The younger children worked in their journals using stickers, glueing shapes and coloring. They played with magna tiles building towers.
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Earth is the third planet from the sun. Planet Earth is special because it is the only planet in our solar system with liquid water on its surface that can also sustain life. Earth is mostly made up of ocean water. During this Invitation to Create, children used their creativity to design their own Earth collages. They formed a plan and made artistic choices using paper continent shapes, paper plate and paint. They also explored in the space sensory bin.
They traced, sorted, used a q-tip to paint, colored, used puzzle pieces and stickers to create letter Rr.
Comets are big balls of ice mixed with dust and rock. They are sometimes referred to as "dirty snowballs." When a meteor falls toward the earth, it becomes a comet with a fire tail. This is the same as a "shooting star." They chose three paint colors, made a small dot with the first color and created a ring around the dot using 2nd and 3rd colors. They scraped the paint across the paper to make a comet!
The younger kiddos sorted color stickers in their journals. Astronomers are people who study the moon, stars and planets. They use tools such as telescopes, cameras and computers to see what is in space. The word "telescope" is derived from the Greek words meaning "far" and "to look and see." During this Invitation to Create, they designed their own telescopes using cardboard tubes and stickers. They can use their artwork as a tool and pretend they are astronomers.
One of my friends asked me yesterday if we can learn about fairy tales and princesses. So, we diverted from our Space theme today! Of course, we made magic fairy wands that can also be shooting stars! They built their names using shapes to make a castle, traced various fairy tale pictures and used magnets to build castles. For fine motor practice they built shape castles.
What would you bring back from a trip to the moon? Moon rocks! They were given foil to create moon rocks.
The moon's surface is rough and mountainous with many craters. They crumpled up a round piece of paper, flattened and glued into their journals to see the craters. They used foil and paint to create a moon. They were given stars and encouraged to count out 12 and glue in their journals. Snake, sock, sun, and star all start with S! This week they used stencils to trace in their journals, traced lines, used stickers, and paint to create Ss. They colored, cut and glued Ss in their journal and used puzzle pieces to create the letter Ss.
The sun is a star. All planets rotate around the sun. You shouldn't look at the sun because its light can hurt your eyes. What color is the sun? Did you know the sun is actually white but shows all the colors of the rainbow?
The sun, made up mostly of hydrogen, is at the center of our universe. It is the brightest object in our sky and provides us with light and heat. During this Invitation to Create, children used a paper plate and paint to design their own image of the sun, then explored fringe-cutting the edges to create rays. They were encouraged to create their own constellation designs. They sorted stars (small, medium and large). They took turns rolling the pocket cube and they identified the size and color of the star. Today was a play dough day, we used space cookie cutters and stars. And finally, as a group they all participated in building number rocket ships! Stars are giant balls of gas. White or blue stars are very hot while orange or red stars are cooler. Stars look like they are twinkling in the sky because of the atmosphere's distortion of our line of light.
They each made a star headband using markers and star shapes. They used star counters to create a constellation. As a group, we made rocket ships with numbers. They played in the space sensory bin! |
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