One of our classes was looking at colours, focussing on a different one every week. I found two very nice books for this topic.
Something Begining with Blue is a lovely book with holes to peep through and encourages you to guess what is behind the peep hole.
Brown Bear, Brown Bear What do you See? is a very simple story with a repetative narrative. We used this one in class as a sensory story using coloured objects for the children to explore. We sat around a table covered with a large black tray (this allowed the colours to be easily seen against the background as some of the children are visually imapired). I tried to find items that were interesting to both feel and look at and some made interesting noises.
As we read the book we filled the tray with objects to match the colour of each animal (e.g. blue objects for the blue horse etc). A laminated picture of the animal was placed on the
tray so that we could see they were the same colour.
At the end of the book I used a monkey puppet then the children looked at themselves in the mirror. We finished by placing all the laminated pictures on the tray and repeating the colours. Despite being such a simple story the children remained focused on the objects and the session lasted approx 35 - 40 minutes. Another addition which could be made is to sing a song about each colour as it is being explored.
