Here’s another one of Holly’s poems for you. Green is popping out all over (well, in South Carolina) so you can use this poem now or save it for later. You’ll also find some suggestions for extension activities you can use.
Green
Green grass,
Green trees,
Green pickles,
Green peas.
Green grows
And green makes
Green lizards,
Green snakes.
Green leaves
Pop out in the
spring;
Green is such
A lovely thing!
Color
Recognition (Visual Skills)
Sing this song to
the tune of “Do You Know the Muffin Man?”
Do you see the
color green, the color green, the color green?
Do you see the
color green somewhere in the room?
Each child gets up
and touches an object that is green.
(Adapt the song for other colors, beginning sounds, etc.)
Hint! Cover a cardboard roller from a pants
hanger with green paper to make a green pointer!
Remember (Listening
Skills and Model Writing)
Read the poem to
the children one time. Ask them to
recall the different objects in the poem that are green. Write their responses on the board. Read the poem a second time and see how
many more objects they can remember.
Read over the list together.
If I Were Green
(Oral Language)
Have children
close their eyes and pretend they are green. What are they?
Write this sentence at the top of a sheet of paper and run off a copy
for each child. “If I were green I
would be ________.” (Younger
children can dictate their responses, while older children complete their own
sentences.) Put their papers
together to make a class book.
“Eye” Can Graph
(Math Comparisons)
Pass a small
mirror around the classroom.
Encourage each child to look at their eyes and describe what color they
are. Make a bar graph by cutting
out eyes from construction paper as shown. Let each child color in a section by the color of their
eyes. What color do the most
people have? What color do the
least number have? Have children
go home and look at their parents’ eyes.
Are they the same color as their eyes?
Natural Green (Science
Investigation)
Ask the children
to think about all of the things in nature that are green. Write their list on the board as they
call out objects. “Are all of
these the same shade of green?”
Take the class on a nature walk and have each child collect one
“specimen” that is green. Bring their
objects back in the classroom and compare. Are they all the same?
Have children describe their differences. Can they sort the objects? Did they collect plants or animals? What animals are green? What time of year do you see the most
green?
Green Collage (Creativity)
Provide children
with green paint, green crayons, green markers, and green paper. Invite children to create a “green
collage” on a piece of cardboard or a paper plate.
Scratch and
Sniff Green (Word Recognition)
Give each child a
heavy piece of paper. Write the
word “green” on their paper with school glue. (An adult will need to do this for younger children.) Let each child take a spoonful of lime
jello and sprinkle it over the glue.
(Model how to shake it around and then dump off the excess.) After it dries, children can “scratch
and sniff” the word green.
