Invitation to Play (ITP) set up for the preschool children(2 to 4 year olds) that particular day was Light Play!
As soon as they walked in, they noticed the curtains were all closed and the classroom was dark. They were left to wonder why for a few minutes. After a few moments of silence, the facilitator started to switch on the fairy lights, torch, light box, etc., without a word.
They gasped! “WOW!”, cried out a few of them while the others ran to touch what they had just seen, throwing their bags all around the class with much excitement.
They gasped! “WOW!”, cried out a few of them while the others ran to touch what they had just seen, throwing their bags all around the class with much excitement.
To engage and experiment deeper, some of them took sketch pens and started drawing on the light box while some passed around the torch light around the light box to see if it created any additional effects. When they noticed there weren’t much happening, the torch light was then separated and used individually by each child to see what it brought out on the walls and the floor – shadow hunt, playing with the intensity of light on different surfaces, etc. were some of the ways they played with the torch light. At this time, most of the children ran to pick up the trail of the fairy lights, jumping and twirling it around screaming and singing out their wonder and joy! A few more moments of light play later, they wound up the day’s ITP.
The next day, children were to explore shadows of their favorite objects from in and around the class as they seemed interested in exploring shadows the previous day. The class was darkened as usual with a torch light present. Unfortunately, the torch light’s light wasn’t strong enough to project shadows so the facilitator used the phone’s torch light, which worked! When children saw this light, they got curious on the sharp light that was projected and started to explore that by placing various things above, under and around it.
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What did they see? Shadows! And coloured light! Out came an array of objects from all around the class to see different colours and ,” Oh look! Huge shadow of me!”, screamed some of them, seeing their big shadows on the ceiling.
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Some of them had difficulty figuring out how to trace and eventually figured it out with the help of the facilitator and other friends. Once they were all done, they got up one by one and went for free play, and wound up for the day.
Contributed by Sruthy Krishna, Learning Facilitator at Sparkling Mindz Global Preschool.
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