Exploring the Colors of the Rainbow

The children have repeatedly and excitedly noticed the rainbows in the room, on the floor, ceiling, and on each other.  There is much to be explored about the rainbows that are in our classroom, on most mornings! Establishing knowledge about color and  the colors of the rainbow will help to  guide  our exploration.

"If you mix all the colors together you make a rainbow."
​ - Giacomo

"Orange is there. I see it It's in the middle. Between red and yellow." -Audrey

What colors do you see in the rainbow?
"I see blue, pink, red purple." - Sylvie
"I see yellow." - Jane
"I see green and orange." - Maxon

"We need yellow, red and white to make orange." Audrey
"I think we need more white." - Maxon

Making "Rainbow Green"

Cedar: "I think blue and yellow make blue." She mixes the colors "It's turning green a little bit. Its green now!

Jordan: We want to make a lighter green.
Cedar: Blue makes it lighter.
Maxon:  No. no that's not it.
Maxon decides to add white
Maxon: "It's lighter now! 

Toad goes to the Brown Room...

...And comes back

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"I don't want to add any fabric. ... I'm done." -Sylvie

Sylvie and Jane finished creating their tags  and tied them onto their cubby bags!

Digging and hanging outside after sing along!

Thank you for joining!

Rainey Room 

What a refreshing three day weekend! While we were happy for the extra day of rest, we certainly missed each other! We spent the morning catching up with our friends and sharing our favorite songs over the singalong. We led our friends in some classics like “I’m a nut” and “You are my sunshine” and then finished with a surprise french rendition of Twinkle Twinkle little star! ​

After singalong, several friends worked on rebuilding last weeks animal city that now includes a forest. Unfortunately, our “baby zebra” got lost in the forest, so most of the animal’s construction time was spent on a perilous rescue mission! ​

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Some beads that are super small and can’t go down, so I have an idea if I don’t want to tie a knot I can just put this on the needle. It makes sure nothing falls off- Jack

Documenting our Obstacle Course Materials 

Today we also took the time to discuss how and what to document for our guidebook. In our conversation, we spoke specifically about size and shapes of the materials that we could recreate in our documentations. 

We can jump over the log. I see a circle and a circle and a hole and a line - Violet 

Talking about drawing our Obstacle Course Materials
Jack: I can draw a rectangle
George: Just a marker and make it a circle
Lochie (looking at the bench):  So it has two sides in front and two sides in the back. One in of front of the standing things and then tiny cracks
Jack (looking at the bridge): I would draw it like this, just straight lines (counting one straight line, two straight line…) Theres only seven straight lines!
CC (looking at a feather): Look at these straight lines out of a straight line
Lochie: A square wood, another square wood and a green tunnel in the middle