Jr Pre K's Mixing Colours in Art

In Art Class, the Junior Pre K's created a painting while learning about mixing colours. Before we created our painting, we mixed blue paint with some red paint and watched it turn to purple. We painted red on half of our paper, and painted blue on the other half. Then, we folded our paper in half and rubbed the paper with our hand to mix the paint. While doing this we also talked about what might happen if the two colours mix. When we opened it we saw that the two colours had turned purple! We are all excited to try mixing the other primary colours next week!

 

 

 

 

Happy Blue Day!

Today was blue day at Preschool. All of the children wore blue clothes and we had a great day celebrating the colour blue! Our JK class did a special blue collage scene where they chose different shade of blue tissue paper and created a scene.

JK Science

Today our JK class did a Science Experiment.
 We decided to take our knowledge from mixing paints last week and apply it to mixing food dye. We made our predictions about how the colours would mix and then we experimented! 
We learnt that our primary colours when mixed together create secondary colours. We even tried to mix secondary colours with each other to see what we would end up with. As we conducted our Science experiment we recorded our findings used print and illustrations. 

We did a wonderful job! 

Magician!

Today Mr Scott the Magician came to visit us. We had such a great time watching the magic tricks. There was even a special bunny helper named Houdini who we all got to take a turn of patting. At the end of the show Mr Scott even taught us how to do some secret magic tricks :) However we won't be teaching you how we learnt to do it - a magician has to keep their magic secrets!

Remembrance Day

Today we had a lesson on Remembrance Day. We talked about why it is a holiday and why we honour those soldiers who fought in the war. We decided to make our very own poppy's with various materials; paints, crayons, tissue paper, and markers. We started by writing the word poppy in the center of the flower and continued to build on it until it looked like a beautiful poppy that would grow in Flander's Field.

A Colourful World with Sr. Pre K

This week the children explored colours in many ways. They each received a colourful book where they match specific items to the colour that represents them. The children are thinking of lots of different colourful things that they see on a day to day basis and it is creating great dialogue between all of them. Next, we did an experiment with food colouring and water to start understanding the primary and secondary colours. We predicted what colour would be made when we mixed two primary colours together and all watched closely to see if we were correct!