Pumpkins (Part One) and Living Things

Our Art lesson this afternoon was all about colour! Students learned how to make secondary colours (orange and green) by mixing primary colours and then used their knowledge to paint beautiful pumpkins! First, they drew large pumpkin shapes. Then they painted with yellow, then red to make orange. They mixed yellow and blue to make green for the leaves. It was fun to see their faces when the new colour appeared! Next art day, we will finish our projects. Stay tuned!

 

Mixing yellow and red to make orange!

Mixing yellow and blue to make green.

We are learning about Living Things in Science.  Our activity this afternoon was to see how we could sort living things according to a certain characteristic.  Students were put into groups of three or four, given some pictures of different kinds of animals, and then had to come up with a way to sort their pictures.  Here are some of our sorting rules:  animals that have feathers and animals that don't, animals that can fly and animals that can't, animals that live in the water and those that don't and animals that have wings and animals that don't.