Lesson: Day and night
objectives:
1: identify pictures as night or day,
2: Name things in the picture
3: Identify things we only see either at night or during the day.
identify the sun.
4: Become aware that the sun give us light.
Trigger: We’re going to have a game. Look at the pictures and tell me if it’s day or night.
Children will say day or night as each picture is held up.
Next we will look at one day time picture and discuss what we can see in the picture. Is there anything in this picture that can be seen in other daytime pictures? Lead children to identifying the sun.
Repeat the activity first looking at one night time picture and naming everything they can see. Add a few more nighttime pictures and children should hopefully see the moon or stars in most pictures.. identify what is missing from the sky at night time – the sun.
Play a game: Darken the room. Place a lamp at one wall and switch it on. Children and adults will look at a light when we say sun or show a sun picture and turn away from the sun when we say night or show a picture of the night.
Conclusion: Sing the Sun Song and turn towards or away from the light as appropriate.