Science
Colour Mixing (Primary colours - red, blue, and yellow. Secondary colours - purple, green, and orange.)
Dilute food colouring in cups of water. Mix the colour together and see what new colours are created.
Sort objects by colour.
Sort shades from lightest to darkest and darkest to lightest.
Mix paint together to create new colours.
Mix white and black paint to colours to see what happens.
Mix different colour play dough together.
Trees
Go outside and draw the trees you see. Label the parts of the tree by sounding out the words. (Trunk, branch, roots, leaves, needles, bark, seeds)
Do some bark rubbings. Try different kinds of trees. Do the rubbings look different.
Collect some things you can get from trees. (Pinecones, leaves, branches, needles, berries)
Collect some leaves and sort them. What is your sorting rule?
Paper
Collect different types of paper. Discuss what makes them the same and what makes them different.
Try doing different things with the paper you found. Fold it, cut it, clean up a spill, make a card, carry something heavy, wrap a gift. Which paper was the best for each job?
Dilute food colouring in cups of water. Mix the colour together and see what new colours are created.
Sort objects by colour.
Sort shades from lightest to darkest and darkest to lightest.
Mix paint together to create new colours.
Mix white and black paint to colours to see what happens.
Mix different colour play dough together.
Trees
Go outside and draw the trees you see. Label the parts of the tree by sounding out the words. (Trunk, branch, roots, leaves, needles, bark, seeds)
Do some bark rubbings. Try different kinds of trees. Do the rubbings look different.
Collect some things you can get from trees. (Pinecones, leaves, branches, needles, berries)
Collect some leaves and sort them. What is your sorting rule?
Paper
Collect different types of paper. Discuss what makes them the same and what makes them different.
Try doing different things with the paper you found. Fold it, cut it, clean up a spill, make a card, carry something heavy, wrap a gift. Which paper was the best for each job?