In honor of St. Patrick's Day, we spent the week learning about Rainbows! We learned that the smallest part of a rainbow is purple and the largest part of a rainbow is red. We also learned another name for purple---Violet!!!! We practiced our Sight words by making a small rainbow from handprints. First we had to put the hands in the corret order from blue to red. Then we had to 'read the room' to find sight words we knew and write one sight word on each hand!
Look at the Rainbow Of Sight Words we created!
On Thursday, We were scientists and We experimented with color!
We found an experiment that we wanted to try out.
Our experiment was to find out what happens if you mix food coloring with milk and dish soap
Next we added the dish soap:
Look what Happened!
WE MADE A MILK RAINBOW!
We read these books and found out what happens when you mix colors:
Then we practice Mixing Colors with our own paints:
Here are some things we found out:
L--- said "if you mix red with yellow, you really do get orange."
T---said 'I mixed red and blue and got purple!"
Z--said "I mixed red and yellow and made orange"
M--said " I loved mixing the colors"
Z--said "All the colors mixed in my water and made brown"
W--said '"I had to add more color to mine before it changed"
A--said " I like to paint"
D--said " I made purple"
T--said "It's fun"
S--said "I had to add more paint then I made green"
T--said "My favorite is purple"
L--said " I made orange, green, and purple"
Z--said "I made a rainbow"
B-- said "I liked making purple"
We wondered what would happen if we mixed something other than paint, so we used oil pastels!
We read the story Little Blue, Little Yellow by Leo Leonni
and then mixed yellow and blue oil pastels(they looked a lot like crayons) to make our own color dots:
On Friday, We made Rainbow Milk for our snack!
We decided which color we wanted, then chose the right food colors that would make that color. After we made our milk, we made a "real" graph to see which colors we made. Here is a picture of our Rainbow Milk Graph:
As you can see,
5 of us made Purple Milk! That's Most of us!
3 of us made Green Milk AND 3 of us made Orange Milk! These are the same amount, that's equal!
2 of us didn't mix colors to make their milk!
We made Colorful Milk Mustaches!
Mine is green and Mine is purple!
Watch what happened during our experiment:
First we gathered our materials: food coloring, milk, and dish soap:
Then we added drops of color around the edges of our milk:
What an awesome learning event! Keep me posted.
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