Book: Mix It Up!
This book was from the same creator as Press Here. It continues our conversations with color mixing by creatively exploring how various colors can be blended to create a new color.
Snack: Pirate Booty, Clementines, and Raisins Book: Mix It Up! This book was from the same creator as Press Here. It continues our conversations with color mixing by creatively exploring how various colors can be blended to create a new color.
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Book: Touch Here by Herve Tullet Snack: Cheese, Oranges, and Watermelon
![]() Snack: watermelon, string cheese & carrots The book we read today was a story of a young girl whose uncle is an artist. When she visits him they paint together in his studio. He teaches her how she can make any color of the rainbow by just using 5 colors; red, blue, yellow, white and black. Julie took a small group to the studio today to try out paint mixing. Sigrid: I'm going to make purple with red and blue. Lucy: It's making purple! Brady: (chooses yellow and blue paint) It's green! Lucy: I added white. It will be lighter. It looks like the inside of a blueberry. Then the three children decided to paint the same picture the girl painted in the story. Sigrid: I'm going to make a purple snake. Brady: How do you make a tongue? Sigrid: This is how you make a tongue...with a line and then two lines. Lucy: I made it grey. Sigrid: I will use it for my rock. I'm going to make grass. Lucy: It's a snake and a fly. Brady: The snake is trying to eat the bug in the mouth. This is the spider web for the spider. Another small group worked with the light tables in the office.
Here are some of the childrens' words as they noticed and explored the new sculpture.
Brady: It's a giraffe...You can go under it! Jack: We don't want to get in the trunk. Birk: You can actually climb in it! Jack: If you go in it, it could be a slide. Harry: But not up to the trunk. You could fall off! Morgan: Elephants don't ride bikes. Theertha: Elephants do want to play! Suzette: It has to be a gorilla riding a bicycle! Lily: It's a bear. Lucy: It's a elephant Eloise: It's a giraffe because it's sooo tall! Brady: That Bike was big enough for him to ride on, so her rided on it! Snack: Corn Puff and Grapes While working in the message center... Eloise: I'm making this for Aunt Jen and Sophie. It's a math problem. Lucy: I'm making this for my mom. Sigrid: I'm making this one for my mom, it's a garden. Mia: I'm making this for my grandma. Harlow: This message is for my mom. Ellie: I'm making this bracelet for Lauren. I will put it in her mailbox. How do you write your name? Lauren: L A U R E N. We both have a Lsin our name. Ellie: But, I have 2 Ls in my name. Eloise: We are going to make a bunch of messages for our classroom at home. Snack: Pineapple, Vanilla Wafers, and Cheese Sticks
Friday, August 28th, No School, Professional Development Day
The children have shown an interest in listening to music, while they play. We would love for you to share with us their favorite songs from home. We will also be compiling a list here at school. Please help us create a new musical playlist for our children to enjoy, by commenting below with song ideas below. Thank you!
Snack: Goldfish Crackers and Watermelon
Book: Little Blue and Little Yellow by Leo Lionni Over the last few days, several children have had the opportunity to explore watercolor. The children have been noticing some things about color in the studio and have started linking it to other areas inside and outside. While playing in the block area with colored blocks... Suzette: Red and blue make purple. Birk: Yellow and blue make green. During Morning Meeting... Katie: If you would like to share your favorite color or some other favorite things I will pass you the magical talking wand and you can take your turn. I will go first. My favorite color is blue. I love bread and butter and playing volleyball. Harlow: Orange is my favorite color. I also like ice cream and playing with my Nash Nugget. Mia: Blue is my favorite color and I like red watermelon. Ellie: Blue and pink are my favorites! Harry: I like fire colored weapons. Suzette: I like tacos. Izzy: I love the color pink, playing doll house and toast. Birk: Red and blue are my favorites and I like to eat tacos and pizza. I like to play with all my toys at home. Zoe: I like purple, pancakes, and soccer. Jack: Green, goldfish crackers and playing with my toy garbage truck. Hattie: My favorite thing is doggie and pink. Carly: Pink and yellow are my favorites and I like to read books. Lucy: I like pink and blue and goldfish crackers. Sigrid: I love pizza and playing pretend. Morgan: I love dinosaurs and blue. Brady: I like blue and playing with trucks outside. Theertha: I like rainbows and singing my little pony songs. Lily: I love pink and purple and playing in the mud. Eloise: I love pink and purple. I like to eat mac n cheese and playing princess. Lauren: I like pink and Remy my dog. While painting and listening to music in our outdoor studio... Lucy: Look! Sigrid: That's a shadow. Katie: How could we use this shadow? Sigrid: We could save it by painting it. I will paint your shadow. Suzette: I want to trace my own, see. Hattie: I'm going to trace my foot shadow. Katie: I notice you are using the brush to paint on the rocks. I wonder what will happen? Lily: Let's do an experiment. Lucy: Yes, like Katie talked about this morning with the little blue and little yellow. We can watch our rocks. We can see if the paint mixes with the rock. Eloise: I've done an experiment before to see if dogs cry. Did you know they cry out their noses? Let's do it. Let's experiment. We need to leave our rocks out and check on them later. Katie: Where should we leave them and how will we know what's happened? Eloise: If the paint is there we will see it. Lily: If the paint is mixed the rock will change colors. Lucy: Maybe the paint might not, so maybe we should check on it more than one time in case it goes away too fast. Let's check after lunch and Katie will you leave them out so we can check them again tomorrow? Katie: That sounds like a good plan! (After lunch) Lily: It didn't work. The rocks are dry and the paint is gone! While dancing to music with instruments and scarves in our outdoor studio... Mia: I can see you through this scarf, but you are a new color. It changes your skin to purple. Zoe: I love this song! The Little Mermaid is my favorite. Izzy: I can fly like a beautiful rainbow butterfly! Harry: I like to dance to the Mulan battle song. Carly: This is pretty colors. Lily: I can move my body like I did with my paint brush. ![]() The book we read today talked about the invisible buckets we all carry around with us. When our buckets are "full" we feel happy. We can fill each others buckets by being kind, doing, or saying nice things, and by smiling at each other. When we fill someone's bucket, we fill our own buckets as well! Riding tricycles is an activity that engages many different muscle groups, and requires balance and coordination. Children first have to use abdominal muscles to stay upright and balance themselves on the bike. They use their feet and leg muscles to pedal, their arm and hand muscles to steer, and their eyes to see where they are going. We are fortunate to have a bike trail that has some turns and hills to challenge our young riders. The look of pride on their face is evident when they navigate a turn, or finally make it up the hill!!
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This blog is created by Julie Abeles, Susan Goldwasser, Katie Graham and Kath Poppe, teaching team for the Family Center @ CHS. Archives
April 2016
Teacher Professional Development
You may know that the early release Fridays are designed for teacher professional development. This is a book the Early Childhood team of teachers have been studying this semester. Other professional development topics this fall have included; literacy & read alouds, health, wellness & mindfulness, the language of clay and becoming a reflective teacher.
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