As our whole school theme this term is ‘Friendship’, it seemed quite fitting to continue our ‘Splish, Splash, Splosh’ topic this week by reading the stories of the beautiful Rainbow Fish.  In the first story, he learns how to make friends by sharing his shimmery scales and, in the second, he decides to help a friend in trouble.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9Ae41RvnW8

We made our own Rainbow Fish scales by decorating paper plates; using pipettes to drop blue, red and yellow food colouring onto the plates and then watching in wonder as the colours mixed together to make beautiful rainbows!  Look out for our Rainbow Fish display coming soon to our welcome area…

Taking inspiration from this rainbow fish colour mixing, we also explored how colours can change in coloured water by challenging the children to ‘go fishing’ using clothes pegs to catch their fish. They were amazed to discover that different coloured fish appeared to change colour when submerged in blue water! As one child noticed, “the (yellow) seahorse had turned green!”

Later in the week, we used this growing knowledge of colour mixing when choosing colours for a purpose.  The children have been thinking about their favourite stories and retelling them through paintings for a lovely new display which you may already have spotted on our accordion wall.

“I need purple. I know blue and red!”

“I need blue for the darkness”.

We also read one of my favourite stories about an alien called Zot who travels to Earth  from his colourless world, discovering colour and friendship along the way.  It is well worth a re-read if you happen to come across it.

Finally, we have a lovely new colour table in the classroom which the children have started to explore by creating their own pictures with objects; something we call placing and arranging…

The children are clearly becoming colour experts!  Here’s a song about mixing colours that you might like to share together at home.