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🎨 2nd Grade · ArtVA:Cr1.2Unit 2: Color

Primary colors

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🎯 Objective: Students identify red, yellow and blue.

Lesson outline

  1. Color hunt.
  2. Paint with primaries.
  3. Share.
  4. Exit: name the primaries.

Lesson 1 of 3 in this unit. In the Lesson Planner this lesson takes 1–3 class periods depending on your timetable: day 1 introduce & model, then practice, small-group reteach and a quick check.

📐 Standard

VA:Cr1.2

National Core Arts Standards — Visual Arts (grade band K–2)

🏁 Unit goals

  • Name primary and secondary colors
  • Mix colors with paint

✅ Check for understanding

End with the exit ticket in the outline. Sort answers into got it / almost / not yet and start the next lesson with a 5-minute reteach for the “not yets”.

Practice & resources on Thinkabara

🖍️ Coloring pages🎨 Drawing ideas⚡ Capy Live class quiz

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More lessons in “Color”

  1. Primary colors
  2. Mixing secondary colors
  3. Warm and cool colors

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