As a unique tie-in to their English Language Arts curriculum through vocabulary, the fourth day of the 8th Grade's "Keep Our Spirits Up" Week also celebrated the Class of 2020 with a 20-object scavenger hunt. They built monochromatic color wheels based on Pantone's Color of the Year - "Classic Blue" - which also meant the 8th grade's class T-shirts would match! The activity incorporated vocabulary development through the introduction of several root words -  "mono" and "chrom" - and a hands-on reinforcement of "hue," a word that they explored previously  in a poetry unit. 

Every year, Pantone Color Institute selects the Color of the Year. The color of 2020 is Classic Blue, which is "a shade reminiscent of the sky at dusk." Therefore, as Holy Name of Mary School’s Class of 2020, 8th graders went on a scavenger hunt around their houses to create a found-object, monochromatic “Classic Blue” color wheel. To create the color wheel, students organized the objects into a circle, arranging them based on hue so that their circles faded from dark blue to light blue!

Check out the 8th grade's monochromatic "Classic Blue" color wheels below!

















See the scavenger hunt's activity sheet below!



Learning Standard: 

8L4B: "Use common, grade-appropriate Greek or Latin affixes and roots as clues to the meaning of a word (e.g.,  precede, recede, secede)."