Write sentences together comparing children's hair colour, shape, height, weight and eye colour. Like Sue . Ask children to look at the garden on page 2 and tell you what colours they can see. Encourage the children to learn the names for all the colours. Write the names of the colours on cards.
Children take turns finding an object in the classroom for each colour card.
Ask the children to tell you what coloured flowers and plants they can see like those in the story. Make colour booklets with a different colour on each page. On each page, children draw a variety of items that are the same colour.