Light and shadow play

The light exploration corner in my class has become very popular in the last few weeks, especially with those children who do not have English as their first language. 

In the first few days, there was a lot of awe and wonder, looking at colours, shapes and the children were fascinated to discover that moving objects on the OHP meant that the objects on the curtain also moved.

 Then one child discovered that shadows were created on the curtain for everyone to see. 

"Look, look! It's me!"

We cut out some shapes together and the two paper children had a 'conversation' together. It was lovely to watch how some of my English native speakers took the lead here and the EAL learners were able to copy new language structures and have a go themselves. These paper children were in a magical fairy land and they were off to visit the rainbow....!