Moon....

The moon is very old.  It can be seen in the sky as a full circle or in slices.  The moon has creates from asteroids hitting it.  Humans have landed on the moon. There have been twelve astronauts who have walked on our moon!  We pretended to be astronauts and gathered moon rocks to take back to Earth.  We rolled up foil pieces and placed them in my special space bag.  We learned the surface of the moon is rough and mountainous with many craters.  We took turns pressing our finger in a ball of play dough to make craters.
We also created a moon using a large moon rock (foil crumbled into a ball) black and white paint.
For literacy,  I hid magnet letters in foil and we pretended they were space rocks!  They opened up the space rocks, identified the letter and traced the letter.   This is also great fine motor work!