As we began the school year with an exploration of colors, textures, warmth, coolness and neutrality, we are now connecting these concepts to our self discovery provocations. We began self portraits and face painting exploration for a few weeks. We openly discussed our differences through literature and and similarities as people of an array of races and cultures.
We through these diverse books began a conversation on skin tone. We all have an array of textures and shades, unique to each individual self. We moved on from bright colored face painting to actual skin tone face paint to increase awareness on how unique we truly are and yet very much the same. We are exploring and expanding on our knowledge of color and color theory concepts.
Warmth and what makes colors warm, breaking down concepts even further for a more defined idea. Each child inquires, mixes, discovers and unfolds the layers of ones self. Truly an emergent concept that deeply develops new ideas, language and theories. We took this even a step further and discussed that through pigmentation we can truly be multiple colors, we used play dough in efforts to relate and explain this to our class. Through visuals we began a topic on how chemistry in our pigmentation can cause us to be an array of shades and textures. This is the essence of anti-bias curriculum and environments creating awareness and inclusivity in our classrooms culture. We are one race the “human race.”
Color Mixing