Early Childhood

Education Activities
for Gifted Students
Lindsay Dillon
Literacy Activities
Read Aloud
Probing Questions about
Predicting the Weather
• What are four things we can watch to know about
the weather?
• What are some tools that help predict weather?
• Look outside. What predictions can you make about
the weather today?
• What is predicted to be the warmest day of the
week? What will the high temperature be that day?
• What is one way that knowing about bad weather
helps people stay safe?
Science
Activities
 • Tornados area dangerous force of
nature but this one is safe! Make and
observe your very own tornado inside
Bottled a bottle or jar.
• Your experiment will keep for weeks.
Tornado Just shake it up whenever you’re in the
mood to see your tornado.
What you will need and Directions

• You will need…

• Clear plastic bottle or glass jar with lid
• Water
• Dish soap
• Directions
• Fill jar with water
• Add 1 or two drops of dish soap to the jar
• Shake the jar and observe. (You may have to shake the jar a few different ways to find out what
works best for you.)
• Record what you see on the observation sheet
IN DEPTH THINKING
•What do you think happened?
•What happens if you add glitter or food
coloring?
•What will happen if you turn it upside down?
Math Activities
Subtraction Bowling
• Using plastic cups, create bowling
pins. Using 10 bottles.
• Have the students use a ball to
knock down the pins.
• Record subtraction equations to
represent what is left standing
• Example: if the student knocks over
4 pins then the equation will be
• 10-4=?
Social/
Emotional
Activities
The Dot
By: Peter
Reynolds
 Have students come up with a list of positive descriptor words and write them on the
LIST board.

DOT GIVE Give each child a colored circle (‘dot’).

ACTIVITY On one side, have children draw a picture have them glue a photograph of themselves.
DRAW OR PASTE The back of the dot should be divided into 4.

Collect the dots and repass them out making sure that all students have someone else's
COLLECT dot.

Have students write or copy one positive descriptive word in one of the sections.
WRITE Repeate 3 more times so each section is filled

After each child has their own dot back, go round and share what has been written
SHARE about them.
 Was there anything that
surprised you?

Questions to ask How would you describe

after yourself?

Are the positive descriptions

the same as what you would
say about yourself?