So long solar system... Just because we won't be learning about planets anymore, doesn't mean the learning has to stop. If your child is still interested in learning more about space, there are many wonderful books, projects, and ideas you can explore together. The planet song the hippos learned last week was sung multiple times again this week, and it is likely to be sung in your home many times as well.
Many of our activities incorporated fine motor skills, letters, numbers, language, sensory, rhyming, patterning, following two step directions, strengthening finger muscles and sequencing.
* peeling stickers to make constellations and decorating a telescope
* playing with moon sand, cups and scoopers
* sensory table with small colored rocks, tongs and letters
* connecting stars with crayons and naming our constellation
* practicing writing/tracing our names
* creating rocket ships with little legos
* building rockets with big blocks
* using a push pin to make stars
* painting a moon using foil instead of a paint brush
* recognizing the number 8 for 8 planets
* building and recognizing the letter I
* identifying our HWOT letters
* patterning with space
* answering questions about our books read in class-discussing make believe books and true books
* signing in by picking out their favorite planet and comparing the answers/numbers
* counting stars to make rockets
* counting planets and finding the number using a clothespin
* Using a flashlight, a picture of Saba and I and the globe to show day and night.
* observing the different phases on the moon with our light up moon
We used our gross motor skills when we pretended to walk on the moon like astronauts and pick up moon rocks with grabbers, counted backwards from 10 to blast off like a rocket, spun around on sit and spins, and ran, rode and played on the playground. During gym we each had a turn with the rocket stomper.
During our 2nd steps lesson we looked at a picture of a boy who was happy and a girl who was sad. We examined their facial features. Happy-smile, cheeks up. Sad-frown, eyes looking down. We can look at our friends facial expressions to figure out how they feel.
Questions to ask your child:
* What is your favorite planet?
* What did we make to see the moon and stars at night? (telescopes)
* Are there plants and animals on the moon?
* Is the moon made up of rock? (yes)
* Does Uranus spin on its side? (yes)
Books We Read:
On The Moon
Moondance
Video-"Time to Shine" and "I'm a Star" by the Storybots
What to practice at home:
Use the students telescope (paper towel roll decorated with stickers) to observe the moon and stars at night. We discussed how the moon doesn't always look the same each night.
Practice putting on backpack, placing school snacks in the backpack, and zipping the backpack. We are also working on how to get school papers into backpacks. We encourage the students to roll or fold their papers up and place them in the backpacks. Please practice this skill at home.
Next week:
Bats, pumpkins, and spiders!
Reminders:
10/14,10/16 Parent Teacher Conference week- Monday and Wednesday
10/27 Magic House Halloween Party
10/30 Thursday Theis Pumpkin Farm field trip
11/5 No School Professional Development Day
11/15 Fall Fling
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| Tracing our names. |
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We had space suits, computers, headphones,
and calculators in our rocketship. |
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Counting the moons and finding the number
using a clothespin. Good fine motor and math practice. |
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| We scrunched tissues to make our sun. |
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The fire department came for a visit to LECC.
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| Moon sand fun! |
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| Making moons with paint and foil. |
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| Everyone enjoyed picking up moon rock with grabbers. |
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| Use the telescope to look at the moon and stars at home. |
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| The students put the planets together. |
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| The fire department gave us fire hats! |
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Here are the planets the kids painted last week.
They painted a planet with another classmate. |
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| We painted and cut out flags to decorate our rocket. |
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| Here we counted the starts and found that number on the rocket. |
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| We had teamwork putting this puzzle together! |
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| We made stars by punching the dots using a push pin. |
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Wednesday we had Apple Crunch Day. Each student
in the school received an apple from the garden! |
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We made our own constellations using star
stickers then connecting them using a colored pencil.
The students told us what they represented. |
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| Making the sun rays. |
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| We found our HWOT letters using the pointer. |
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| 10, 9, 8........Blastoff! |
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| Show and Tell |
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| Show and Tell |
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| Show and Tell |
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| Fun with pumpkins in art class. |
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Rocket, Pencil, Rocket, Pencil
This represents jumping jacks. |
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| The rocket stomper was a hit!! |
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| We water colored a space picture. |
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| We made our own shapes out of oil pastels and star stickers. |
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| Here are the phases of the moon. |
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| The Earth spins. |
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| Making rockets with blocks. |
