{"id":6644,"date":"2021-01-19T14:22:51","date_gmt":"2021-01-19T22:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gourlays\/?p=6644"},"modified":"2021-02-01T12:54:42","modified_gmt":"2021-02-01T20:54:42","slug":"a-color-of-his-own","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gourlays\/2021\/01\/19\/a-color-of-his-own\/","title":{"rendered":"A Color of His Own"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"A Color of his own, by Leo Lionni\" width=\"1400\" height=\"788\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Y8rab-HcTN0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>We read a delightful book by Leo Lionni called <strong>A Color of His Own.<\/strong>\u00a0 This book is about a little chameleon who notices that he does not have a color of his own like other animals.\u00a0 The chameleon is sad because he is always changing color depending on where he is standing.\u00a0 Finally, the chameleon finds a friend who teaches him that is OK to be different.\u00a0 We loved the message that true identity comes from who you are inside.<\/p>\n<p>The children wanted to create their own chameleon.\u00a0 We used one of the <strong>elements of design: line<\/strong>\u00a0 (e.g., thick, thin, wavy, zigzag, broken, spiral, jagged, etc.) to draw the background.\u00a0 Then we painted it with watercolor paint.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gourlays\/files\/2021\/01\/1A4D8AC2-F4C8-4B42-9E50-8D336BE30640-e1611093189243.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6641\" src=\"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gourlays\/files\/2021\/01\/1A4D8AC2-F4C8-4B42-9E50-8D336BE30640-e1611093189243.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Ask me what kinds of lines I used for my chameleon.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We read a delightful book by Leo Lionni called A Color of His Own.\u00a0 This book is about a little chameleon who notices that he does not have a color of his own like other animals.\u00a0 The chameleon is sad because he is always changing<a href=\"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gourlays\/2021\/01\/19\/a-color-of-his-own\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1151,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[182,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gourlays\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6644"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gourlays\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gourlays\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gourlays\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gourlays\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6644"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gourlays\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6646,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gourlays\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6644\/revisions\/6646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gourlays\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gourlays\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gourlays\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}