Sunlight has colours too!

Date: 27^th June 2013

Day: Thursday

Time: 4:30-5:30pm

Class: Starfruit

Theme: Colours

Teacher: Teacher Yeong

Sunlight has colours too!

Today, I shared a scientific book with the children. This book is in Mandarin but I translated it into simple English for the children to understand. It’s a book about colours from the sunlight. Even though it kept mentioning that sunlight has colours yet the children still argued that there’s only yellow colour in the sunlight.

There’s a simple experiment shown in the book. So I quickly prepared a cardboard as shown, a cup of water and a piece of white paper.  I put the glass of water near to where the sunlight shines into the class. The cardboard was placed in front of the water while the piece of white paper was placed under the cup of water.

Since I had tried this with the other class, so this time, I tried to move the cardboard a little to see if we could see the colours more obviously.

Fortunately, the children could actually see the some red, blue or green colour from the reflection of the sunlight through the water.

Then before we ended our class, we sang a song, “The Colour Song”.

The lyrics of the song are as followed:

The Colour Song (sang in the tune of ABC song)

Red and orange, green and blue,

Shinny yellow, purple too.

All the colours that we know, live inside a rainbow,

Red and orange, green and blue,

Shinny yellow, purple too.