A Day on Rainbows...

The weeks until our move to Georgia are passing quickly! We only have 3 weeks left here in California and are beginning to pack up our lives to move across the country. We are so thrilled to be moving, and so sad to be leaving this wonderful town.  I will miss our friends so much!

This week Mother Goose Time is wrapping up our Bubbles, Boats and Floats theme with the wonders of water. Our favorite day this week was spent on rainbows! The kids and I had so much fun learning about the colors of the rainbow and how it is formed.  This day in particular had them practicing the names of their colors and doing a lot of team work.

Our first activity called for teamwork in building their own rainbow. We first discussed the order of the colors and the Roy G. Biv clue to help them remember. We also sang a rainbow song that the kids already knew.

I found the teamwork part of this portion was especially difficult, considering their ages and development level. There was some bickering during the construction of this artwork, so I stepped in quite a bit to help them make their rainbow. We talked about the importance of working together and each of them doing their part. It turned out so cute!

Next was our "Make and Play" art project in which the children each made their own rainbows.  This gave me the opportunity to talk about the components of what makes a rainbow. In order for a rainbow to shine there must be clouds, rain and sunshine. Jonathan did this entire project on his own: cutting, gluing and drawing. I am so proud of him! Hope definitely needed help, but she also did very well!

I had the kiddos watch the song we sang earlier on YouTube and they sang along. I also read them the story of the first rainbow... The one created by God in Noah's Ark. The kids LOVED this story!

Next came an activity where the kids did some roll play with some characters from a book. Mother Goose Time provides these really sweet books about Forest Friends and how they learn responsibility and other character traits. This story had the children pretending to pick up garbage out of the river and acting responsibly. Such a cute story and so fun for my kiddos to act it out with the little paper characters provided by MGT.

Our last activity was matching the water-themed, paper dominoes provided by Mother Goose Time. This activity also required some teamwork to get the pieces all in order. I was so proud of how they did! Of course, this was at the end of our learning time, so tempers and attention spans were a bit short, but overall, they did very well. At the end, we counted all the tiles.

 Thank you, MGT, for another great day in homeschool preschool!