Patterns Around the House

I've been continuing to explore the possibilities with our new ipad app, Pic Collage. Today Cadence and I had some fun scavenger hunts around the house looking for, and finding patterns. We played the game this way. First I secretly found some interesting patterns from around our house and compiled them using the Pic Collage app. Here is a screen shot of what it looked like:

Cadence was able to search the house and see if she could spot where the patterns were. Her initial observations of the patterns were really interesting to hear. She noticed how size, shapes, and colours repeated and expressed what the pictures reminded her of.

It was so much fun to search the house and compare objects to the patterns and see if her guess was right!

When she had found all nine patterns we switched and she created her own pic collage with nine patterns that I had to then find. It was a great way to infuse patterning with technology and help us to become more comfortable using the ipad!

Deconstructing Colours

The kids have been very interested in colour mixing lately and instead of mixing primary colours together to get a secondary colour, I thought we'd deconstruct secondary colours by diluting them with water.

Cadence wrote the name of a colour on a piece of paper towel and we placed it on top of our light table (that was protected with a clear plastic bag). She slowly dropped water using a pipette on the marker and after many drops, the colour became diluted and we could observe the individual colours that had been used to create the secondary colour. They are hard to see in the photos, but as the green diluted we could clearly see the yellow and blue that had been used to create the shade of green separate from each other.  We tried this with many different colours - even black!

I thought it would be fun to document our exploration using a new app called Pic Collage that has lots of potential for sharing information and student creation in the classroom!