October 25th, 2018

Light, Shadow, and a Few Rainbows...
Lately, our class has been exploring light and shadow using the projector.  The children are learning and observing as the objects on the top of the projector are manipulated.  Some concepts that are developing include:

• The cause-and-effect relationship between the projector and the wall.  What appears on the wall can be found on the projector, and vice versa.
• Color mixing (when two translucent colorful objects overlap)

Palmer laughs as he tries to reach up higher and higher to touch the giant hand shadow on the wall!

In the video above, Evelyn discovers she can make purple by mixing the translucent red and blue plastic objects.  "They make purple! I make purple." She is delighted at first, celebrates, then takes the two apart, finally puts them back together.  Toward the end you can hear her say, "What happened?... It makes purple."  There is still a certain mystery to the concept that the two colors can mix into a new one.

In a few weeks, visiting educators will be coming to our school for a workshop as part of the NAEYC conference.

Today in the studio,  we decorated special books for the visitors to use for note-taking.  Collage has become an exciting medium for us, and, as seen in the pictures, the children were highly focused on their work.

We continue to familiarize ourselves with the school... When we take trips to the bathroom, we are often enamored by these clay ducks made by children from KW last year.

Ending our day with some of our favorite outdoor activities...

P.S.

Thanks to Ada and Michelle for our lovely pumpkins!