red light, green light, Yield!

We did letter Y this week in wee school.  On the first day we talked about Yellow.  We read Living Color, a really cool book that talks about animals and their many different colors and what the colors mean--danger, warning, poison, camouflage, etc.  We read just the yellow pages, and learned about a spider that turns yellow when he crawls into a yellow flower to hide and catch his lunch, a yellow fish that hides in yellow seaweed, a yellow crab that lives in yellow sand, and many more!

We then went on a Yellow scavenger hunt and filled our bags with yellow things we found on our walk outside.  We used our scavenger hunt treasures to make crayon impressions on our paper.

On day two, I had no idea how to introduce a Yodeling Yak to the kids, so I decided to stick with Yellow.  We reviewed the Yellow animal book, and remembered that some animals were Yellow as a warning.  We read the Richard Scarry Building a New Road story from the What Do People Do All Day book, and tried to find all the yellow road signs.

We talked about all the different Yellow road signs that help us be safe when we're on the road.  There are so many!  Yield, railroad crossing, people crossing, cows crossing, tractors crossing, merging, watch for icy roads, wet roads, etc.  We also talked about the street lights that have red for stop, green for go, and Yellow for Yield, or slow down.

Then we went outside for a fantastic game of Red Light, Green Light, Yield.  Red and Green were stop and go, respectively, and if I held up a Yellow Yield sign, the kids had to pay attention and do what the sign said--make a train choo-choo sound, run around in a circle, go slow, moo for a cow crossing, make a tractor noise, squiggle run...  What fun!