I’m afraid to jinx anything but I must say we had beautiful playground weather this week. Going outside without snow pants and boots is a dream come true for the teachers, and today we didn’t even wear jackets. Of course, it is March in New England so I expect another snowstorm to come our way.

On Monday, the children made traffic lights. The children cut out the three appropriately colored circles. Some were able to do this independently and some needed on-on-one assistance. I encourage you to let your child practice their cutting at home. Everyone also painted a traffic light based on a sample.

On Tuesday the children painted with the three primary colors: blue, yellow, and red. It is a wonderful exercise to watch as they mix the colors and notice the new colors that are made.

Rainbows are always a favorite with the children. This week we worked with paper rainbows, felt rainbows, painted rainbows, vinyl circle rainbows, and colored rainbows. I used to think that color identification was the only skill to use when working with rainbows. But now I realize it is so much more. In addition the children use patterning skills, eye-hand coordination to place the colors in the correct order and next to each other, and memory skills for remembering the colors without prompts. The children brought our class Rainbow, Rainbow poem in the Orange folders this week in order to recite it at home. On Thursday, every one of the children recited it on their own during Circle Time. Our Rainbow poem was universally liked and it gave the children the opportunity to shine while reciting it for everyone else.