Making a Star Wars Book

Since our super hero book was such a fun idea and he was really eager to do it I thought "Hey why not a Star Wars book?" knowing little boys as well a month later super heroes are no longer the obsession but not it is all about Star Wars!! As an avid "Hey you want to draw with me?" to his answer of "Sure!" followed by a one line scribble as he says "I'm going to go back and play now" He needed a little inspiration to get him to really think about what he is drawing. So based on his interests I thought this would be a great idea to really show his imagination in a way he was interested in doing. He eagerly sat down and got to work. I had printed some of his favorite characters from the movie by googling "Star Wars coloring book". Then I shrank the pictures and printed them out. Each character had their own page and their own part in the story EXCEPT for C3PO and R2D2 because everyone knows and I quote "They are always together talking". He was able to practice his writing skills and letter sound recognition as we worked together on what his story was about. Many characters face hard battles against the evil Darth Vader and General Grievous! It was a very fun time and now we have a book written by him to read whenever he wants. 

Some of what we learned:

-Letter recognition

-Sound practice

-Fine motor skills enhanced

-Enhanced vocabulary 

-Color recognition

-Recollect of characters uniform colors

Ice and Color Water tub - Mixing with pipettes

This was a pretty cool sensory tub experience. Using a small personal tub I filled it with ice and a small amount of water. I then added four different colors of water color. Using the pipettes he mixed the colors together and created new colors. He also enjoyed trying to stack the ice cubes and knocking them down by squirting water on them. What I thought was super cool about this tub was because of the ice it took the colors a long time to mix together, so it was not a sudden change from their solid color state to a brown like color like most times when you are mixing colors. This really gave him an idea of what different colors you can make by mixing as the colors did not mix too fast. Even when all the colors had spread out the ice still seemed to separate the colors enough to notice where each color met another. Watching the ice cubes slowly melt and the water level rise helped us comprehend the idea of solids vs liquids. Very simple and easy water tub!

Some of what we learned:

-Color recognition

-Color mixing

-Experimenting

-Fine motor skills enhanced

-Temperature recognition

-Comparing 

-Sense of volume

-Comprehension of solids vs liquids

Two different colors piped up from two different spots to compare the colors. 

Colors still separated from the ice. Making bubbles with the pipettes.