On Tuesday we welcomed R week and due to our 2 snow days, merged some Q things in. Grandma Bonnie set up a Quilting Corner for children to see and help with a real quilt full of rainbow colors! Children had the chance to choose which square they wanted to help fill and then got to help Grandma Bonnie sew it shut. What a treasure this quilt will be! I am so grateful they had this opportunity…thank you, mom.
Roy G Biv, our new Alphabet Friend, is getting their stripes in ROYGBIV order (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet). We have a ramp for playdough balls and rocks to balance. Our dancing scarf rainbow quilt is back in the classroom for colorful play with our rocking boat (and brooms for pretend oars!). We’ve got five Golden Letter friends this week: two of them came to school this morning and another in the afternoon! Happy Golden Letter Day, Ruthie, Rory and Rex! Read on to find out about a robot friend whose name starts with R…she’s back this week!
Our Coping Skill is Rainbow hunt. By taking time to look around for specific colors, we come back to the present moment. This can be done anytime, anywhere and can also be a gentle distraction technique.
Our Clean Up Song this week is a reggae version of Row, Row, Row Your Boat and we welcomed back Rosie the Robot! She’s made out of cardboard boxes and fits on top of our garbage can. Since the garbage can is on wheels, Rosie can go anywhere in the room to help collect our trash. Thank you, Rosie!
Conversation Starter: Snack Time
Morning class: Thank you to Golden Letter friend Ruthie for rice chex cereal, red raspberries and raisins (which she informed us will help us poop!). We had very busy snack stores.
Afternoon class: Thank you to Annie for edible rainbows! We had baggies of fruit loops and marshmallows to make rainbows that we could eat! Then we glued the papers into our journals.
Conversation Starter: Story Time
What kind of pet does the little girl in our book have?
A turtle named Myrtle. We watch a little girl discover new colors as she fingerprints including her own beautiful skin color! We easily practiced our Coping Skill by finding rainbow colors.
After Story Time we used smelly markers and the big rainbow marker:
Conversation Starter: Project Time
How did you get the lines on your project?
With a Q-tip! Since we missed last Tuesday, we added a Q thing to our rainbow roller art.
This project is called gel printing (or gel press or monoprinting with a gel plate). It is a form of printmaking that involves applying paint to a gel plate, drawing designs and then pressing paper onto the plate to transfer the design.
Conversation Starter: Circle Time
What did you do with the Show and Tell things?
We put them into color groups (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, black, brown, white and pink). Since most items were more than one color, we determined what there was most of. If there wasn’t a clear main color, the person who brought it got to choose which color grouping it went in or if it had multiple colors, it got to go in the rainbow pile!
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so inspiring. Thank you for sharing… absolutely magical!