Can you give me some ideas to make a model to make the concept of day and night clear to a kindergarten?
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the sun coming out to play and so do the kids during the day, and at night, the sun needs to go to bed and so do they
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I have worked on a number of school projects.\n\nStart with a room schedule (listing the types, size and number of each room/area required).\n\nLook at the relationships between the rooms (i.e. changing rooms next to sports facilities, reception next to head teacher's office) and try form academic groupings.\n\nFrom then on it is an exercise in laying out a working school taking into account:\n\n- how pupils arrive, moev between classes, eat/socialise and leave\n- how the administration of the school functions\n- how the services function (janitorial, plant rooms etc)\n\nThis is almost an exercise in art but with constraints re travel distances, lighting, fire-regulations etc.\n\nI hope that gives you some pointers.
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Make a sunset background.  Add some cacti.  Then let them color.  Even add some plastic wildlife
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Here are a couple of favorites from my preschool classroom.\n\nFill a basket or any kind of container with something fun like marbles, miniature cars etc.  Have your son roll a die (use two dice as he gets older) Have him count the spots on the die and then remove that many marbles, etc. from the basket.......continue taking turns until the basket is empty\n\nCut out circles, squares and triangles from construction paper.  Cut out a different number of each shape and hide them around the room then go on a shape hunt with your son.  Once you find all of them create a large graph by laying the like shapes together vertically or horizontally.  Count how many of each you have, talk about concepts such as most and least.\n\nHave your son lay down on a large piece of paper.  Trace his body and cut out.  Talk about the different body parts and label them.  Allow him to decorate his likeness with collage materials, markers, crayons etc.\n\nRead books every day.  A way to get kids excited about reading is to create a book catterpillar or train.  Make a new segment of the caterpillar or car for the train for each new book you read.  Write the name of the book on the segment and any comments your child has about the book then add it to existing bug or train and watch it wrap around the room.  \n\nThe main thing is to be in  tune with what your child likes and gear the learning towards that.  If he likes cars count toy cars, sit on a corner and count blue cars and red cars and graph, paint with cars etc.  Don't try to push anything or teach him above his years because that's the surest way to turn him off about learning.  Good luck and have fun.
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you can pick and choose from this site, I won't bother explaining it, since we all know it, but this site is aimed at kids:\n\nhttp://www.sciencemadesimple.com/static.html\n\nYou might even just want to do the first parts and the last parts, but it depends on the age of the kids and stuff like that.
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My teacher had a great way of doing this. Tell your students to collect various household items and a few bags. Make sure each kid picks out two specific objects. When everyone returns, teach union and intersect using the kids' "sets".
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I have worked in day cares and I have found that if you put the sand out and keep it out all the time. (in its separate box) the children get use to it. Sand is front to play with wet but will have to be changed often. I would Put seashells, toys and little scooper's. Then I would have it as part of a curriculum. :) If you do this the kids will love to dig cool surprises out and will be safely learning about sand. :) That is what always worked with me. Good luck!
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How you arrange your room is very important.  The environment can be another teacher.  children can learn from the set-up.  They can learn indepedence by the way things are set up-they can get their own toys and art supplies out.  \n\nIf you put your circle time area in the same area as a lot of toys this can be a distraction to the children.  \n\nJust look at things from their level and trial and error will work well for you
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Deck the Halls. You need to put a timer on their lights so they come on in the day and turn off at night.
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with pre schoolers you need to put visuals in ur reading bring puppits food or any other things that go with the book they will be more involved if you do get them in the book by making each child a charicter in the book play dressup you dress up and have the kids dress up they will love it let me know if u try any of theese and how they work
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My kids did this last year at school.  Some suggestions from their class:\n\n*How to tie your shoes\n*How to play an instrument\n*How to locate a place on a map\n*How to hit a baseball\n*How to play a game\n\nHope this gives you some ideas.  Good luck!
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ask the children to bring in empty packaging from home as a small homework task. sort through th items brought in with the children talking about what can be recycled and why we should recycle. More importantly what recycling means. \nAllow the children to make collages using the varoius types of materials which can be recycled. \nyou could make this into a display. You could also do junk modelling with the packaging.
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I was a preschool teacher for a few years\nRead them a book about wind,\n1. then make wind socks\n2. have them paint by making their own wind.  Give them straws and have them blow the paint\n3. Make kites\n4. give them grocery bags (plastic) and have them "catch wind"  they will run with the bag, the bag will fill up with air.\n5. make a wind chime.  Use the long tube pasta, or ask the parents to bring in items that could be used for a wind chime.\n6. blow bubbles\n7. make paper air planes and take them outside and let the wind blow them.\n8.  throw grass in the air, see which way it blows.
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If you are making a model this might be useful for you:\nUse cardboard to create a ocean with ups and downs. Cover it with dark blue oil paint and some white color for the foam. You can use transparent plastic sheets to cover this model to get a glossy effect. Try not to put the sheet very tight. Stick it loosly so that it creates an effect like waves.\n\nIf you want to make the whole classroom ocean-like, then make it slightly dark and run a cassette with the sound of the waves.
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An easy solution would be to use Playdough! (or other claylike materials).  It's easy to form into various shapes and stick together into a model.  And it is colorful without needing any extra painting.  You can easily add labels on toothpicks or a color key to describe the different parts.
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The best project will be one that has some interest to the 5th grader. So my granddaughter likes animals. But my youngest boy likes photography. So a pinhole camera would bore my granddaughter but would have caught the interest of my son.\n\nThat being said... Here's an easy one. Go to a store and find some cheap analog clocks (clocks with hands) that run on a single AA battery. Then go to Radio Shack and get some battery holders and some "aligator clip leads" -- short wires with clips on either side. And get a bunch of different brand batteries of different sizes (if you are trying to get by simply, use only AA batteries and then you just need the clocks and the batteries).\n\nTake off the battery covers and hook up the battery holders to the clocks with the clipleads (unless you are only using AA batteries). Then put batteries in and see how long it takes for the clocks to run down. This may take a long time. If you are short on time, try this. Get a flashlight bulb at radio shack and put it across the battery with the clock. So this way the battery is running the clock and the flashlight bulb at the same time. Note the time on the the clock and check it every day to see when the clock stops. You can graph the results easily.\n\nQuestions:\nWhat lasts longer, a AA, a C, or a D battery?\nWhat brand of battery lasts longer?\nWhat lasts longer, a standard carbon-zinc battery or an alkaline battery? What is the cost difference per unit? Per run time?\n\nA little research on the internet about how batteries are built, and the different technologies (carbon-zinc, alkaline, nicad, NiMh, lithium, lead-acid) and you have a great project.
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ur idea is really cool......it shall really increase the parent-child interaction.and doing so at school shall increase the parent-teacher-child interaction....which is really nice.\nwell the first thing u need to do is to get parents and children interested in the event.\nmake them hunt for something really worth searching for.....\ngive clues in the form of puzzles.......puzzles out of what they have to study, out of story books and novels(try the harry potter/lord of the rings).\nall the best and hope the event turns out to b a grand success