Preparing

• Cut enough round shapes for each child
• Cut up the bananas into enough pieces for each child in your group just before morning ring
• Make yellow finger-paint

Morning ring

• Call the children together using their special morning ring signal
• Sing good morning to the children (the children join in)
• Say a short prayer of gratitude
• Tell the children that, as it is Tuesday, the Tuesday helpers have a turn to tell news
• Ask the children what the weather is like today – decide together what the weather feels like
• Say, "Look children – I am wearing yellow! Let’s see if any of you are wearing yellow today." Look around the class and get the children to point out yellow things
• Give each child a piece of banana to eat. Ask them what colour bananas are when they are ripe (yellow!)
• Put out round-shaped papers. Provide yellow and red crayons for the children to draw a happy sun or anything else they like. The children may notice that when they draw red over the yellow (or the other way around) the two colours mix and make orange
• To end: let the helpers go to the main art activity first. The other children can go in groups to the other art activities

Art activities

Main activity: Drawing a yellow sun – make the edges of your paper look smart by cutting into it or cutting small triangles into it

Other activities: Playdough, yellow finger-paint, washing activity or spreading bread with peanut butter

Music: dancing

• Call the children using their special music signal (claps or songs, etc.)
• Play music: a bell or drum at different tempos (speeds) and let the children dance faster and slower
• Ask the children to think of a dance to dance that is like the big yellow sun in the sky. All dance as if you were the sun. The teacher can beat a rhythm on one of the musical instruments
• To end: Say all the children wearing blue can dance to the toilet and to wash their hands for tea... then the children wearing red, then yellow and so on

Outdoor play

Comment on the colours in your surroundings – talk to the children about colour.

Encourage the children to do the interest/discovery activity of mixing colours if you have set it up outside. Encourage children to look for insects and to think about whether they are camouflaged well in their surroundings.

Indoor play

Show the Tuesday helpers your stacking toys. If the children do not want to play this game, don’t force them to – just say "Maybe next time?" in a friendly way. Encourage the children to play at the theme table.

Story time

• Call the children using their special story time signal
• Try to find stories about colour or one that has something about bananas or the sun in it
• To end: tell the children that when you touch their smiling faces they can go to the toilet and to wash their hands for lunch

Prepare for Wednesday on Tuesday afternoon

1. Prepare and set out the art activities
2. Make sure you know what to do for all the rings
3. Paint about five papers with blue dye or food colouring on both sides. When they are dry, cut the papers into small squares of about 1cmx1cm. This is for making "necklaces"
4. Cut old drinking straws into six pieces (you will need at least 30)
5. Wear something blue on Wednesday