The booklet is entitled Sing a Song of colors by
Linda Brown.

YELLOW BIRDIE
(tune: "She'll Be Coming Around the Mountain")
Yellow Birdie sitting in a lemon tree,
You're as pretty and as Yellow as can be.
I will give you such a treat,
Lots of bugs and worms to eat,
If you promise not to fly away from me.

BEND and SWAY
(tune:"London Bridge")
Yellow flowers bend and sway
Bend and sway, bend and sway;
Yellow flowers bend and sway
When the wind blows.

Yellow ducks say
"Quack, quack, quack," (repeat)
In the water.

Yellow birds
Are flying high (repeat)
In the sky.

Yellow lemons
In my tea (repeat)
Make me pucker.

Yellow chicks
Peck yellow corn (repeat)
In the barnyard.

Yellow songs
Are fun to sing (repeat)
I love yellow.


POEM
OUTSIDE AND IN
Yellow is for sunshine
That chases clouds away
It warms my skin
Outside and in
When I go out to play.

Colors is one of our favorite units. We sometimes do "color saturation" as
Elizabeth does. By the end of the unit we REALLY know our colors! :-) Here
are some more YELLOW songs and ideas that we've used.

SONGS

You Are My Sunshine

5 Little Ducks (we made yellow pom pom ducklings to use while we sing the
song)


Yellow Song (tune: Someone's In The Kitchen With Dinah")

Yellow is the color of bananas
Yellow is the color of the sunshine, too
Yellow is the color of corn on the cob
I like yellow don't you?

BOOKS

"Curious George and the Man with the Yellow Hat" By Rey

"Yellow Ball" by Molly Bang

"Little Blue and Little Yellow" by Leo Lionni

"Big Yellow Taxi" by Ken WIlson-Max

"Big Yellow Machines" by Jean Eick

"I've Lost My Yellow Zebra" by Angela Brooksbank

"Red, Blue, Yellow Shoe" by Tana Hoban

FLANNELBOARD

Five Yellow Polka Dots
(Precut 5 yellow circles from yellow felt)

Five yellow polka dots lay on the floor,
One sat up and then there were four.
Four yellow polka dots got on their knees,
One tipped over and then there were three.
Three yellow polka dots stood on one shoe,
One fell down and then there were two.
Two yellow polka dots started to run,
One stopped quickly and then there was one.
One yellow polka dot rolled toward the door,
When it disappeared there were no more.
From 1,2,3 Colors Theme-A-Saurus
ACTIVITIES

Place cornmeal in the sensory table with scoops and bowls

Corn cob printing with yellow paint

Shades of YELLOW paintings....dark, light, medium, neon yellows at easels

Play Yellow Balloon Volleyball in gross motor area

Keep an on going graph of yellow things....children bring in magazine pictures
from home to add to a picture-list started in class....hang the graph on the
wall and watch it grow.

Have a "wear yellow day" and chart how many people wore yellow SOCKS or PANTS,
or SHIRTS, or RIBBONS, or SHIRTS, etc.

FOODS

bananas
corn
pineapple
apples
corn muffins
scrambled eggs
butter....make it with real whipping cream and have on yellow crackers
chicken noodle soup