Chip Bee Science Play Dates
Weather, Time and Seasons
Our lesson will start with 10 minutes of free play at pre-set stations, then we clean up together. Our books this week are 天气 The Weather and 几点了？What Time Is It?
What Time Is It?
We dance along to What Time Is It? (现在几点了？). Then we use a clock toy and a real clock to learn how to tell the time, and the children repeat after us: 1 o'clock, 2 o'clock, 3 o'clock.
Each child gets their own paper clock. We call out a time, like 3 o'clock or 7 o'clock, and the children move the hands to match, with help from their grown-ups.
Seasons in a Bottle
We sing Seasons Are Fun (四季真有趣), then use our seasons in a bottle to explain what each season is.
Winter and Spring
Winter: a fake snow experiment.
Spring: melt the ice cube! Each child receives a blue ice cube and a warm water squirter that is the sun, and uses it to melt the ice cube.
Sort the Snowflakes
We read our book 天气 The Weather together, then sort the snowflakes.
How's the Weather?
We sing How's the Weather? (天气怎么样？) and colour in rain, sun, a flower and a leaf.
Counting Mat!
We count the items and place them on the squares of our counting mat: snowflakes, sunshine, autumn leaves, flowers, raindrops and clouds.
We finish with bubbles and the Bubbles Pai Pai song.