Rainbows

Today we learned about rainbows and our new letter of the week, the letter "x".

• We made a rainbow by using a glass vase filled with water and a small mirror inside.  We shined a flashlight on the mirror and saw a beautiful rainbow!  The children loved it!  We talked about how rainbows are formed by the sun shining through raindrops or mists of water.
• We talked about the colors in a rainbow, Roy G. Biv (Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, and Violet).
• We read the book Rainbow Fish, and talked about sharing and being good friends.
• We listened to a couple of songs about rainbows, "Somwhere Over the Rainbow" and "The Rainbow Connection".
• We painted pictures of rainbows with rain drops.  The raindrops were made with a medicine dropper dropping several dots of light blue paint on the paper and then the children each had a straw and blew the paint droplets to make them look like raindrops.

• We traced the letter "X"