So as you know we completed our color unit last week. I have seven weeks worth of documentation that tells me different things children are interested in but so far […]
Color Celebration
Today we pulled out all the stops to end our color exploration. We played Brown Bear eye spy as the song played. I could hear some of the kids counting […]
56 degrees and holding
We came outside around 10:00 am and it was still pretty chilly. I checked and it was 56° . I told the kids that fall must be arriving on time. […]
Mud. It’s Brown
Some days just calls for veering off the path of the curriculum. Early this morning Randy and the kids added fresh dirt to our dirt pit. It was at that […]
Brown Bear Brown Bear
If you ask the kids I would guess their favorite part of the day was sorting M&Ms onto the characters of “Brown Bear”. Rarely do we have candy but sometimes […]
Messy Colors
Today started with a bang and Randy fell down the steps. He was carrying breakfast down and missed the last step and landed in the floor. Of course I was […]
That’s a little shady
Today I introduced the word hue. Hue is a color without a shade or tent. Shade is a color mixed with black and tiny is a color mixed with white. […]
International Dot Day
September 15 is International Dot. day. This day is celebrated around the book called “The Dot “ by Peter Reynolds. “The Dot” is about a young girl named Vashti who […]
Colors in nature
Today we took a walk in the neighborhood with color swatches in hand looking for shades of colors that match. As we looked at nature we talked about colors that […]
Splitting Black
We’ve done a lot of color mixing and we’ve learned that you make different colors when you combine primary colors. They know that green can be made by mixing blue […]