Discovery Kidzone Montessori Adventures: color mixing

Weekly Kid’s Co-Op March Monet and other art

Please add your link at the bottom of this post! For Art this month our special Artist was Monet. We are studying pond life and I felt it would be appropriate to add fine art into that theme. Water Lilies by Claude Monet is my favorite piece of fine art! We worked with watercolor pencils and watercolor paper.

First we studied a few of Monet’s prints and discussed what a landscape painting was. The kids drew the water and the edge of the pond, and then they added the water lilies along with other details. They finished by painting over it with water to blend in the colors. The paintings turned out FABULOUS!!

We also made lily pads by color mixing water colors on large coffee filters. This was an extension to our color mixing work at the science table! We added cupcake liners and tissue paper flowers

Here are a few of our frog art projects from this month. We made cupcake liner eyes, paper plate mouths and self stick foam for the “sticky tongue”.

This month we also have been learning about ROY G BIV. We read a story about a Leprechaun named ROY G BIV and he was trying to build a rainbow. To extend this lesson I put out a ton of collage materials and instructed the kids to draw a rainbow and put the colors in order using any collage material they chose. Here are some of their collages. The colors, creativity and texture on these collages make my heart sing!

Rachel

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Weekly Kid's Co-Op~! Frog Colors and Magnets!
Every week we get together and combine our fun and educational kid's activities. This week I am talking about frog life science. Please link up your activities at the bottom!

This week for science we are learning about frogs. We talked about Metamorphosis and explained the life cycle of the frog. We acted out the life cycle of the frog after I showed them the frog life cycle work tray. One of our students brought in a fabulous frog science set with real eggs, tadpoles, froglets and frogs!! This is the most complete set I have ever seen!

After we studying all about frog life cycles we got real tadpoles!! We have three of them, in our science journals we drew a picture of what our tadpoles look like and wrote the date. We will make observations daily and record our observations every Wednesday. The older kids labeled the picture of the tadpole. The last thing we did with the tadpoles was research how to take care of them and what to feed them.

Our color of the month is green! Frogs are green and St. Patrick’s Day is coming up and spring is hopefully on its way. I introduced the color wheel and explained the primary colors (this was a review for them). I then talked about the secondary colors. I demonstrated how to mix blue and yellow and we discussed what color it made. Then we experimented with different amounts of drops to see what colors it made.

Our last science work this week was Magnets. The kids explored with a box of objects and a “magic Magnetic wand” to see what would stick to it. After they explored they would classify the objects. Finally they recorded their findings by drawing pictures on a recording sheet.