Colors Week

We had a great second week of school! I feel like the students are really starting to get the hang of the "school" routines and our schedule--fantastic!

We enjoyed painting this week as part of our Colors theme. The students really seem to enjoy painting. We will definitely be doing it again! It was interesting to see the students' reactions to all the different paint colors. Some students would only use one color, or maybe two. Other students wouldn't stop painting until they had used nearly every color we had--more than 10!

 With the colors theme, we also talked about our favorite colors, and also how the different colors can make us think of different things and feel different emotions--like yellow, for example, makes most people think of the sun, and we feel happy, where black reminds us of night or darkness.


Today we talked about color mixing, and we did an experiment to show how different colors mixed together make other colors. Then the students used sponges to paint with the colors red, yellow and green.

Two samples of the painting by afternoon class.

We also talked about our names and how they are shaped. Each student was given a paper with their name written on it, a Q-tip and a small cup of paint (their choice of color). Then they painted over their names with the paint. Again, a great fine motor skills activity and also helping with name recognition.

Thanks for sharing your wonderful children with me!