This week, the Forest Dreamers have been feasting their eyes on all the colors of the rainbow! While some colors, like green, are easy to find, a color like orange takes a little bit of extra hunting! This lesson speaks to our previous week when we talked of small details. Some things that look brown, actually have some orange in them! Some things that we didn’t even think had colors actually did (like lichen blue!)
Our week started with a color hunt. We searched the amphitheater for each color. We soon realized that the amphitheater is a really difficult place to find colors other than green and brown. It took a stealthy eye to find them all… and with group effort, we did! Ms. Sophie had a really great idea that we should rival Crayola and come up with a new signature color. We each mixed our own special blend and came up with our own special color. It was a very relaxing experience!
We then learned of the Legend of the Seven Trunked Tree! Legend has it, that if one cuts through a special spot near the meadow, they can enter the seven trunked tree and magically appear on Bauer Preserve’s property. We had to do a bit of bushwhacking, but lo and behold! We found the seven trunked tree! The class even wrote a story about the journey:
Skunk Cabbage Stink
by Forest Dreamers
Through the stream and into the skunk cabbage
We walked through a lot of prickle bushes to get to the seven trunk tree
It was hard!
The ground was squishy wet
We picked purple flowers- Whoops! It was Ms. Paula’s fault
It was really really awesome.
Thursday’s chill kept us from frolicking in the meadow as we had planned. I’d say it was more of a slosh and muck through the meadow. At the Ed Hut, we read a story called My World of Color by Margaret Wise . We each chose a color that spoke to us and created a simile about the color.
Green as a Ms. Paula’s jacket
Purple as a bag
Yellow as an Ethan and Oliver
Red as a rose
Orange as her flowers
Brown as a tree trunk
Gray as the sky today
We gave dead flower heads new life by painting them with beautiful colors for our mothers as well as a snazzy little mad lib letter! Together, with friends and family, we are a rainbow of people with a rainbow of talents and interests. Ms. Sophie and Ms. Paula hope that each one of you will shine your colors wherever you may roam (we also hope that you shine extra brightly for mom on Sunday!).
Shine on, Forest Rainbows!
- In the legendary tree!
- Found almost every color
- Color hunting
- “This stick looks kind of orange”
- Finding different colors in the rocks
- Mixing her signature color!
- Mucking
- Painting her boquet for mom
- happy girl!
- In the seven trunked tree
- Finding her colors
- Red as a rose!
- Got cold and had to borrow Ms. Paula’s other jacket!
- Adding to color list
- Happy trees!
- It’s hard to find the colors out here
- He found blue!
- In the special tree
- Mixing his color!
- Which color speaks to you?
- Our findings
- Miss Artist!
- We are about to make a path!
- Through the skunk cabbage
- Meadow wandering!
- He got through the path!
- Yellow twins picked the yellow scarf!
- I spy a yellow Forest Dreamer!
- Mixing his masterpiece
- Best Buddies!
- She’s creating this color!
- Looks kind of moss green
- Painting for mom!
- Group of kids in the tree!
- Muddy day!
- Kids in the Cabbage!
- Painting her favorite-tulip poplar!
- Pretty yellow!
- Prepping her journal
- Pretty purple flower!
- Let’s go through the sea of cabbage!
- Wet and painting!
- How nice for mom!
- Ms. Paula telling tales!
- There they go!
- It’s hard to bushwhack!
- She loves art!
- Working hard!
- Let the artist work!
- He loves sliding!
- Look at this cool natural vernal pond!
- Silly!
- I spy a forest dreamer in the 7 trunked tree
- Down he goes!
- Leaving human tracks!
- Painting what looks like a beautifully colored sunset
- wahoo!
- We should write a story about all the mud this boot has seen!
- Ms. Sophie showing about mixing colors!
- Go FD go!
- A tiny wild strawberry!
- Our coolest place to play!
- Ms. Sophie in the lead!