Terrific Twos: The Color GREEN

We are continuing our color theme at Terrific Twos this week.  GREEN is the color of the environment, grass, leaves and nature.  It can also take on the meaning of growth.  When children are painting, and combine the colors YELLOW and BLUE,  they create the color GREEN.

Help your child learn the color GREEN using the great tactics of reading aloud, talking, singing, playing and writing.  Help Your Child Get Ready to Read!

• Read one of the books below about the color GREEN.
• Talk about the different images you see outside that are GREEN.
• Sing the rhyme below about the GREEN turtle.
• Play the game below about the GREEN stoplight.
• Have fun with finger painting or watercolors, and create the color GREEN.

The Turtle Rhyme
There was a little turtle – he lived in a box.
He swam in a puddle – he climbed on some rocks.
He snapped at a mosquito – he snapped at a flea.
He snapped at a minnow – he snapped at me!
He caught the mosquito – he caught the flea.
He caught the minnow – but he didn’t catch me.

There was a little turtle – he lived in a box.
He swam in a puddle – he climbed on some rocks.
He snapped at a mosquito – he snapped at a flea.
He snapped at a minnow – he snapped at me!
He caught the mosquito – he caught the flea.
He caught the minnow – but he didn’t catch me.

We read these books at Terrific Twos this week: 


Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? by Bill Martin
In a question and answer game, a teacher and her group see a variety of animals, each one a different color.
En un juego de las pregunta respuesta, una maestra y su grupo ven una variedad de animales, cada un de color diverso.
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Where is the Green Sheep? by Mem Fox
A story about many different sheep, and one that seems to be missing.  / Ésta es la oveja azul. Y ésta es la oveja roja. ¿Pero dónde está la oveja verde?
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Check out these other fun rhymes and books about the color GREEN:

The Green Line by Polly Farquarson
A child takes a walk to and through a park and notices blossoms on a tree, flowers growing through a fence, a grassy hillside for rolling down, clouds in the sky, a friendly dog, rain splashing in puddles, and much more!
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Green = El Verde by Sharon Gordon
Shows many different things that are green. / Muestra varios objetos verdes. 
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Green by Anita Loughrey
Offers fun activities for early learners to find out about the color green.
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Green Says Go Game! (From our friends at King County Library System)
Green says, “GO!” (hold up the color green)
Go! Go! Go! (march in place)

Yellow says, “Slow!” (hold up the color yellow)
Slow…sloooow…slooooow (march slowly)

And red says, “Stop!” (hold up the color red)
(freeze)

(Hold up Green) Go! Go! Go!

(Hold up Yellow) Slow…sloooow…slooooow

(Hold up Red) STOP! (everybody freeze!)