Hi, for my junior infant class I would choose the activity set , the sun and shadows activity. I would choose the sun activity initially to start with. We would start with a classroom discussion about Day and Night to assess what the children know about these two concepts. I would then show the children a picture stimulus of day and night and ask questions about how they know it was day and night. And record some of the key language used.
We would then play and day and night game using some hoola hoops and picture cards. Over one hoola hoop is a picture of the sun and over the other hoola hoop is a picture of the moon. The children would choose a picture card depicting different activities we do during those times or pictures associated with the sky at those times. The children would then put the picture in the right hoop and say why.
We would conclude the lesson by recalling what we have learned and finishing off by singing Twinkle Twinkle Little Star