Montessori Works! (At Home): SIGHT

easy activities....

Play with optics…bending, changing or reflecting light

1. Prism- an old fashioned entertainment (& educational) piece

Keep a prism on a low shelf, in a box.

Show your child how to handle it carefully (3 & up)

Show your child how to take it to a sunny area.

Check out all the rainbows, explain the light is going into the prism, and breaking the light into lots of colors called a rainbow.

Keep the prism available or hang it in the window.

2. Mirror-

Reflect light off a mirror onto the wall.

Talk about how light bounces off a mirror and lands along the wall. Move the light all around.

3. Magnifying glass-

Collect 10 little items in a box.

Bring out magnifier.

Explain that a magnifying glass bends light & makes things look bigger.