Tuesday Flipside

Spiral Maze with a rainbow at the end, by Henry.
A careful look will reveal many smaller spirals (writing) on the reverse.

TODAY'S ACTIVITIES
Our activities today were exactly as yesterday's only with the groups alternated. The squirrels got to make playdough while the raccoons performed exercises in movement and coordination.

TODAY'S STORY
Little Blue And Little Yellow, by Leo Lionni. The author uses abstract shapes of color to represent the characters in this story of very human emotions. Little Blue and Little Yellow are best friends who live across the street from one another with their families. They are best friends at school. Blue searches for yellow, who is lost. When he finds him he hugs him so hard that they both turn green. When they return home, their parents don't recognize them, so they cry until they turn into blue and yellow tears that rejoin into their original color forms. Blue's parents tell yellow's parents what happened and they all live happily ever after.

Aside from the simple blue + yellow = green lesson, using abstract characters can often focus our attention more acutely on the feeling of the story. Many of our students' paintings are the same way. Picasso often said, "It took me a lifetime to learn how to paint like a child again."