Songs and Light Boxes

Today we didn't have a particular colour to talk about, but the light box making swung into action. Many of the smaller children greatly enjoyed splashing lots of white paint about as we covered the inside of nine cardboard boxes to make a nice reflective surface for the coloured cellophane and fairy lights.

The first few boxes were finished off and looked fantastic as the colours glowed out when the lights were switched on.

The song-writing group unveiled the full song for the first time and we were all bowled over. The chorus was so catchy that I overheard many of the adults and children singing it under their breath as they went about other activities during the rest of the session.

The planning is fully underway now with the performance and display less than a month away. We divided up the song into separate lines and lots of the children spent some time illustrating a line or two each. This resulted in some colourful and highly creative pictures.

Rainbow by Freya

Red is rubies, red is anger,
Red is the king, red is the queen,
Red, red, is everywhere.

Red, red is everywhere but orange is harder to find.
Orange is an orange, orange can be cheese,
Orange can be a flag,
Orange can be on a pretty mug,
Orange can be a little bug,
Orange, orange is everywhere.

Yellow is mellow, yellow is a bee's honey,
Yellow is a beach ball, yellow is the sun,
Quite a few things are yellow.

Green is grass and green is fast,
Green is a green light,
Green is a balloon and green is great.

Blue is calm, blue is fast,
Blue is relaxed,
Blue is the sea and the sky.

Indigo and violet are flowers and berries,
Indigo, violet, indigo, violet,
Indigo is bad and good, so is violet.