Using colour to decorate our rooms

Finding the right colour

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Trystan's room

Sarah's room

Sofia's room

Simon's room

The children’s knowledge and experience with colour led into a wonderful activity. Joyfully and thoughtfully, the children choose the colour and decorations that they would like to use to design their “dream rooms”. It was delightful to see them cooperate, share and admire each other’s designs.  Everyone wanted to have something different on his or her walls, something that was their own. On a small piece of paper, they used colour to draw something that they like.

 Howard “I love cars”

Trystan “I would like a blue picture” 

The rooms turned out to be very beautiful. Each room was unique and as the children mentioned before, colour can help us describe someone’s feelings and interests. 

Byron, Howard and Emilie will be working on finishing their rooms this week. 

Decorating our bodies!

Continuous assessment provides insights into students’ understanding, knowledge, skills and attitudes. A chart was made where we recorded everyone’s knowledge on how people use colour.  These are the answers that the children came up with: 

* People use colour to draw, paint, mix, decorate their bodies and rooms, describe someone’s interests, feelings, likes and dislikes.

From this list, the children showed an interest in decorating their bodies using colour. This shows a connection to the central idea “Colour is all around us and makes a difference in our lives”

Their faces lit up as we were decorating them. While looking at their bodies in the mirror, the children’s smiles grew bigger and bigger. As you see in the picture, our activity continued into a dramatic play, where their body decoration transformed them into their character.

Tints and Shades - Mixing colours

After assessing our knowledge on primary, secondary and tertiary colours, the children's interest was in mixing the primary colours together, then adding white and black to make tints and shades.

Simon "Wow, we can make millions of colours" 

Sofia "Mixing is so much fun. Look, bright purple." 

Trystan" We can keep mixing and never stop, the colour is always changing." 

We painted a circle with all the colours that we mixed and Emilie said that we could use them to "decorate the walls"; a colour-mixing mural.