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We have been doing a study on Colour. The children have asked some brilliant questions such as can animals see colour? Why are humans all different colours? Who invented paint? How do we make paint? How and when does a petal on a flower get its colour? What did the Stone Age people use to paint on the cave walls? With these wonderful questions we went in search of some answers. We have done a scientific study on the herbs, spices and chalks which make good colours to paint on clay. The children found that beetroot, paprika and chalk were the best at colouring the clay. They made some wonderful cave paintings on their pieces of clay. This is a picture of our experiment. You can see we mixed flowers and leaves together to see if they would make colour. We discovered that while flowers are colourful they do not make good paint!
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We have looked at how colours affect our moods. The children found that if they had a favourite colour they perceived it as a happy colour. We will also be discussing how advertisements use colour to sell products. We are presently doing a study on when a flower gets its bright colour. As the flowers grow we will be dissecting them to see at what point a flowers petal will get its colour and we will be recording the information. Then we will question why flowers need colour.The children are learning that different animals see different colours. For example, a bull only sees in black and white, therefore the red rag to the bull theory, is not true. It is, in fact, the movement of the material that makes the bull charge.
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For Art we have been looking at the artist Mark
Rothko. His art work has a major focus on colour. We looked at how to
layer colours and how it is best to start with a light layer if you
want to end up with a dark picture and start with a dark layer if you
would like to end up with a light painting. We will also be looking
at Patrick Heron whose colours are very bright and fresh. |
