Mrs. Kelly's Class: St. Patrick's Day and Rainbows!

What a beautiful and colorful time we had this week! We started learning about rainbows on Thursday as soon as the kids arrived in the classroom. We had several color sorting activities on the tables for them to play with. We sorted different foods by color from the kitchen center, completed the color puzzles, had fun with the paint can magnetic color puzzle, and even had color coded play dough mats to sort with while cutting, squishing, and kneading dough. In the sensory bin we searched through rainbow confetti to find colorful items. Then we used tweezers to pick up each item and place it in the correct color in the sorting tray. We loved painting this week, and boy did we paint a lot! We painted rainbows carefully and worked our little brains to keep our brushes in the right path to make the shape of a rainbow. We painted a beautiful hand print rainbow for you to keep. We created rainbows out of fruit loops and worked our hand-eye coordination skills. We graphed different skittle colors on a skittle graph, yum! (Wow, I was so impressed with their graphing skills! Graphing is not easy to do!) We used our little fingers to lace rainbow pasta necklaces and even had fun during clean up time, by only cleaning up items of a certain color.

If you found a leprechaun’s pot of gold, what would you buy with it? I can’t wait for you to see the answers your children came up with! I kept this piece for your child’s portfolio. On Thursday Mrs. Kelly dressed like a rainbow, wearing lots of different colors and on Friday we made a human rainbow!!!

Here are a few photos from "Ocean" week. Oops!