Little Yellow, Little Blue

Date: 10^th June 2013

Day: Monday

Time: 4:30-5:30pm

Class: Starfruit

Theme: Colours

Teacher: Teacher Yeong

Little Yellow, Little Blue

We revised the songs and rhymes that we sang last week. The children are getting better and better in the lyrics and the words. Then we go into the colour mixture.

Teacher: Did you find out which 2 colours mix together we shall get green?

Teng Hong: Black and white.

Yee Jie: Yellow and red.

Teacher: Why not we mix the colours and see if we can get green colour or not?

The school had run out of black colour. So we can’t do the black and white. Therefore, I started with yellow and red. Before the children see the changes of the colours, they still insisted that it will turn green. By the time they saw the colour turned into orange, there’s a “wow” across the room. The children said: “It’s not green, it’s orange.”

Then I hinted them there’s yellow in green. Yee Jie suggested we try yellow and blue. So I mixed the yellow and blue colour together and it turned out to be green! The children were so happy to see the green colour.

After that, there’s some red and blue left, so we mixed that colour to see what colour it turned out. Apparently, it turned out to be quite a dark purple. Yet, some of the children argued it looks like brown.

This is how our colour mixture looks like. 

Before the class ends, I showed them a video clip about “Little Yellow, Little Blue” by Leo Lionni. The children were so excited when they saw the yellow mixed together with the blue and it turned into green.