We were mixing. - VanSince the beginning of the year, we've been discussing - as both a teaching team and staffwide - how and when to introduce the wonderful paintbrushes and paints that were created during May's New Parent Reception. With our friends expressing so much fascination with the process and results of mixing watercolors, we decided to introduce tempera paint mixing. This led to a conversation about how many of the Brown Room's grown-ups came to St. John's to mix paints, in much the same way we did! With the children's understanding of paint mixing enriched by experiencing it for themselves, we introduced the New Parent Reception paints & paintbrushes on Friday of last week. I choose the one with the bow. - Lily The diversity in structure of each paintbrush meant that children had to adjust their technique depending on the brush that they were using. Brushes with more pointed materials at the tip, like sticks and leaves, caused children to use small, careful movements to create lines, dots - and occasionally splatter paint. Meanwhile, brushes with cotton-ball and fur ends lent themselves to full-body movement as children spread the highly saturated brush across the easel. Look, look! I made that! - William The children observe their collaborative murals, made using paints from May's New Parent Reception. P.S. Happy Halloween! Thank you to Rainey Room & Tucker Room for hosting fabulous school-wide festivities today, including pumpkin exploration, Halloween-inspired collage and construction, "potion-making" and story-sharing.
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