We love to make shadows. You need light to make a shadow.
By Kindergarten Room 1
The blog post above was our shared writing for the day. The children decided what to say and helped me to spell the words. Before publishing we talked about how "kid spell" is perfect for us in kindergarten but if we are going to publish our writing, that means other people will be reading our writing. And that means that we have to use "book spell".
We spent time in the dark room again today making shadows. We learned that:
- you need light to make a shadow
- you need to be in front of the light to make a shadow
- our shadows got bigger the closer to the light we got
- in order to get rid of our shadows we had to go behind the light
After playing with shadows in the dark room, we tried making shadows using the projector and the Smart Board. I introduced two "Scientist" words to the children; opaque and transparent. We learned that a shadow is actually the absence of light. Things that are opaque make black shadows because the light cannot go through them. When light can travel through an object, it is called transparent. We noticed that some of the items we chose to experiment with were transparent but the white light from the projector went through the item (i.e. coloured cellophane) and that colour showed up on the screen. One student selected a mirror to experiment with. As predicted, the mirror was opaque and created a black shadow...but what an amazing discovery when we all noticed that the mirror reflected the light! Tomorrow we will play with reflection.
By Kindergarten Room 1
The blog post above was our shared writing for the day. The children decided what to say and helped me to spell the words. Before publishing we talked about how "kid spell" is perfect for us in kindergarten but if we are going to publish our writing, that means other people will be reading our writing. And that means that we have to use "book spell".
We spent time in the dark room again today making shadows. We learned that:
- you need light to make a shadow
- you need to be in front of the light to make a shadow
- our shadows got bigger the closer to the light we got
- in order to get rid of our shadows we had to go behind the light
After playing with shadows in the dark room, we tried making shadows using the projector and the Smart Board. I introduced two "Scientist" words to the children; opaque and transparent. We learned that a shadow is actually the absence of light. Things that are opaque make black shadows because the light cannot go through them. When light can travel through an object, it is called transparent. We noticed that some of the items we chose to experiment with were transparent but the white light from the projector went through the item (i.e. coloured cellophane) and that colour showed up on the screen. One student selected a mirror to experiment with. As predicted, the mirror was opaque and created a black shadow...but what an amazing discovery when we all noticed that the mirror reflected the light! Tomorrow we will play with reflection.
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