All About Gray | Preschool Color of the Week Unit
- Grades
- Preschool, K
- Pages
- 88
- File type
- Multiple File Types
- Topic
- Color gray, Preschool colors
- Resource types
- Activities, Lesson Plans, Worksheets, Coloring Pages, Games
- Standards
- L.K.5
Product description
From the author
Choose from coloring, tracing, photographs, a mini-book, crown, paint-themed cutouts and bingo to introduce the color gray. The 88-page PDF provides activities for preschool and kindergarten color lessons.
The mini-book traces ten object names and finishes with a favorite-gray-thing response. Separate illustrated posters practice gray and object words, with color and black-and-white versions. Ten photo posters introduce a different selection of gray subjects.
Forty 4-by-4 bingo boards and three call-card pages support group review. Print and prepare the activities you choose; supply coloring tools, scissors and fasteners for the book and crown.
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Teaching tips & learning objectives
Learning objectives
Identify the color gray by name and recognize it in everyday objects (elephant, castle, robot, whale, and others).
Trace object names in the mini-book and the word gray on the tracing posters.
Match a called object name to its picture on a personal 4x4 bingo card during the Gray Bingo game.
Teaching tips
Set up the paint-can and paint-brush cut-outs as a standing art-corner display for the whole week the unit runs, rather than a one-day activity, so students revisit the color repeatedly.
Save the Gray Bingo game for the end of the week as a review, after introducing the mini-book and tracing vocabulary and previewing additional objects on the call cards.
Because the object set spans concrete items (elephant, mouse) and less familiar vocabulary (quarter, road), preview any word a student may not recognize by sight before starting the mini-book so tracing doesn't stall on vocabulary alone.
Skills covered
Color recognition — students identify gray in photographs and illustrations, including elephants, a castle and a robot.
Letter and word tracing — students trace object names in the mini-book and gray plus object names on the posters.
Visual matching — students scan a personal 4x4 bingo card to match each object the teacher calls out during Gray Bingo.
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Questions teachers ask about this resource
How many different objects does the bingo game use, so I know if I need to pre-teach any vocabulary?
The game draws from 23 pictured gray objects plus a gray word card across its call cards — items like armor, axe, fridge, mailbox, and trash can alongside more familiar ones like elephant and mouse — so it's worth a quick vocabulary preview if your students haven't met the less common words yet.
Do I need to print every piece of this unit at once?
No. The file's own instructions say to choose which resources fit your lesson and print only those, since the kit bundles several standalone activities rather than a single required sequence.
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Standards
Standards
- L.K.5
Core concepts
Core concepts
Color recognition (gray)
Letter/word tracing
Object vocabulary
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