SCIENCE FUN!!
An upcoming event at school is the Science
Week…our pre-schoolers shall be head over heels in science experiments during
the five day fest.
Here are a few activities out of my
treasure chest.. Have been reading and reading, collecting ideas after ideas…
for all you teachers out there preparing for this fest.
Ideas for Water- Water Everywhere.
·
Model drinking water.Children
learn from our actions.So Teach!
·
Discuss how drinking water
makes the brain work better.
·
Provide drinking cups to the
children .Encourage them to decorate the same as creatively as possible.Let
them use these cups!!
·
Play this game- provide straws
and 2 cups filled with water.Encourage to drink till one is completely empty
and the other half full.Its an excellent activity to teach concentration on
tasks at hand as well as breathing techniques.
·
Sorting games can be played
with coloured ice cubes.Provide tongs and let them sort colour wise.Watching
the cubes melt into colourful water can be a real joy!
·
Have a demonstration on What
Happens When?
Get 2 children to drink
water from a long straw and a short straw( long straw can be prepared by
joining two or more straws.
·
Give a bag full of ice
slab.Provide with a Hard object to break/crush this ice.Talk about Force!!
Required to crush the ice.
A few books that can add
colour to your reading shelf-
Otto’s Rainy Day by Natasha
Yim & Pamela R Levy
Otto loves running through
mud puddles and catching raindrops on his tongue, but when he puts on his
slicker and red boots one rainy day, his mother is too busy to take him
outside. The disappointed boy uses his imagination and becomes a fireman as he
slides down the banister, a monkey in the jungle as he climbs up the green
curtains, and a trampoline artist on the living room sofa. Each game ends with
a crash and a boom, and his mother's patience becomes increasingly short. Otto
has the perfect solution to make it all up to her-"A great big chocolate
cake." That, of course, makes the biggest mess of all, resulting in more
reprimands and a tearful child. Finally, Otto's mom decides that playing
outside in the rain is much more fun-and more important-than work. The
realistic water color drawings are particularly effective in depicting the
youngster's imaginings, especially the jubilant monkey sporting Otto's
yellow-and-white striped socks on his apelike feet.
The Waters Journey by Eleanor
Schmid
Explains the water cycle
from precipitation through a stream into a river, a lake, and on to the ocean
and back into the atmosphere by evaporation to repeat the cycle.
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