Today was the second day of leading story. The children seemed pretty interested by the colors yesterday, and I felt like I got a pretty good reaction today from the entire class. As I mentioned the 4 sides and corners and pointed them out, I heard someone counting "1-2-3-4" as I pointed to them. Also, I heard a couple times where a child shouted out what the square became. The example that sticks out in my mind is Kennedy calling out that that the square became a mountain towards the end of the book. I have seen evidence of Kennedy enjoying shapes at one of our specials. When the book talked about the square being crumpled and the picture showed it ripped into two triangles, Kennedy also pointed out that the square was now in the shape of a triangle. I think I am going to ask more questions about the colors of the square since one of my favorite things about the book is the vivid colors.
Speaking of colors, art went well today. I was surprised and impressed with the way that the children in the first group decided to dip the paper in the water to change the colors of the water. I know that the activity was really messy, and that water was spilled everywhere, but it was kinda fun to see them take control of the activity, and how the idea caught on. I did not see the idea repeated in the second group, but at least children like Bodhi, who didn't initially want to do today's art stayed the entire time and ended up enjoying it. I saw that both he and Kennedy saw the way the colors mixed and commented on it.
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