Science (KG)

emergent learning series

Emergent Learning Series

KG

Dr. KID

emergent learning series

Emergent Learning Series

KG

Dr. KID

Emergent Learning Series Science KG (5-6years)

Curriculum & Content Development Aneela Shabbir Sania Tanveer

Design & Illustrations Asim Hussain

ISBN 978-969-7603-14-5 Edition 1st 2017

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Introduction Introduction WE ARE ALL SCIENTISTS! We play. We explore. We poke around and stir things up. We try something new to know what will happen because Science is messy. Children are introduced gradually to basic scientific concepts that will provide a framework for understanding and connecting many scientific facts and observations.

About The Book In Emergent Learning kindergarten Science, children will be introduced to science concepts that build upon what children already know which enables them to connect to new concepts and skills. These concepts are taught using age-appropriate interactive activities. In this book, we will focus on three basic science concepts Physical Science, Life Science and Earth Science through simple science-related activities that children can do at home or in the community.

Children will investigate and experiment with tools. The Physical Science will enable students how to describe objects and sort them by their physical properties. In the Life Science, students will observe and investigate plants and animals. In Earth Science, children will investigate and observe features of the Earth and its atmosphere. New vocabulary has been introduced to describe the characteristics of rocks, soil, water, and weather conditions in `a student's surroundings as they play.

Supporting children as they develop scientific thinking during the early childhood years can lead children to easily transfer their thinking skills to other academic domains which may support their academic achievement and their sense of self-efficacy.

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Table Of Contents Pages

Units

2-5

Unit 1

Unit 2

Unit 3

Unit 4

Unit 5

Unit 6

Unit 7

Unit 8

Unit 9

Unit 10

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Titles What is objects?

Kinds of objects Kinds of objects

k o o b s i Th gs to belon Paste your photo

What is object?

marker

Anything solid that we can see or touch is called an object.

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Think

Tell the names of dierent objects.

Kinds Of Objects What are some kinds of objects?

Small

Big

Hard

Soft

An object can be big or small.

An object can be hard or soft.

Think!

Tell the name of any soft object.

Tell the name of any hard object.

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Kinds Of Objects

What is hard?

What is soft?

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Think!

Tell the name of one hard and one soft thing

Describe Objects

Size:

Size:

Think!

Tell the name of object which can be big or small (e.g. ďŹ sh, apple).

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What Are We? Living Things Do you know?

Living things can be plants and animal just like you.

They need food, air and water to live.

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Find more

Look around and name more living things and names that you ďŹ nd.

What Are We? Non Living Things Do you know?

Things that don’t need food, air and water to grow are called non-living things.

Think!

Tell more about non-living things.

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Which Is Living Thing?

How do we know if the thing is living?

Mark (Ăź) for right answers.

1)

It has a face.

2) It grows.

3) It can move.

4) It talks.

5) It has heat.

6) It has hands.

7) It has ears

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Think!

Talk about living and non-living things.

Use ash cards to practice the concept.

Look At Yourself Which part of the body is that?

lips

fingers

ankle

Just do it!

Touch your body parts and say their names.

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This Is Me! Draw the parts.

Complete the body.

Alike or Different?

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What to do ?

Does everyone in your family have same eye ‘or’ hair colour?

Observe your friend’s face and what differences you find in them? (eye colour, hair, pointy nose)

What Can I Do ?

What can you do with body parts?

Body parts help up to

Body parts family

Touch your head, shoulder, leg, ears, arms one by one.

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Finger Paint Draw Draw Draw Draw Draw

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blue circle with ring finger. yellow square with middle finger. green star with pointer finger. pink dot with thumb. orange straight line with pinky finger.

More fun

Do you know that everyone has dierent size of toes.

Take o your socks and shoes. Compare your toes with friends.

My Eyes Spy Draw picture My eyes spy something that we have two and they help us walk and go into the socks.

More Spy

I spy with my little eyes that I have one.

I can smell and breathe with.........

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Allah Made Me! Choose the names of body parts from the box and write on correct place.

Heart, Feet, Hand, Ear, Shoulder Nose, Mouth, Head, Arm, Eyes

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Do you know

Allah has made all of us.

Observe Objects We can observe objects by using our senses.

The sense of Seeing

The sense of Smelling

The sense of Tasting

The sense of Hearing

The sense of Touching

Senses are the five natural powers to learn about the world around us.

Do It!

Close eye with your hands and tell: Can you see?

We use eyes to see etc. What do we do with our other senses?

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The Sense of Taste What part of the body do we use to taste things? Colour the picture.

Discuss about the mouth and tongue.

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Think!

Can you tell the taste of chips?

Is it sweet or salty?

My Food Project Cut out pictures of your favourite food and paste over here.

How to do ? Collect different old magazines, scissors and glue.

Cut out pictures and paste into the box..

Think!

Tell the names of your favourite food.

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The Tasting Table

Arrange a variety of food for children to taste.

Keep out different things that taste sweet, salty and sour slices of apple, slices of lemon, chips and chocolates.

tastes tastes tastes tastes 18

Think!

Tell the name of any fruit which tastes sour.

The Sense Of Sight Which part of body helps us to see?

Circle the correct picture.

Everyone has eyes. Some eyes are different in colour and shape but function of the eyes is same.

Discuss about different colours of eyes (blue, green, brown, black).

Think!

Observe the eyes of your classmates.

Can you tell the colour of their eyes.

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My Eyes Colour What is the colour of your eyes?

Blue

Green

Brown

Black

Colour eyes with colour of your eyes.

My eyes colour is

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Think!

Discuss about the things you can see in your surroundings.

Things To See 3 things, you see at home, school or outside.

1.

2.

3.

3 things you should never do with your eyes closed.

1.

2.

3.

Put different objects on the table.

Cover your eyes.

Remove one object and tell which object is missing?

Think!

Observe around your class and tell what can you see? (e.g. I see a pencil etc.)

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The Sense Of Hearing Circle the sounds of things that you can hear with your ears.

bell

Now cover your eyes.

Identify one of the following noises:

Clapping Whistle Tapping Discuss that hearing is to receive sound with ears.

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Think!

Identify the noise you hear (e.g. clapping).

Observing An Object Draw any object that can be observed with the sense of hearing.

Let’s play a game!

Give each child a whistle or ball and let them play hide and seek. The children will hide with their instruments. The seeker must follow the sound that hidden children make with their instrument.

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What Is That?

Observe each sound by acting.

Mark the object that you hear the sound of.

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1.

9

3

Clock

6

2.

Wind

3.

Talking

4.

Breathing

5.

Footsteps

6.

Car

Which sound you f ind interesting?

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Think!

Clap soft and loud.

Ask students to observe clapping sound.

The Sense Of Smell What do we use to smell with?

Eyes

Nose

Ear

Hands

Tongue

Circle the things below that we can smell with our nose.

Smelling is to become aware of an odor by means of a sense organ in the nose.

Think!

Take 2 jars, one ďŹ lled with baby powder and other ďŹ lled with yeast tell which smell is good and which is bad!

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What That I Smell?

What can your sense of smell tell you about the photo ?

Do you know?

Animals use their nose to find food.

Is the smell of garbage: Sweet 26

Sticky Think!

Who likes the smell of bone? a dog - a wolf - a lion

The Nose Knows!

Collect two pictures of good smell and two pictures of bad smell. Paste under each box: Nose likes smell

Nose dislikes smell

Let’s play a game!

Put six edible things in small containers to smell, while wearing a blind fold.

Choose food and spice with strong aromas like (lemon slice, black pepper, onion, cinnamon etc.) Which smell do you like the most ?

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The Sense Of Touch Which part of body, we use to feel things? Colour

5 Senses

Touch is to feel with hands or f ingers.

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Let’s do it!

Shake hands with your friend and feel the touch.

I Can Feel!

We use our hands to touch.

Circle the things that feel soft.

Think!

Talk about skin and how it is used to feel dierent things.

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How Does It Feel?

Collect different pieces of things that are soft, hard, rough, smooth and sticky.

Stic

ky

Rough

Hard

Soft

Paste as following:

Touch

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Think!

h

ot o m

S

Do classroom practice by giving chance to touch dierent textures.

My Five Senses How can we observe?

Senses

My senses are

, ,

Think!

and

Find out dierent things to use ďŹ ve senses in school.

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Mr. Brinjal’s Senses Cut pictures from page no.73 and paste where they fit appropriately.

I can hear with my ear

I can touch with my hands

I see with my eyes.

I can smell with nose.

I can taste with my tongue.

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Think!

Practice five senses in class like show your hands and say, “I touch things with my hands”, etc.

Life Sceince

We Eat.....

How do we get fruit and vegetables?

We get fruits and vegetables from Plants Discuss that plants are living things that cannot move around.

Activity!

Bring small plant pot in class and observe the plants that are all around us. Go to park or garden and collect information about your favourite plants.

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I Am All Around Lets’ meet with plant.

I am a plant.

I give you fruits and vegetables.

I give you fresh air.

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Think!

Where do you see plants?

Plants Parts Can you tell the names of human body parts?

Roots

Like humans, plants also have parts.

Think!

Go to school garden/park. Take out one plant from pot/ground. Observe and tell the names of plant parts.

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Draw My Parts Draw some leaves, roots, a f lower and any fruit to complete me.

Colour Me Also.

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Art Work

Collect dierent chart papers and colours.

Draw and colour a plant to make it beautiful.

Paste your plants on class wall.

Label A Plant Visit a plant nursery with your parents. F ind a small plant from there and paste its dried form over here.

Label plant with its parts names.

Think!

Hove you been any plant nursery before?

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Plants Roots How do roots work?

Roots hold the plant in the ground.

Discuss about the function of roots that roots have tiny hair and go into the soil to take in water and nutrients.

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Think!

Which part of plant is under the ground?

How does it work?

Plants Stem How does a stem work?

Stem moves food in the plant.

Discuss about the function of stem that tubes in stem carry water and nutrients from the root to plant’s leaves.

Think!

Which part of plant is above ground?

How does it work?

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Plants Leaves How do the leaves work?

Leaves make food in the plant.

Discuss about the function of leaves that the green leaves absorb light from sunlight. Plants use this energy to make food.

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Think!

Which part of plant is above the ground?

How does it work?

Plant’s Life Cycle How does a plant begin its life ?

Do you know?

Seed that begins to grow inside the soil is called germination.

What is inside the seed?

When a seed starts to grow we say that it germinates.

Seed is a part of the structure of the plant.

Discuss that plant begins its life as seed. When a seed begins to grow, it become seedling. Seedling is baby plant.

Think!

What is germination?

What is seedling?

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Plant Your Seed Follow: 1) Take a little glass jar.

2) Put soil in the jar.

3) Add Water.

4) Poke hole.

5) Add seed.

6) Put it in sunlight.

Note: Observe your seed jar daily.

How to care your seed: Water seeds everyday.

Keep it in sunlight.

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Think!

Wait till it become a seedling.

Plants We Eat

Flowers

Roots

Which part of the plant do we use to eat ?

Fruits

Seeds

Leaves

Stems

A green plant produces oxygen that help us to breathe.

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I Can Eat A Whole Plant How can you eat a whole plant?

Paste pictures of vegetables below.

Leaf

Flower

Seeds

Stem

Root

Bring variety of vegetables in class.

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Activity

Bring variety of vegetables in class. Make chart according to plant category like for seed corn/pea etc. Put vegetable under each category. Ask about their favourite vegtable.

Needs Of A Plant Do you ever wonder why plants grow, f lowers blooms and fruits blossom.

I need air.

I need water.

I need sunlight.

I need soil.

Sunlight, healthy soil, clean air and water help a seed become a strong and healthy plant.

Think!

What does a human need to live?

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All About Plant Collect and paste the following pictures.

Plants need rain.

Plants need soil.

Plants need sunlight.

Plants need air.

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Grow you hair

Bring a small pot jar ďŹ lled with soil. Paste your photo on pot. Plant seeds with the help of teacher and let them grow. It will look like your hair.

Plants Complete following by pasting pictures under each heading:

Plants

have

What to do ?

need

Ask your teacher to help.

Think about what do plants have?

What do need to grow ? What do they give us?

give

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Peek A Zoo Tell name:-

Animals are living things like plants.

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Think!

Which is your favourite animal?

Do you visit zoo?

We Are Different Some animals are big.

Some are small.

Some are between big & small.

Animals are different in their shapes, colour and sizes.

Think!

Look at your friend. Are you both same or dierent?

Observe one of your sibling (brother, sister).

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Animals Are Different Do you know?

Rose f lower and sunflower match with each other?

Some animals have wings.

Some animals have tails.

Some animals have fins.

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Fun Fact

Do you know that all humans are dierent from each other, likewise the plants are.

Humans and plants can be dierent or alike.

Animals In Action

Do it!

Move your arm right.

Move your leg left.

Nod your head.

Do you know?

Move is a change in position or direction

Look at these animals

Discuss that animals can also move like us.

Play an audio on animals move.

Think!

Describe your physical activities.

How do you feel when you can’t move ? Remember that exercise is an important way to keep ourselves healthy.

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Look Alike Like humans, animals have different body parts that help them to move and get food.

Observe this monkey: foot

legs

belly arm

mouth

ear hand eye nose

Discuss that monkey has similar parts like human but there is difference in structure.

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Think!

What is monkey using arms for?

How are the body parts of monkey and humans are dierent?

Show the dierence between the human and monkey.

Who’s Egg Is This?

Do you remember?

Plants are only seed before they grow.

Kid is a baby when he borns.

Name the picture.

Do you like egg in breakfast ?

Which animal lays eggs ?

The birds book

Do you know that many other birds lay egg?

Collect pictures and make your own mini birds book with their egg.

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Paper Plate Lion Materials ü Paper Plate ü Paints ü Marker ü Glue ü Construction paper (brown) ü Scissors

How to make: ü Use paper plate as lion’s head. ü Paint plate yellow and let it dry. ü Cut edges of construction paper little wavy to make lion’ hair. ü Glue hair on the corners of plate. ü Draw face of lion with markers. ü Display your paper plate lion in class.

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Note:

Be careful while using scissors.

Ask for assistance while making paper plate lion.

At Safari Park Circle the living things you find in safari park.

Things that need food, water, air to alive called living things

Activity:

Look around your classroom.

Tell the names of three living things you see.

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Where Animals Live ?

Where do you live?

Fish and frog live in water.

Bear and fox live on the lands.

Monkey and bird lives on the tree.

Ahmed and Sara live in a house.

Discuss that animals live in different places.

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Think!

Can you tell the names of more animals that live in water.

Who Lives On Land Find at least three land animals.

Cut them and paste here.

Write their names also.

Think!

Where do we live?

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Earth Science

Solve me!

I am blue and green and a little brown.

I am small planet with life all around.

They call me the third rock from the sun.

I don’t have many moon but just one.

Which planet am I ?

Earth is a planet that has living things.

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Riddle

I am the planet that everyone calls ‘real’. Look up and you may spot me in the sky.

I am the orange coloured dot, way up high!

What Is Earth?

Can you tell the colours of earth ?

Do you remember?

Earth is a planet. It is the only planet with life.

Earth is shape of ball.

It is made of land, air and water.

Think!

What is the shape of earth?

What is earth made of? Is earth a planet or a star?

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Caring My Earth Materials: Hand paint (green colour).

F lat plate.

Direction: Pour a little paint in the plate. Dip you hand in paint.

Paste this hand into given globe.

Do you know?

By keeping our houses and streets clean and planting trees, we can take care of this earth.

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Things to do !

Can you take care of earth?

How will you take care of earth?

Land Do you know the names of these items

Soil

Rocks

Ground

Hills

Do you know?

Land is made up of different materials such as rock and soil. Land is shaped by forces such as running water, glacier, wind and movement.

Desert

Discuss that land is solid ground of earth.

Think!

How can land change its shape?

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Few More Lands How is land made up of?

Mountains

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Different shapes of lands are called land forms.

Valleys

Hills

Think!

Do you know?

Deserts Name one kind of land form.

Make Your Own Hill

Take a green chart paper.

Cut it into wavy triangle shape.

Glue it on a while construction page.

Draw trees and plants on the hill.

Display it in class.

Play with clay:

Use dierent colours of clay to make hill and trees.

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Who Lives Where?

Match animals with their homes.

Water

Tree

Land

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Think!

Where do you live?

Under The Water Can you tell that where these animals live?

Do you know?

Water can be found in many forms like streams, waterfall, river, lake, sea and pond.

Ocean

Discuss that ocean is largest body of water on earth.

Think!

Where is water found on earth?

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What’s In Your Ocean?

Think about animals that are found in ocean.

Collect their pictures.

Paste them in the given ocean.

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Hide & Seek

Hide your ocean from your friend.

Ask them to tell the names of their sea animals.

Share your pictures with them.

Land Or Water Draw your picture where you live.

Land

Water

Who lives in the water? Draw picture.

Think!

Suppose you are a tree.

How would you help others?

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Earth Changes....

How does earth change?

Summer

Do you know?

The changes on earth’s surface is called “weather”

Winter

Autumn

Spring

Discuss that sometimes weather on earth is hot. Sometimes it is cold.

Four things change earth; sunlight, cloud, rain and wind.

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Think!

Name the things which make weather.

Today’s Weather What is the weather look like today?

(Sunny, rainy, cold, cloudy, windy, hazy)

Draw picture.

Tip: Watch weather forecast and observe the weather condition.

You may need help!

Ask your teacher/elder to help you.

Make correct weather condition.

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What To Wear ?

Sometimes we have to wear certain clothes because of the weather. Look at the given picture and match clothes with correct season.

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Think!

What kind of clothes do you wear in winter?

Which is your favourite season?

My Seasons’ Tree You need: Your hand print

Paint

Fingers’ pointers

Summer

Winter

Spring

Autumn

Instructions: Take a plate filled with brow paint colour.

Dip your hand along with wrist in paint.

Print your hand four times in boxes. (1 hand print in 1 box) Let it dry.

Use green yellow finger’s pointers for spring, green for summer, purple & orange for autumn and white for winter to make season trees.

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Day And Night

This is a day.

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Think!

This is a night.

At what time of the day do you fall asleep?

Day And Night When we wake up.

We wake up at sunrise.

We go to bed after sunset.

Do you know?

The sun makes the difference between day and night.

Think!

Observe the sunset today at your home.

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What Is Up In The Sky Draw the things we can see during the day.

Draw the things we can see at night.

Day

Night

Do you know?

It is day when the sun is in the sky.

The sun is not seen at night. We see clouds during the day and the night. We see the moon and the stars at night.

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Activity Time

Go to school garden. Look up in the sky. Can you look into the eyes of sun? What can you see in the sky?

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Dr. KID

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