Today as part of our art lesson we read Little Blue and Little Yellow by Leo Lionni. The story is about a couple of color blobs who mix and form new colors. This is a great book to work on color identification and to talk about feelings. In the book little blue and little yellow mix together and make green so for our art activities were centered around mixing paints and seeing new colors. At one table the children worked with Ms. Tracy and Mr. Mike mixing red, yellow, and blue on paper to see the new colors formed. The children explored this color mixing by using paint brushes, toothbrushes, cotton balls, Q-tips, and marbles. This allowed them the freedom to make their own choices, but also to work on their fine motor grasp. At Mrs. Massey's table the children came over one at a time and dipped their hands into two different colors of paint. They then rubbed their hands together to see what new color formed. Students then put their hand prints on paper to celebrate the mixing of two colors. The students were fascinated to watch how new colors could be made by mixing other colors together.
Additionally the afternoon group for the past two days has been reading another book by Leo Lionni called Inch by Inch. This book is all about measuring. Yesterday using our blocks we measured various things around the classroom and counted the number of blocks we used. Today we remeasured our favorite items and compared which ones were long and which ones were short. The students enjoyed the hand on experience.
We have started our hard core practice for the Exceptional Children's Week show. If I do say so my self the kids look fantastic already! We have been practicing with our parasols for the Glee version of Singing in the Rain. Also the sign language is coming along nicely for Somewhere over the rainbow. Mark your calendars for March 22 because you won't want to miss this fabulous experience!
