Continuing our month of colors in week 3 we worked on blue and purple.
Friends explored the colors all around us in the environment and also did a lot of hands-on activities with paint and collage work.
Friends used red and blue paint and saw how when the two mixed at different spots they could see the color purple forming. Some tried to make different shades of purple using different amounts of the red and blue paint...
Making collages using various blue and purple materials...each child was creative and each collage was unique, reflecting their personalities...
Working on a fun craft...
Here some friends decided to work on mismatch where they put the purple fish in blue water and blue fish in purple water...while some decided to go camouflage. Later we gave them green tissue papers n pipe cleaners when they wanted to make water weeds to protect their fish from predators...
Exploring purple gak...
Last month we had our Pizza My Heart field trip! The employees there were so friendly and let our kids participate the all the way from feeling the dough to talking all about baking to making our own pizzas and then eating the final product. It was such an educational trip for all of us. A very special "thank you" to all the parents who drove and to everyone at Pizza My Heart on Blossom Hill in San Jose near Oakridge Mall!
The last week of the month we focused on rainbows. Friends immediately started spotting things and materials in the classroom that had some or most of the rainbow colors! Depending on their choice of materials, friends worked on whichever activities interested them the most.
Rainbow colored shapes...
Creating a rainbow collage...
Rainbow color marble runs...
Rainbow color magnets and dominoes...
Rainbow color frosting which we made out of shaving cream and children designed a cake by further adding natural materials....
Adding rainbow color candles...
Writing/patterning with colored dry erase markers ...
Weaving rainbow color mats...
Along with the rainbow week, we culminated that month of colors by wrapping up with 'making sunsets' activity which involved the use of most of the warm and cool colors. Here children experienced how colors are warmer near the sun and get cooler as you go further away. We lined the colors up on the white sheet in order. Children got a chance to work with thick brushes and oil pastels too. Later they drew the dark horizon line and finished up with the bright firey ball -- the sun!
Teachers worked to compile all the children's monthly activities geared towards the colors theme to put it together in a book. In the end, friends made the cover page of their 'COLORS' book by working on some given prompts...
It was such a lively and colorful month at Creative Minds and together we made sure that we everyday for us was as beautiful as the rainbow!!!
Keep seeing you all around,
Hugs,
Teacher Rashida
