June 3: Friday, Sensational Skin Color Day!
Last time, we had a Funky Hairdo Day and today, we talked about our skin color and added some sensational skin colors on our group art! We also invited a teeny weeny friend from Nanako’s herb garden🪴 Here is what happened…
Wacky/Funky/Quirky Hairdo
Using lots of fun materials such as color tissue paper, glitters, craft sticks and sequins as well as dot markers, we decorated around a drawing of a girl on ONE piece of paper and a boy on another piece of paper. Although John was sitting beside the table, we were each the boss and we decided which colors to pick and how to place all the materials 👩🏻🎨
Play-dough and Fresh Herbs
With a new batch of homemade play-dough, we made our hands so busy making so many creations: “cookies,” “gyoza,” “iceｰcream,” “Mickey Mouse,” “pizza,” and “apple cookie” 😋
Flower Arrangement
This morning Shelley brought down a floral foam and suggested that we re–use it in our play. What a wonderful idea for a sustainable future! So we moved one table outside on the balcony and together with Erika, we enjoyed arranging some flowers as 😙 Buds florists 🌹
Rainbow Sensory Blocks and Animal Figurines
We had a lot of fun using the blocks in various ways. Some friends had a serious discussion on the effect of the blocks with Liezel. S took a purple block and explained, “If you look here, you see everywhere purple!” Other friends may not have used their words but equally experimented on the effect and enjoyed seeing the world in rainbow colors 🌈 E and W took the challenge to make the tallest tower…until CLASH and the tower collapsed with a lot of racket ;) J took one block as a camera and click, she took a picture of E 📸
Circle Time
Once we gathered in a circle, we sang our Good Morning song and we opened up our conversation by meeting a new friend who happened to ride the trains all the way to Ohana, inside Nanako’s bag! When she was picking up some mint and thyme from her garden, she must have picked up this friend who lived inside the garden. She was so tiny that some of us couldn’t spot her, a creature with eight legs and eight eyes and who spins a web….Yes, a spider 🕷We sang Itsy Bitsy Spider in versions of tiny, normal and big size as we passed the container for better observation around all the friends.
We were presented with the two group art works which looked spectacular bursting with so many colors and textures. We refreshened our memory from last Friday reading We’re Different, We’re The Same And We’re Wonderful and how we talked about how different we can look and yet we share a lot of things in common. Today, we looked at our skin and shared our thoughts on our skin colors: green , pink, purple, red and brown. We also each got the chance to pick a color and add some skin colors on the girl and boy. What we had was a sensational blend of colors! We wrapped up our circle time with a story called A Color of His Own by Leo Lionni. The story was about a chameleon who envied all the other animals who had their own colors − parrots are green, elephants are grey and pigs are pink − whereas he always changed his color according to the surrounding color and couldn’t stay in one particular color. After-all, he realized how to be happy with its changing colors as long as he had a friend to share with ❤️
Thank you for another lovely!
Love from all the children in Buds xoxo