February 16th, 2021

Exploring the Colors of the Ocean 

As part of our continuing research about the ocean for our eventual background project, we took time today to explore the ocean's colors. Since there isn’t enough time in the day to visit and observe the colors in the actual ocean, we made do with the second best option: watercolor. Using materials that we are well familiar with, Rainey A explored the colors and motion of the water by dripping, dropping and brushing the water over textured paper.

Brigitte: What color is the ocean?
George: Blue!
Jack: well there’s some greens
Violet: Blue! I want blue! 
George: I’m using the green because it’s my favorite color 
Marley: This is blue because it reminds me of the ocean 
George: (looking at the silver paint on his page) this looks clear to me!
Violet: I’m painting the blue sea 
Elle: I don’t want to use blue, I want light blue!

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As the exploration continued, some friends became enamored with the movement of the paint on the page. For others the experience reminded them of times when they had visited the beach.

Violet: I’m making big bubbles
George: The waves actually it looks like clear 
Marley: yeah it (the silver paint) makes this much waves
Violet: Watch the water move! I’m making polka dots
Marley: One time we went to the beach and we saw the ocean and it was wiggling
Jack: Do you know once we made a different kind of ocean. All three of us: Abby, mommy and me! Abby has mermaid print dolls and we used them for the ocean

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Now that the our oceans have dried, we will have an opportunity later in the week to layer on some texture and detail.

Mystery Reader 

Today we had our second day of the mystery reader series! We wondered all day who it could be!

Elle: Maybe it could be  my Nona and my mom!
Jack: Remember when it was my mom!
George: I think it's going to be my mom!

In the end it turned out to be Laura and Stephen Rodriguez! Big thanks to the both of them for sharing three wonderful stories about many animals real and imaginary! If you haven’t signed up yet, please do! We would love to have you!