Science
Before KG · 12 min
My five senses
How do you know the world is there? Five ways.
Ages 2–33 pagesYou: discuss
Day and night
What is outside your window right now? What will be there later?
ScienceAges 3–415 minutes3 pagesEnglish textInk-light
Being written
This one is planned but not finished yet. Everything below is what it will contain.
- Skill
- Sorting by observed pattern, and noticing what changes
- You will need
- Crayons
- Your job
- Discuss
- Stage
- KG1 · ages 3–4
Not drawn yet
I can say what is different about day and night.
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How the fifteen minutes go
The five steps on this sheet, in the order a child meets them. This is what you will actually be doing, not a description of the method.
- 1
Wonder
What is outside your window right now? What will be there later?
- 2
Listen
Your grown-up asks: what do you do in the day that you never do at night?
- 3
Explore
Put each picture in the day box or the night box.
- 4
Share
Draw one thing you love about each.
Three levels in the same pack
Print the one that fits today. Same skill, three depths — and on this sheet they differ like this.
Support
Six obvious pictures.
Fewer items, more pictures, hints included, parent reads the instructions.
Core
Ten pictures, two belonging to both.
The standard task, recognition, practice and explanation.
Challenge
Ask where dawn belongs. There is no clean answer, and that is a good conversation.
Open-ended. Explain why, make your own example, use it somewhere new.
For the grown-up
The same guide that is printed on the back page, so you can read it before you decide to print anything.
The answers
Day: sun, breakfast, school, playing outside. Night: moon, stars, pyjamas, sleeping. BOTH: the sky, a cat, eating. The 'both' items are the point of the sheet.
If they get stuck
Ask about their own day: what happens first when you wake up?
Common mistakes
- Forcing 'both' items into one box. Ask if they could go in either.
- An adult tidying the ambiguity away. Leave it messy; it is more honest.
When they finish early
Look out of the same window morning and evening. Draw both.
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Licence
Free for personal, classroom, and parent use. You may print and share the link. You may not sell, re-upload, or modify this PDF without permission.
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