A Color of His Own Kindergarten Literature Unit In Action

We completed another Kindergarten Literature Unit, A Color of His Own, recently. It was SO nice to be back to learning this way, we both love it. We haven’t done a literature unit since before my husband’s accident over three months ago!

A Color of His Own Unit Study in Action

I love setting up a central area for our theme focus and my daughter loves it too. I gather our toys and books together and display them the night before we begin our unit. It helps to draw her in and get her excited about our learning time together. I usually borrow books from the library but didn’t have time to get there so we used the only two chameleon books we had.

We also didn’t have any actual chameleon toys, so since they are a part of the lizard family we invited all of her lizards to join us! She is a BIG lizard fan so this was very exciting for her!

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Instead of sorting in folders for each day, I put together a binder.

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I put the activities in the order I wanted to do them and we just did what we wanted to do each day. I didn’t stress out over how many activities we got done, we just did whatever worked. you’ll see below we finished the unit after a total of 7 different days working together.

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This was a REALLY fun unit, we both loved it!

Day One

We began by reading the book, which is a favorite so she enjoyed reading. We then went on to our first activity, sorting plants and animals from the story.

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Next we did the “What Begins with C?” activity. She loves to cut and decorate so this took awhile!

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That was it for day one, she took so long on those two activities, we ran out of time. I sued to get stressed and would rush my kids. Now I just try to relax and let them take their time. We just add days to the unit if needed!

Day Two

Again, we read the book. This time we discussed the friend the chameleon made near the end. We then did the character connection talking about being a good friend.

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She then put the story in order in our pocket chart!

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Next we read the mini book and used a toy lemon and “chameleon” to practice our position words!

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Day Three

To begin day 3, we watched some videos online about chameleons. All that we watched are pinned on my Pinterest board for this unit here. She LOVED this!

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She then worked on the 1-30 math activity.

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Next, we sorted chameleons, which turned into a very long activity!

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We sorted them many different ways and also each lined them up in order from our favorite to least favorite!

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Then she asked if she could cut them out and make a scene for them. Of course!

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That’s me {the stick person} with my big finger holding a chameleon! Winking smile

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Day Four

This day we only did one activity, the labeling project. She really enjoyed this one too.

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Day Five

Coloring the chameleon was quite the activity! She asked to laminate her new friend so she could keep him.’

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She also did the painting for the chameleon craft!

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Day 6

The chameleon dried overnight and the next day she put her together!

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She also worked on the color/shape activity!

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Day 7

On our final day we finished everything else up! First, we did the number line activity!

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She wanted to make it trickier and cover two numbers. We closed our eyes and took turns covering as the other one guessed the missing numbers.

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We then used the Bible verse printable and discussed how wonderful the chameleon is!

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Comprehension questions were fun! We folded them up in a little bucket and she chose one at a time to answer!

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Finally, she wrote a sentence about the chameleon. She wrote, “This is my pet chameleon.”

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She really learned a lot and the other book we used, Chameleons are Cool actually taught us the most. I caught her several times enjoying the books during the unit.

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