Color Mixing

We began Spanish with un momento de silencio.

Alicia then reviewed with friends the names of their savanna animals. Alicia held up the card and it was up to the Sparrows to call out the Spanish words. Must say, the Sparrows did an EXCELLENT job!

Since the Sparrows have become experts on naming their savanna animals in Español, Alicia has moved on to teaching them how to say the body parts.

Nose- Nariz

Head- Cabeza

Beak- Pico

Neck- Cuello

Ears- Orejas

Eyes- Ojos

Legs- Patas

Tail- Cola

Wings- Alas

Feathers- Plumas

Horn- Cuerna

Fins- Aletas

Skin- Piel

Alicia explained that when you are speaking about an animal's legs, they are called patas, but people's legs are referred to as piernas.

The Sparrows LOVE playing Matamoscas!

After playing Matamoscas, friends sang Adios. Today it was Zev's turn to squeeze la vaca. La vaca said "Muuuuuchas gracias," to which all Sparrows replied, "De nada."

Following Spanish, we had morning meeting. Today, Millie read our daily schedule, went over the calendar and hundreds chart. Our attendance person, Natey, went over the Question of the Day, which was "What letter does yellow begin with?" All friends agreed that it starts with the letter Y.

After friends did their jobs, we gathered back in circle to read My Many Colored Days by Dr. Seuss. The story discusses colors, and how certain colors can sometimes represent different feelings and emotions. Friends went around the circle and shared how they were feeling and what color that made them think of. Some examples are:

Happy- yellow, pink

Excited- orange

Sad- blue, purple

If your Sparrow is feeling a certain way, or would just like to ask in general how they feel, you could ask them a color they are thinking of to match that emotion.

Next, we moved from the rug to one of the tables to discuss colors a little further and do an experiment! At the table were 6 jars, 3 filled and 3 empty. In the three filled jars were the colors yellow, blue and red. 

We first asked friends, "Why do you think we only have these three colors out?" Their response was a puzzled a look. We explained that these three colors are special helper colors and that they have a specific name. A friend's hand instantly went up and without any hesitation, they excitedly said, "Primary colors!" And to that, they were correct.

We explained that primary colors are helper colors that help to make other colors, and today we are going to use these primary colors to make new colors. We started our experiment with yellow and blue. We asked friends to predict what they thought would happen. Recently we read Little Blue and Little Yellow, so friends had a good idea that these two colors mixed together would make green. Each Sparrow had a turn to squeeze the dropper and put it into the empty jar. The Sparrows loved watching the color fill up in the pipette and then squeezing it into the jar to create a new color.

Together we mixed blue and yellow to make green, red and blue to make purple, and yellow and red to make orange.

Along the way friends made predictions and observations, and shouted with glee as they watched new colors form.

We concluded that primary colors, the special helpers, help to make new colors called secondary colors.

Ask your Sparrow why primary colors are so important and/or if they know what any of the color combinations together create.

During choice, friends chose to paint with the watercolors from our experiment. This was a neat and hands-on way for them to see their work in action and make real connections.

Friends are almost done creating their savanna stuffed animals! We can't wait to put them on our Sparrows on Safari display!