Light and color theme outline
Light and color math activities:
- Make color patterns - yellow, yellow, orange, yellow, repeat
- Classify items - things that are transparent, things that are not
- Make a real graph - things that reflect light, things that don't, count how many in each row
- Make red, orange & yellow stars - sequence from largest to smallest, lightest to darkest
Light and color science activities:
- Discover light sources
- Experiment with opaque, translucent, and transparent papers
- Experiment with reflective and non reflective materials
- List of light concepts & activities for teaching concepts
- Light vocabulary
- Candle experiments
Light and color literacy ideas:
- Read "Good Night Moon" a few times to the children.
- Emphasize the rhyming words in the story.
- Bring the children's attention to the letter "G" on the book cover.
- Teach how to print the capital and lower case "g".
- Brainstorm and list (with pictures) other things that could be in the room and rhyme e.g. 'Goodnight rat and goodnight cat..."
- Create a group "Goodnight Moon" book, model on large paper.
- Have the kids create their own "Goodnight Moon" books using frame sentences "Goodnight _________ and goodnight __________ "
- Download file for "Goodnight Moon" rhyming activity.
Light and color social studies:
- Show and talk about everyday light tools (telescope, magnifying glass, eye glasses, binoculars, cameras)
- Show fire safety DVD
- Bring in visiting fireman or have a trip to the fire hall
Light and color art:
- Learn primary colors - red, yellow and blue
- Mix primary colors with white
- Make a color spinner
- Make Christmas cards with lots of glitter
- Make a light picture with a variety of yellows and oranges.
- Teach about light and dark yellow and orange.
- Make a reflection collage
- Make see through glasses
- Make Christmas decorations - Stars and moon covered in glitter
- Make sun print paper papers
Other winter holiday activities :
- Donations to the food bank
- Make holiday cards for the nursing home residents
- Bring in visiting fireman or have a trip to the fire hall
- Focus on giving to others
All science pages:
Science lessons -Read to find out what science skills your kindergarten students need to learn and what topics to teach.
Teaching science - When teaching science to young children, provide them with lots of objects to examine from the natural and physical world.
Science center - Create a child centered kindergarten science center that is easy to change and reflects the skills and knowledge that the children need to learn.
Science center materials & equipment - There are many everyday items as well as commercial science center materials and equipment that are available to teach children about science. Suggestions are listed in the three main science skill categories.
Kindergarten science fair projects - that match the kindergarten science learning outcomes are preferable. A project that represents mostly parent thinking, planning and presentation benefits the parent more than the child.
More kindergarten science fair ideas - Play with friction, air, plants, your dog and more.
Show & Tell - a springboard for science and math education - Use show and tell times to increase science and math concepts.
Light and color - teach science vocabulary such as opaque, transparent, translucent, reflection...
Winter science activities - observe the power of ice and learn about the properties of water
Apple Science - learn how tools help us and practice the skills of observation and data collection
Purchase "Goodnight Moon"
Goodnight Moon Floor Puzzle
Goodnight Moon Mini Cube Puzzle