Some of Our October Documentation

We've been posting lots of documentation on our board in the classroom and are just getting into the swing of adding it to our blog!  We're hoping to start doing it more regularly to shorten our posts :) Regularly in the classroom, we stand in awe of the ideas, interests, and activities that the children initiate or build on.

One of the food connections we made was using our food drive materials for sorting and incorporating graphing into making a decision about something to bake as a class.  We are constantly pulling the math curriculum into our daily explorations and the embedding it into the interests of the children.  Please click on the image to see it in larger form.

We began our month with lots of nature mixing and the mixing had carried over into exploring colour.  We are amazed by some of the names that children have given colours they create such as ocean, pickle, golden, peach, octagon, seaweed, red of the raspberries, and inside of the sea.  We also began to explore texture that can be created in colour.





Here are some of the conversations we overheard during mixing.  Notice the richness of the language (literacy), the sharing of observations and planning of investigations (science), the sequencing language (math), and the clear capability of your children.  Please note we use initials for privacy when posting online.

Colour Mixing Conversation

“We put some blue in and it turned blue.  Then I put in yellow and HSC put in red and it’s purple!’ - IRB

“Look!  I made it with blue and red...and water.” - LL

“I’ve got three containers.” - MB

ET is trying to get red colour into a clear cylinder.  

“Oh ET!  I have a plan to get it in there.  It’s gonna make more red paint!” - JR

JR pours the water from the cylinder into the red paint container.

“I think I’m gonna put water in and then paint.” - LO

“I’m gonna put paint in first and then see what happens.” - MB

“I made a different colour.  It was bright orange and now it’s a little bit duller.  I used a little batch of blue in there.” - AT

“I am a zombie!” - JM (paint on hands)

“We’re mixing a potion together.  We’re helpers!” - LW

Some children were disappointed the water ran out.

“I really found water!” - BR (near a puddle)

“It turned!  Where’s red?  Almost turning (as he stirs).  It turned red!  More blue!” - EM (L)

There are many rich discoveries that have taken place this week in the classroom and we are eager to share them with you next week.