Colours

COLOURS EVERYWHERE!

The students have been exploring with colours in our classroom.  Today we read a story called, Mouse Paint.  In the story the mice step in paint and change the colour of their fur.  They each start as one of the primary colours (red, blue, yellow) and as they step in paint puddles they begin mixing the colours...

...and so did we...

Mouse Paint

"This mouse jumped in red paint."

"Over here I put blue and then I put red on top and it turned like a pink colour."

We mixed with paint....

"I used red and yellow and I made an x."

"Mine has some orange, look!"

"This is an owl...she has some yellow, some red and some orange."

"If I fold mine and mix it, I will wreck my picture.
I'm going to keep mine with just orange and just red."

We mixed with shaving cream...

"Can I have blue food colouring and yellow food colouring?"
"What colour do you think the shaving cream will turn?"
"Let's see....it's green!!!"

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"Mine is turning purple!"

"I can see swirls...there's red yellow and green!"

"Mine is turning green!"

"I have red and you have yellow...let's mix!"
The boys gave each other a high five.  Shaving cream went flying but they discovered ORANGE!

"Mine is green too!"

"I made green letters!"

High Five

"Can you see my E?"

"My blue and red made purple."

"Ahhhhhh I'm green!"

"Mine is mixing.  If you mix colours you can make new colours."

"I made an O!"

"Look at all of my colours!"

"Mine is turning orange...I put yellow and red and now it's orange!"

We mixed with water...

"I'm making ice cubes."

"Yellow and blue made green water!!!  I bet the ice cubes will be green."

We put our ice cubes in the freezer to see what would happen.

Sure enough, the water froze...and the green water did make green ice cubes.

We mixed with ice cubes...

"I am going to mix blue and green ice cubes.  Maybe when they melt the water will be greeny-blue."

"When the blue and yellow ice cubes melt, I think the water will be green."

"You are right because when you mix blue and yellow, you get green."

Many students knew that these ice cubes would melt and turn back into water.  Some children thought that if you mixed the different coloured ice cubes, you would get rainbow water when they melted.  Their faces were priceless when they discovered the change that occurred.

Curriculum Connections

Science and Technology

1.1 ask questions about and describe some natural occurrences, using their own observations and representations

2.1 State problems and pose questions before and during investigations

2.2 Make predictions and observations before and during investigations

2.4 communicate results and findings from individual and group investigations

Slime city

Slime, Slime, and More Slime...

We brought in some snails for the students to observe.  

They got right down to business observing.  

"I think this is a baby one...it's so tiny."

"Look at his eyes.  They are popping up!"

"He goes faster than I thought he would."

"His shell follows him."

"Look I can see his slime!"
"He is leaving a trail of slime!"

"To make the shell you just go around and around and around...try it."

"Do you think the slime trail is always straight or curvy?"
The students did discover that the slime trail is different all the time.
Sometimes the trails are straight, sometimes they are curvy.
Sometimes the trails even look like shapes and letters of the alphabet.

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"We made snails out of Lego.  Can you see the feelers?"

Curriculum Connections

Personal and Social Development: 

*Demonstrate the ability to take turns in activities and discussions

Language:

*Use language to talk about their thinking, to reflect and to solve problems

*Use specialized vocabulary for a variety of purposes

*Demonstrate an interest in writing and choose to write in a variety of contexts

*Demonstrate an awareness that writing can convey ideas or messages

Science and Technology

*Ask questions about an describe some natural occurrences, using their own observations and representations

*Make predictions and observations before and during investigations