Springtime brought with it an extended rainy period here at SVK, so you can imagine the excitement of our students when Mr. Sun came back out to play! Because it had been cloudy and rainy for so long, the children displayed a new and exciting interest in the abundance of natural light streaming into our classrooms. We were able to turn off the classroom lights and see our shadows!
A: Look! My shadow is bigger than I am!
G: Maybe it's growing?
M: Mrs. Cruz! When I move, my shadow always moves too!
S: Me too!
M: But some shadows don't move.
S: Yea! Like the table, the table shadow can't move.
We decided to take our shadow discussion outside onto the playground to see if we could create more shadows with our everyday materials.
The light tables were full of discovery, but the children quickly noticed that it was much harder for them to make shadows on it. Upon request I pulled out our "old light table" (an overhead projector) because it is "a way better shadow maker". We used a variety of loose parts and classroom materials (including our bodies) to learn more about creating and moving shadows.
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