Fizz Boom Read!: Colors

June 3, 2014

Colors!!

A storytime devoted to the SCIENCE of colors!

This is the first official week of Summer Reading for 2014! Our theme this year is "Fizz Boom Read!" which is a science based theme. So we put our super science thinking caps on a came up with 9 weeks of (what we hope will be) super fun!

Books:

Where is the Green Sheep? by Mem Fox

Monsters Love Colors by Mike Austin

Mouse Pain by Ellen Stoll Walsh

Songs:

Opening Song: Where is Thumbkin? - Kimbo

Song 2: Skinny-Marinky-Dinky-Dink - 100 Singalong Songs

Song 3: Dance Your Fingers / Clap Along With Me - Wee Sing For Baby

Song 4: Put Your Little Foot - Wee Sing Fun N Folk

Song 5: Let Everyone Clap Like Me - Wee Sing in the Car

Song 6: Shake My Sillies Out - Raffi

Song 7: Wheels on the Bus

Song 8: Mr. Sun - Raffi

Felt/Magnet Board:

Because we noticed last week that doing a magnet board towards the end of our program helps the kids refocus, we decided to give it another try this week. So! We pulled off TWO magnet board this week.

We started with a rhyme called "Mixing Colors" which I found at loving2learn.com. It goes:

Red, blue, and yellow

all standing in a row.

I mix them together

and this is what they show.

Orange, purple and green

these are the colors

that can be seen.

So, I had Red Blue and Yellow in a row and then I showed what happens when we mix the colors together:

Our second magnet board was What House is the Mouse In? We ask "Little Mouse, Mouse are you in the (color) house?" and we pull of the houses until we reveal which house the mouse is in!

Of course the house is in the last house you call out, but they don't need to know that!

Experiment: 

Yes! Yes! In the spirit of our Summer Reading theme we did a little experiment. Our experiment came from the book How to Make a Liquid Rainbow. I thought the "rainbow" part of it would be cool with our colorful theme. 

 

Now, it's supposed to look the the cover: a series of bright, happy, colorful layers that DO NOT MIX due to their various densities. I used the ingredients listed: corn syrup, dish liquid, water, oil, and rubbing alcohol. Apparently I did something wrong or my ingredients didn't get the memo because my rainbow turned into the black blob below:

So I did a little tweaking and used the three layers I knew without a doubt would not mix: corn syrup, water, and oil. I colored each layer to make them easier to distinguish. PS - Did you know you cannot color cooking oil - they color just forms little droplets that don't mix in with the oil. I learned something new!

I colored the corn syrup blue and the water red and was forced to leave the oil alone. And it made this: 

So I asked the kids "What will happen if I mix this up? Will the colors mix and make a new color or will they separate back out and make three different colors again?" The kids were pretty excited to see and, of course, the layers separated back out after I shook the jar. Not too bad for not being what I expected!

Craft: 

We made a very prettyful rainbow this week! It was a prepared kit (thank goodness) and we had only just enough to pass around! The direction were a bit confusing, but the kids produced some beautiful crafts!