Our weekly color theme this month finally culminated with Rainbows. We put all the colors that we had learned about so far into one rainbow project. Rainbows are always fascinating to children and just talking about the rainbow art lit up our friends' eyes.
We started giving them blobs of paint in sequence while singing the rainbow song, and they chose to spread the colors on their paper the way they liked :)
"Red orange yellow green blue purple....these are the colors of the rainbow"...was something we hummed over and over again all through the art project.
In the end we gave them cellophane wrap to place on our painting and tapped on it with our fingers...this gave a lot of texture to our art. After it dried, we slowly peeled the wrap and sprayed shellac to hold the paint stiff so that it doesn't flake. Friends loved to feel their art. Some were poppy, spirally, bumpy, enchanted, and some even looked like falling drapes. It was interesting to see how the end product came out!
For 4th of July, we made fireworks with glue and sparkles. We talked about the word "independence" and even sang the Pledge of Allegiance. Some of us weren't familiar with it, so they just heard other friends sing and respectfully participated to honor the flag and our country with pride to be a part of this beautiful nation!
We also celebrated the 4th with an Ice Cream Social. Friends got their choice of toppings to share and we enjoyed our evening with family and friends!
I scream you scream , we all scream for ice-cream!!!
We wore red, white, and blue and enjoyed many projects all through the week, such as playing with playdough, making stars, squirting red/blue water with syringes etc.
Blue Room had duck eggs, out of which one hatched that week. Our week was busy keeping track of the duckling's growth and observing all that he was doing. We frequently visited our neighboring Blue Room to check the duck out. It was sooooo sweet to watch. Friends introduced themselves to the ducky anticipating that the duck will choose one of them as their mommy or daddy :)
A few friends also had a chance to babysit the duck overnight and had so much to talk and pictures to share the next day! With the knowledge that we had to send our new friend back to the farm soon, we enjoyed many moments with him!
Introduction time...
Watching it grow...
Giving it a swim...
In order to celebrate the ducky's birth, we made potato salad...
Friends chopped/ mashed boiled potatoes...
Cut tiny pieces of celery using their best fine motor skills...
Added salt, pepper, herbs and transferred everything together in a bowl to sit back and enjoy it!
Happy birthday L!
L's family was really creative and brought two different kinds of apples, peaches, and nectarines as treats for his birthday. We talked a little bit about the difference in each fruit on the plate. Later, they put the entire class to a taste test. We first had to guess what fruit we got and in the end we voted for the most liked one. L helped us with the recording and counting the highest vote. Bravo L! Overall, It was a great activity that put most of our senses to work :) We really had a lot of fun!
Keep seeing you'll around,
Hugs,
Teacher Rashida.
