What happens when black and white play together?

Play is vital to the growth and development of children. We firmly believe this at Ambrose. What may look like basic play is always purposeful and child lead. It is our job to listen and to notice patterns in play and conversation, in observation and attention. We use what we see to create valuable learning opportunities for each student. Over the past week we have observed many children focus in on colors. Colors they see, colors they know, colors they love, even colors they can make. 

What happens when we take away the "color?" 

 What happens when black and white play together?

I just used a little bit of black and almost no white with a little bit of gray and made this. - R

Looks black and white and black and I made a new color. (Pointing to each color on his paper) - E

If  you get black and white and then you get a new color.

Its black and white and you can gray it but if you mix all the rainbow colors you get all kinds of colors. - JI

I made the earth and this is St. Louis. - JL

I'm making a park. - JA

I made a bear. - A

Black bear on black paper is hard to see. - Ms. Lisa

This is his house, I moves the bear over here! - A

 

This is going to be a rainbow soon. (mixing multiple shades of gray.) - G

It's black and white like a zebra and pandas too have black and white. - D

Mine is a zombie face, zombies faces are gray. - CF

I'm making all the colors. You mixed them. 

This one is gray and this one is kind of black. - JB

This is the magic house and this is the haunted house. Vampires, witches, and ghosts live in here and princes and princesses live in here. - D 

It's getting bluer and bluer and blue... or black and white make a dark, dark, dark, dark. - C

We cannot wait to see where this study takes us. Will be study black and white or will we move towards more color? Stay tuned with the Birch Room to find out.