Lesson 2: Warm and Cool Colors and Mixing Colors

Last week ( my first lesson) was about warm and cool colors. I didn't have permission to post pictures yet and that's why I hadn't posted. But this week, we got the approval of some of the parents to post pictures! I'm really excited to post the pictures we took. Johanna Boone is an amazing teacher. I really do look up to her. And my class, is simply the best! All the children participate and they all follow instructions very well! I'm so grateful for that! 

This week we reviewed warm and cool color and we also talked about mixing colors. We learned that even blue can be warmed up with a bit of yellow. I had them do some experimenting with color, and they all had beautiful pages with lots of different color mixtures on them! The main lesson was about subjects and predicates. Since my children are so smart, they all got it very quick. The activity consisted on picking their favorite color from those they had mixed before and use that to paint half the page. Then they would pick the opposite color from their favorite color and would use that to paint the other half of the page. They would end up with a page of a warm and a cool color. Then on one side they drew the subject of the sentence and on the other side they would draw the predicate.

I was happy to see that they were all having fun mixing colors. When it came to the drawing part, I was surprised! They draw so well! I was so inspired by their artistic abilities! 

Truly, I love my job!  I feel surrounded by giants when I'm in that class. Like Glen Keane said: "When I was young I could paint like Raphael, but it's taking me a lifetime to learn to draw like a child!"

 

And here are the pictures: