Penguins Love Colors Book Companion February Preschool Kindergarten 1st 2nd Sped

About this resource

One theme, one week. Read the same book every day at circle time: five penguin siblings each have a

favorite color, and mix red, blue and yellow paints together to make new colors for a picture they

paint for their mother. After the read-aloud each day, pull one simple activity: sort what is a

color and what is not, count penguins, find the letter P, put the steps of getting ready to paint in

order, then build a penguin-at-the-easel craft with a paintbrush, a palette, a bucket of water, paper

and four colors of paint. Every student page has one short instruction with a picture, so a

paraprofessional can run the room from it too.

This week pairs with **Penguins Love Colors by Salina Yoon** (or any book about mixing colors you

already have). Not affiliated with the author or publisher. You need your own copy of the book;

nothing from it is reproduced here, and every picture in the file is our own drawing or a licensed

picture set, not the book's artwork — the four color words (red, blue, yellow, green) are our own

hand-drawn circles, never an emoji glyph, so there is no ambiguity about which color is which.

EVERYTHING INSIDE (58 pages)

• 1 Start Here week plan: what to do after the read-aloud each day, plus what else it practices
• 1 book-and-words page naming the read-aloud, an original circle-time chant ("Mix It Up," written

for this unit — no song or story text is reprinted), and the 9 circle-time vocabulary words

• 9 smartboard slides for whole-group circle time on a projector or interactive board: the cover art,

name the pictures, sort, count (3 slides), the letter hunt, the life skill in order, and the core

word

• 9 circle-time vocabulary cards to cut out and use at the carpet (penguin, paintbrush, bucket, snow,

sun, red, blue, yellow, green)

• Day 1, Sort (is it a color, or not?), at 3 levels: Level 1 errorless matching, Level 2 the standard

two-group sort (8 cut-and-glue pieces), Level 3 a third group added (a color, a penguin thing, or

weather — 10 cut-and-glue pieces), all three levels agreeing with each other on what is a color

• Day 2, Count the penguins, at 3 levels: Levels 1 and 2 count sets of 1 to 5 with a 5-piece numeral

strip to cut and glue; Level 3 counts sets of 6 to 10 and writes the number, no cutting

• Day 3, Letter P, at 3 levels: Level 1 glues 5 matching P's, Level 2 finds P among 10 look-alike

letters, Level 3 says 10 pictures aloud and glues the 5 that start like "penguin"

• Writing, at 3 levels: Level 1 traces the big letters, Level 2 traces letters and the word

"penguin," Level 3 writes the letters and the word independently on primary lines

• Day 4, a life-skill sequencing page: 5 picture pieces (4 real getting-ready-to-paint steps — get

the paints, pick up the brush, dip it in water, paint the picture — first/next/then/last, plus 1

that does not belong)

• Day 5, a book craft: color and cut a plain penguin body, then a sheet of 10 pieces (a paintbrush, a

palette, a bucket, a sheet of paper, a star, a snowflake, and 4 small paint blobs in red, blue,

yellow and green — every cut a straight dashed rectangle) and glue them onto the penguin standing

at an open easel scene

• 2 fine motor pages: a tracing-paths page and a cutting-practice page (4 strips, easiest first)
• 4 core-word pages for the word of the week, "favorite": a big word card for the talker or core

board, a 12-word find-and-circle grid (6 of the 12 are the target word "favorite"), a heart to

color, and 10 color circles to cut out and glue inside it

• 1 "Who Did What This Week" data page (one row per student, a prompt-level code for each day —

handy for IEP notes and progress reports)

• 1 family letter to send home on Day 1
• 1 "More From Bright Path Sped" page: four sibling theme weeks shown with their own covers and one

line each on what they cover

• 1 credits page (art and font licenses)
• Ink-saver twins of 19 picture-based student pages (the craft and pure-coloring pages are

color-only) in outline art for a photocopier, so the color pages above are optional, not required

Three Levels On Every Academic Task

Sort, count, letters and writing each come in three levels, marked with a small shape instead of

a number so children don't compare theirs to a neighbor's: a circle for starting (errorless

matching), a square for building (the standard task), a triangle for ready for more (a real step

up — a third sort group, counting 6 to 10 with writing, or beginning sounds).

Cutting Built For Small Hands

Every cutting page carries 5 or more pieces, lined up edge to edge so each cut is one straight

line. Pre-cut them yourself for students who are not cutting independently yet.

Color Or Ink-Saver

Print the color pages, or use the ink-saver twins at the back on a photocopier — most

picture-based student pages have both (the craft and pure-coloring pages are color-only by design).

Who This Is For

Any teacher starting a self-contained preschool or early childhood special education classroom

who wants a whole week of circle time, ready to pull and go: one theme, a different simple

activity every day.

What This Is, And What It Is Not

A print-and-go weekly theme unit built around five penguins mixing paints to find their favorite

colors. It is not a claim about any student's age or rate of progress, and it does not reproduce any

book, its text, or its artwork — only our own penguin, paintbrush, palette, bucket and paint-blob

pieces are drawn here, and the four color circles are our own hand-drawn art, never an emoji. The

sorting activity ("is it a color, or not?") is a simple classroom sorting task, not a scientific or

clinical claim.