Theme – This is our first week of our new unit, Shadows and Reflections. During this unit students will explore shadows and reflections, using observations, experiments and books to learn what makes a shadow and a reflection. Through Story Time books, children hear about a girl playing by a still pond, a puppy who thinks he is a kitten, a crocodile collecting reflections in a pail, a sleepy boy who sees a shadow save a cat, and a raccoon who has an adventure with only his reflection for company.
Theme Concepts:
There must be light or there is no reflection.
Mirrors and still water reflect light well; dull surfaces do not.
If water is moving, its reflections are blurry or crooked.
Objects are opaque, translucent, or transparent.
Shadows are the dark areas made when an object blocks light.
Stories:
Play with Me by Marie Hall Ets
Raccoon on His Own by: Jim Arnosky
Small Groups:
-Language – Book Browsing and Letter chart of beginning sounds of animals for the book Play with Me
-Lowercase and Uppercase Go Fish
-Reflection Turtle Painting
-Hand Held Mirror Play using mirrors and flashlights
-Animal Memory Game- using picture cards from animals in our weekly stories
-Sorting Animals by color, texture and characteristics
Choice: -
-Easel – Painting meadow, pond, and stream animals
-Sensory– Looking for reflections in bubbles (reflective paper in bubble solution)
-Dramatic Play – Dress Up with mirrors
-Art – Reflective-Paper Collages
-Yellow Table- Frog Log Song Props
-Writing Center – Drawing and writing about animals
-Puzzles – Animal Puzzles (Raccoons, crocodiles, grasshoppers, and fawns).
-Blocks – Construction Zone
Songs, Word Plays and Letters
Five Green Frogs with child made props
Eentsy, Weentsy Spider
Bingo – with the word Snake
Whose Reflection is in the Pool?
Little Letter/Big Letter Chant
The Turtle
Five Little Fishies
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