That was a great art class, what beautiful watercolor sunsets your
children made behind a covered wagon silhouette. I was impressed with the
colors children chose and blending methods. They did a beautiful job, very
proud of them. Most of children in the level 1 class left theirs with me
to dry so I will have these set out at the Christmas party to take home. A
special thanks to Mrs. Hood for her help in art this week. :)
We
practiced blending primary colors to create colors of the sky when the sun sets
in the evening. We read about how sunlight travels through a layer of
dust, air and clouds to reach us. This layer is called the atmosphere.
As sunlight travels, some of its colors bounce off bits of dust and air
in the atmosphere. This scatters the colors. The blue in sunlight
scatters all over the sky. This is why it it blue in the day. As the sun
sets, blue light scatters even more. It scatters so much that it
disappears. Only the redder part of the sunlight is left for you to see.
*Tried to keep the science lesson to a minimum :)
