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“At night, if you put a flashlight on the dark, it creates a shadow.” - Giacomo

2/22/2021

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Testing out our flashlights

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I notice that your room is dark like mine. 
"Your room is lighter." - Saul, 3.6 years 
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Moving it up and down.

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Up against a truck.
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Twirling it in circles.
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Twirling it and using our hands in front of it.
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Making shadows bigger and smaller

“So Elyse, do you see that my bathroom is dark? If I turn this light on, it’s a little bit [more] light, and you can see something. It’s almost like a shadow. The further you get, the bigger it is.” - Giacomo  [moving away from wall, but closer to the light source]
“So, the closer to you get, the smaller it is.   The more backwards you go, the bigger it gets.  It’s humongous.” - Giacomo

“Humungous.” - Saul 
“The closer my shadow gets, the smaller it is.The more backwards I go, it’s bigger.” - Giacomo
When you get further away from the light, your shadow gets bigger?
“It doesn’t just absorb my shadow, it can also absorb other shadows.” - Giacomo [holding tissue]
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“Do you see now it’s dark? Actually, it’s darker inside here and the more darker it is, the more shadow it looks like.” - Giacomo
The darker the room, the more shadows?
“See, it’s a teensy teensy shadow, but then I turn this on [lamp], there’s a good shadow.” - Giacomo
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Does it have to be dark for you to find shadows? 
“Yeah, but then you need a flashlight to point into a dark place so that you can find a shadow.” - Giacomo
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[above]: How can we make this smaller? 
[right]: Saul using his animal to make it bigger sand smaller.
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What happens if you put the flashlight near the truck?
[far left]: What if we point the flashlight up? Can we find shadows up there?

[immediately left]; Giacomo finding the shadow of his tree. 
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We each used our own objects to test out how movement changes the size of the shadow. 
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Revisiting  Mary Poppins​

We revisited a book that we read quite a bit in the fall.  This Mary Poppins book is full of beautiful silhouettes that are part of the illustrations/artwork of the book.  This time, we used a flashlight to really emphasize the shadows that they make as you turn the pages. 
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Giacomo reminded us that in the new Mary Poppins movie, there is a rubber duck.  I had one nearby, and we discovered that we could use the flashlight to "add" the rubber duck to the page.  Do we need a big one? or a small one?
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