FIAR Co-op - Papa Piccolo, Part 1

This is a really, really sweet book about an independent alley cat in Venice, Italy who becomes a papa cat quite by accident. The pictures are colorful and detailed; just by looking at them we were able to learn a lot about Italy!



We looked at some pictures of Italian art, and talked about primary and secondary colors. Sally, who was the FIAR teacher that day, gave the children a paper palette and the three primary colors. They then mixed each primary color with the one next to it to create a new color. It doesn't matter how many times you tell a child what will happen, nothing beats actually doing it with your own hands and seeing it with your own eyes!






The colors mixed quite nicely, don't you think?!



After this the children had fun painting pictures of whatever they wanted. They painted for a long time!

Then we made spaghetti noodles for snack! (which turned out to be our lunch)


Yum!