EXPERIMENTING WITH COLORS!

Dear Parents,

We introduced our unit on colors by reading The Color Book by Dayle Ann Dodds, Color Zoo by Lois Ehlert, A Color of His Own by Leo Lionni, and Red, Yellow, Green, and Blue by Laurie Rosenwald.  


On Wednesday, the children made marbleized paper by covering a plate with shaving cream.  Then they used eye-droppers to add various colors to the shaving cream.  The children stirred all the colors together and then pressed a sheet of paper on top of it.  Finally, we scraped the shaving cream off, and as a result, beautiful  marbleized paper appeared.

On Thursday, we practiced writing the letter "L."  Some of the L words that the children came up with were:  Lion, Lemon, Lizard, and Lukas.

We continued our color theme by making salt paintings.  First the children swirled glue onto their paper and then poured salt over it.  Finally, the children added various color of liquid watercolor with eye droppers.  The results were spectacular!  

Other fun areas in the playground:

We found two toads in the playground : 

Music with Lisa:

t. She brought in        

In Mandarin, Ms. Peishuan taught the children the word hat. She brought in a few of her own in various colors  and the children passed them around while practicing saying the new word “hat.”  At the end of her lesson, she stacked all of her hats on her head and we all counted them in Mandarin.

戴帽子

dài mào zi

帽子

mào zi

hat

cap

戴帽子

dài mào zi

to wear a hat

 yī / 一

one

èr / 二

two

sān / 三

three

. She brought in a few of her own in various colors  and the children passed the

 We ended our week by doing a science experiment on capillary action, or in other words walking water.
~First we placed 6 glasses on the table.
~Next we added water and food coloring to every other glass.
~We then folded 3 paper towels in half 3 times.
~Dipped the paper towels into each glass.
~ We waited 10 minutes and then checked.
Ask your child what happened next. 
We learned how to mix colors.   We now know that red and yellow makes orange, red and blue makes purple, and blue and yellow makes green.

Reminders:  
Please send your child to school with proper utensils
for lunch and afternoon snack.

Please make sure your child has at least 2 complete sets of clothing in their cubby.

Love,
Ms. Bonne and Ms. Denise