What a FABULOUS caper day we had today. We invited our friends from Magnolia and Sycamore to share in our discoveries and learning about colors.
How can you paint the color of you?
My brown is Beautiful
How can you paint a pattern?
Usually we have a question that guides our learning. We often call them "invitations" or "provocations" Today there was no question, but rather a statement
My Brown is Beautiful
What does your brain think when you hear that?
"Crabs are brown. This is my crab." JA
"Mountains are beautiful and brown, and my friend AS." ESE
"A bear is beautiful and brown."
"This is me." HW
Are you brown? "I'm a kind of brown. Tan brown" HW
"I think about playing with my brothers. This is my baby brother and this is me." JK
"My skin!" DM
Brown IS beautiful. We saw images of family and friends, nature and animals, and even self portraits. One friend looked all around the room and named all of the brown things he saw. We noticed there are a LOT of "stumps and logs" in our spaces.
"Logs are brown. They are cool." ESE
As we continue to explore colors we are opening our eyes to really see the beauty in all of them.
How can you paint the colors of you?
The children were set to explore color mixing today.
For some it was a challenge to look past the colors of their clothes.
For others they couldn't seem to get beyond painting with their favorite colors.
Some revelled in the process of mixing colors ALL together and creating a swirled work of rainbow art.
We also saw children sit and gaze at their faces, intently looking.
What makes each of us special?
How am I different from my friend, and yet still so much alike?
What makes me uniquely me?
Big questions and thoughts for young learners...and for adults too!
Children love playdough, and the Birch children love painting. When we paired paint with the playdough their little minds were blown!
"Paint PLAYDOUGH?!" we heard again and again. And each time, immediately followed by "COOL!"
"What does this say?" these friends asked.
I read them thed question and watched.
"What is a pattern anyway? this Sycamore friend said.
"It's red purple green, red purple green, red purple green."
Ahh, I hear you saying the same colors again and again and again.
"That's how you make a pattern."
I love watching children be resources for one another!
"I 'erased' my pattern!" GC
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