We had a great start to our day with tag games, Learning Commons, Music and reading!
Montessori period was busy with lots of math games, writing and work in our Learning Journals describing our sorting groups we made yesterday.
After celebrating Leyah's birthday, our class looked at pictures of different ways colours help give us information. We discovered that colours can help us know many things:
-identify variations of fruits (red delicious apple vs. golden delicious apple, lemon/lime)
-tell if foods are ready to eat (a green banana is not ready, brown is over ripe, but yellow is perfect)
-foods of certain colours contain certain vitamins ie. orange veggies have carotenoids
-animals use bright colour to show they are poisonous
-leaves change colours in autumn
-flags use colours to identify signals or countries
-boats have lights to starboard and port sides
-our class notebooks can be identified by their colour
-money can be recognized by its colour
We discovered that red is an important colour. Red catches peoples' eye and grabs our attention. Artists use red to show emphasis in paintings and safety equipment often is red or bright orange to be very visible:
-fire hydrants, stop signs, signal lights
-protective safety vests, life jackets, fire trucks
Red also shows heat like on a hot element or on a fire.
Look around your house and community. How are colours used to help us get information? We will share some ideas next Wednesday.
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