Latin for Littles: The Color Red

Latin with Littles: Color Green

Today in Latin class, our younger students learned about the color 

"Viridis!"

The listening stage started with reading a book about colors that had a lot of focus on green. I chose "Green Bear," by Alan Rogers. Another good book might be "Where Is The Green Sheep?" by Mem Fox. As we read the story, we replaced the English word green with our Latin word viridis. 










Afterwards, we had a worksheet. We sat down and went through all the pictures and decided which pictures are viridis or another color. Some were of the opinion that cats should be viridis, but we chose to leave it for today. They were given a green crayon and then colored their viridis items. 

We then took our lesson to the tactile stage, we got our hands messy and used viridis paint. They had to say the color for me as we made their handprint. The handprints will be cut out and used as grass for a bulletin board on our Latin colors. 

Lastly, we went outside to the playground and found items in our world that are viridis. I would count off and then they would dash to touch something and call out "VIRIDIS!," as they touched the item. They also collected items from around the playground that we recognized as viridis. 

Storytelling Through Art and Pictures

More Cave Art

I took pieces of cardboard, wet it down and wrinkled it, then let it dry over night. The kids sketched their art and then finger painted over it. When it was dry, they outlined their figures with black pastels. This went in to a storytelling book we have been creating in Summer Camp classes.

Storytelling Through Art and Pictures

Stained Glass Windows

Last week we began discussing different ways stories have been told throughout history. Colored glass was around long before the Middle Ages and has been found in excavations of Roman territory. In the Middle Ages, schools were not as prevalent, and often a student was sent to a Monastery to get their education, but this was obviously for those with financial means. So a large portion of the population was unable to read of write. They could, however, understand pictures. The church often depicted biblical stories and accounts on screens, murals, and in their windows. 

The students are creating a book of their many creations about storytelling and kicked it off with this stained glass project. 

How it's made: 

I took a stained glass coloring page and printed it onto an overhead projector page. The students then colored their clear pages with sharpie markers and laid it on top of some crinkled foil. I created a little frame for the window with some card stock. 

I then created a little booklet to go along with it that contained their historical information. 

We then created our own stained glass, sun catchers to complete the days lesson. 

Storytelling through art and pictures

Native American Art!

Last week and this week, the kids and I have been working on different forms of storytelling. We concentrated on Native American art and cave art. Today we made a Native American shield and tomorrow we will create some cave art. 

I found this lesson plan online for Native Art in school: Click Here for lesson

The kids and I discussed how the Native Americans decorated everything from their clothing, teepee's, drums and so much more. They expressed anything from hunts to everyday life of their cultures through this art. I gave them the hand out with the symbols and they created a shield with the symbols. We discussed using only colors we could produce with stuff from nature and they went from there. 

Tomorrow, I will be reading the kids one of the stories I found from these sites: 

Mr. Donn's Native Americans

First People: Native American Legends

After listening to the story, they will have to recreate the narrative using cave art and the symbols we will discuss tomorrow. 

I will post more pictures tomorrow with our cave art adventures! Many thanks to a teacher-friend of mine for giving me this idea.