Inspiration Comes in the Strangest Places

For the last few weeks, I've been struggling to think of units to make to use at the beginning of the school year.  I knew I wanted to incorporate the Common Core units Common Core Curriculum Maps but I just had a brain freeze.  Blame it on summer, too much blog hopping, laziness etc..
But today I took my son to an indoor playground called Makutu's Island here in the Phoenix area. To be honest,  I bribed him because I had to go to Lakeshore Learning to laminate first and it's on the way home...
Anyway, I brought a book to read and a notebook just in case I got bored.  We always stay for several hours so the chance of that were pretty good.  It's kind of loud and I really couldn't concentrate on the book I was ready. Good thing I brought the notebook.  I don't know how or why, but I found my inspiration!  Unit One is called "A Colorful Time with Rhythm and Rhyme."  I've got plans for a big nursery rhyme unit with the poems for pocket charts- I had already created a few of those-, rhyming games based on nursery rhymes, some Read It, Trace It, Put the Sentences together, and some beginning math games.  We'll see where it takes me, but I am excited to get started.
After I wrote down all my ideas for that, then I started thinking about the color portion of the unit, and my brain just started going with ideas for a color unit as well incorporating some popular books that are listed in the unit's resources.
So, anyway, we are home now and I need to get busy!
Oh, one more thing before I get busy on my unit- a HUGE thanks to Alicia at Dreamlike Magic for the new blog look!  It's so much cuter than I ever could have done on my own! Love it, love it, love it!