6D Good Morning Good Night

Art

Use a long roll of paper, go outside, and trace each other’s shadow. Note the time and create “shadow people.” Compare the different shadows at different times of day. Teacher Note: These would make excellent hallway decorations to celebrate sun and shadow observations.

Using a shoebox or piece of cardboard, create a 3-D diorama of the sky (habitat) for your animal. Use your drawing as a guide as you create your diorama. You may choose to decorate the outside of your box. Draw, cut out, and decorate any pieces that you need for your landscape and glue or tape them into your box. Students may create trees, people, or other natural objects into their scene.

Create a mask of your animal and create a play of what various classroom animals do throughout a 24-hour day. Use a sun to represent daytime and a moon to represent nighttime.

Create a classroom mural. Part of the mural will have blue paper to represent day and other half black paper for night. Have student use pastels or tempera paint to draw animals on the mural. Utilize recycled materials to add dimension, including grass, trees, nests, etc. 

Math

Have students begin tracking moon phases during calendar time and recording it among data collected on the calendar.

Social Studies

Use the Native American story, discussing what the animals learned and how we can use these lessons and apply them to our classroom and how we interact with out classmates.