Our November portraits and self portraits are up! Come and take a peek at all of the progress we have made since September!
Painting & Our Emotions
This week we started to connect emotion to color and painting. Although only two friends have gotten to work on their canvas painting so far, our conversations have been productive.
Roger went first.
“Roger, how are you feeling today?”
“Good!”
“That’s great, I’m glad you’re feeling good. What colors do you like to use when you feel good?”
“Blue. No—green!”
And so he set to work creating his painting with blue, yellow and green. He made loops and circles as he covered the canvas.
Then it was Belle’s turn.
“Belle, how are you feeling today?”
”Happy!”
“What colors do you use when you are happy?”
“Clear. This one (white). Blue. Orange.”
She mostly focused on using blue paint, but really enjoyed watching the paint swirl together on the little palette before she applied it to her canvas. Belle used more dots and dashes and long strokes of the paintbrush while in her happy mood!
Next week we will continue exploring the correlations to color and mood/emotion and hopefully have our gallery of feelings up before the conferences next week. What colors do you associate with each emotion?
Field Trip!
This week we also had our paint-focused field trip to the Craft Studio on Duane St. First we did some free painting with a variety of different tools including stamps and rollers. Then we got to work on our aprons, with our first initial on taped onto the front. We will be using these aprons/smocks for our cooking projects this year! During the trip we also had a dance party and sang some songs with the different instructors at the studio. We love learning about new methods of painting, and seeing the kids really enjoy themselves and be free and open with materials is the best we can possibly ask for! Thank you to the chaperones who helped us out with the children during this trip- we truly appreciate all of your help!
Clay Time!
This week we did something new with our block of clay- we added water to it! This created a slick and slippery surface for our fingers (and lots of little muddy puddles for our hands to splash in). Next week we will discover how we can use this clay/water mixture to our advantage while we try to attach two pieces of clay together. The mixture is called slip. We will try to make little bowls out of clay coils and the slip mixture.
Science
Our science project this week is called “Walking Water.” We made three cups of water with food coloring: one red, one blue, and one yellow. We then twisted up paper towels and submerged them into two cups (one in the red and yellow, and one in the yellow and blue). Then we watched as the water climbed up the paper towels and started to mix in the middle where the two colors met!
Music
We continued listening to Peter and the Wolf this week and are starting to be able to discern the different musical instruments used in the composition. I feel that it’s especially helpful to be able to equate the instruments with the movements and sounds of animals, and we will continue to explore this next week before we move on to something new.
Specialists
This week we had all of our specialists!
With Ernestina & Eudenis we did the following Spanish songs: De la Cabeza a los pies, Si Estas Feliz, Familia Dedo, Bebe Tiburon, Los Colores
With Diane we made a tomato salad with green beans and chickpeas and added oregano and basil.
We had a different soccer coach this week, Coach R. We did a really fun game where we used the cones and balls to create ice cream cones and worked on our balancing skills (with our bodies and with the equipment).
We had an extra long music session with Emily this week after we got back from our field trip- we absolutely love that she asks us what songs we want to hear and allows us to move our bodies and use shakers and instruments as she plays.
Afternoon friends had yoga and karate this week as well
Bake Sale
I just wanted to thank everyone again for your support during our bake sale. We were able to raise $47 and we just placed an order for these fantastic books:
Chugga Chugga Choo Choo by Emma Garcia
I Stink by Kate McMullan
My Many Colored Days by Dr Suess
Mix it Up by Herve Tullet
Toot Toot Beep Beep by Emma Garcia
Subway Ride by Heather Lynne Miller