Light and color theme outline
1. Light and color theme 2. Light science 3. Light and color books for kids
Help children learn while having fun with light and color.
Try the following science, socials, literacy and art activities to help your students increase their understanding of light science.
Light and color 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
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