Mixing Colors

This morning the kids identified different shapes in the touch and feel pool. We counted the number of sides to help decide the shape's name. The shapes were also different colors. When the kids held them up to their eye the classroom changed colors. If they overlapped the colors then a new color was made.

During morning circle we talked about the calendar and practiced the days of the week and months of the year. We also practiced saying our friends names so we can ask them to play on the playground. Since we were talking about colors we sang a song to help us remember all of them.

Our story today was "Little Blue and Little Yellow" by Leo Lionni. Little blue and little yellow share wonderful adventures. One day, they can't find one another. When they finally meet, they are overjoyed. When they hug they become green. After reading the story we talked about what happens when two colors are mixed together. We talked about mixing red, yellow and blue...the primary colors. We learned that yellow+blue=green, red+yellow=orange, and blue+red=purple.

For art today we mixed two colors together to make a new color! The kids first painted blue and yellow in the small boxes. Then they mixed both colors together in the big box. When they colors were mixed we couldn't find yellow or blue anymore....now the colors was green. We learned that blue + yellow= green.

 We ended the day with a song about mixing colors. Tomorrow we are having a very special day....I can't wait for the kids to see!