Rainbow Day

It was time for another special day of learning. The girls seem to love special days and after a difficult day together and a little too much yelling, I decided to turn it around and spent the evening planning and ensuring that the next day would be filled with joy. So, considering our shared love of rainbows and the potential for fun, science and art... we began. We started with learning about the colour wheel and primary and secondary colours. E knew most of this already so she became the teacher instructing the little ones. Then we took our broken, old and seemingly useless crayons and put them in muffin trays to melt and create new ones - another science lesson as E observed that they set at a low temperature and didn't require freezing. This included a small environmental lesson about considering how we can reuse and recyle items before simply tossing them away. And, a far more valuable lesson about how God takes our brokeness and ugliness and transforms it into something beautiful - a promise which has been tied with rainbows since ancient times. We followed up with clay sculpture birds decorated with rainbow feathers. Rainbow juice, frozen in layers. The girls were delighted with our rainbow apple pancakes although the cooked product wasn't quite as colourful. Eventually, the sun came out and we created our own rainbows with a glass of water, a piece of white paper and the sun shining through the window. Amazingly easy. And, finally we filled our glasses with coloured milk and experimented with sound and music - considering pitch and whether plastic or metal, depth etc altered the pitch. We finished by listening to Andrew Chin's delightful "Rainbow song" a favourite of E's (and mine) from school.