help your child think, learn, and grow.

© 2018 WGBH Educational Foundation. PEEP and the Big Wide World is a trademark or registered trademark of WGBH Educational Foundation. All rights reserved. All third party trademarks are the property of their respective owners. Used with permission. «Peep,» «Quack,» «Chirp,» «Tom» and «Nellie» were originally created by Kai Pindal for the National Film Board of Canada productions The Peep Show (©1962, National Film Board of Canada) and Peep and the Big Wide World (©1988, National Film board of Canada). PEEP and the Big Wide World® is produced by WGBH and 9 Story Entertainment in association with TVOntario. Major funding for PEEP and the Big Wide World is provided by the National Science Foundation. This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 1612643. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.