January 26th at Hope Town Primary School

Today we worked on learning colors. Students were introduced primary and secondary colors. How one mixes colors to get another color, and how to create lighter shades and darker shades of colors. Students worked on making their own color wheel to have as a reference. In an effort to make this fun, we worked on creating color wheel turtles, which students then decorated, and made come to life. For most students this was their first introduction to understanding color.

One of the questions discussed in the older 5-6th grade class was: What is white? What is black? These questions then generated the in depth discussion about how black is the absence of light or color, and white is all colors. We talked about prisms, and how light gets filtered into all different colors.

Students working on Turtle Color Wheels

Students working on mixing colors