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I See A Rainbow (4 Hour Class)

For the past couple of weeks, the children have been participating in what we call “Color of the Day”. One color is assigned to each day and they look for things around their environment that match the color. When an object is found we take a picture of it for documentation. The children were quite excited when they found an object that matches the color of the day. Here are some of the things that they found:
RED

 

ORANGE
 
 
 
 
YELLOW
 
 
GREEN
 
 BLUE
 
 
 PURPLE
 
 
When we were done with all the colors, the colors of the rainbow were brought to the art table. The children were provided with red, orange, yellow, green and purple paint. They painted with some old gift cards. The gift cards were used to spread paint on the paper.

 

Georgia was very careful in following the order of the colors of the rainbow.


Nathan only used his favorite colors in making his own rainbow.
 
 
Adonis mixed a lot of colors on one gift card so he could make a rainbow with one swipe of the gift card on his paper.
 
 
Sofia made sure that the colors of her rainbow did not overlap with each other.
 


 
Here are some of our finished “rainbow” paintings.
 
Come check out our bulletin board outside our classroom to see more pictures and paintings.
 
Until next time,
Patricia
 
 
 

 
 

 

 
 







 
 
 

 

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