The moon is very old. It can be seen in the sky as a full circle in in slices. The moon has craters from asteroids hitting it. Humans have landed on the moon. We discussed that the moon's surface is rough and mountainous with many craters. We used tin foil and paint to create a moon with craters. We also pretended to be astronauts and gathered moon rocks to take back to Earth! 
We learned comets are like dirty snowballs! They are made of ice, dust and small rocky particles. We made our own comets with tin foil, for the ice and dust, and crepe paper for the tail! 
We worked on letters Rr & Ss.
 

Happy Valentine's Day! We had a fun filled week filled with lots of love! The older kids decorated bags for the younger kids for our Valentine exchange. I will miss all my little helpers next year.
We worked on the letter Vv this week. ​

We learned all about the stars and sun this week. Stars are balls of gas and can be blue, red or orange. A star goes away when it explodes. An exploding star is called a supernova. We pretended our closed fist was a star and an open hand is a supernova. They made their own sparkly star headband with paper and glitter. 
The sun is a hat ball of gas, so make sure you don't look at it! The earth moves around the sun. They made a sun mask using a paper plate, sticker eyes and an elastic piece. They wore it while spinning slowly in a circle just like the sun does.
We also learned about constellations!