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 legos and shapes
* practicing cutting- making rays out of our sun
* using a push pin to make stars
* painting a moon using foil instead of a paint brush
* rhyming words from our Heggerty program
* recognizing the number 8 for 8 planets
* rhyming words from our Heggerty program
* recognizing the number 8 for 8 planets
* building and recognizing the letter I
* using our telescopes to find our HWOT letters
* patterning with space
* sequencing planets
* answering questions about our books read in class
* signing in by picking out their favorite planet/moon and comparing the answers/numbers
* making rockets using the letters in our name
* observing rocks with magnifying glasses
* counting stars to make rockets
* Journal-If I were an astronaut I would.....
* Using a flashlight, a picture of Saba and I and the globe to show day and night.
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 held a planet and a rope and orbited around the sun.
Questions to ask your child:
*What is your favorite planet?
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 held a planet and a rope and orbited around the sun.
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?
* What rhymes with moon? star? sun? (give 2 words and ask if they rhyme.... i.e. moon-soon, moon-dog)
* Are there plants and animals on the moon?
* What rhymes with moon? star? sun? (give 2 words and ask if they rhyme.... i.e. moon-soon, moon-dog)
* Does Uranus spin on its side? (yes)
*Does it take 4 days or 10 days to get to the moon? (4)
*Is the moon made of water or rock?
Books We Read:
On The Moon
Moon Dance
Books We Read:
On The Moon
Moon Dance
If I Were an Astronaut
This is My Planet
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.
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 continue 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:
Next week:
Bats, pumpkins, and spiders!
Reminders:
Monday10/13 and Wednesday 10/15 in the afternoon- Parent Teacher Conferences
Monday 10/20 No School
Thursday 10/23 Spirit Day-wear LECC clothing or LECC colors (orange, green, purple)
Sunday 10/26 6:00-8:00 Halloween at the Magic House
Wednesday 10/29 Theis Pumpkin & Market, 14101 Creve Coeur Airport Road
Thursday 10/30 Wear your costume to school-no masks and wear gym shoes for outside time
Friday 11/7 Fall Fling 6:00-9:00 Tropicana Lanes
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| We painted space pictures on foil. |
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| After counting the planets, we traced the number 8 and practiced writing/tracing our name. |
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| We orbited around the sun. |
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| Making monsters in art class. |
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| We counted the planets and sang our planet song. |
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| Show and Tell |
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| We used large push pins to make the letter S for stars. |
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| After placing our stickers on paper, we connected them to make constellations. |
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| Show and Tell |
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| Show and Tell |
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| We used a flashlight to show day and night. |
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| We found our HWOT letters using a telescope. |
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| The kids loved seeing the firetruck and firefighters. |
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| Moon sand, planets and scoopers. |
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| The students picked up moon rocks while walking on the moon. (egg crate) |
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| Investigating rocks on the moon! |
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| The students chose which phase of the moon they wanted to paint. We used foil to represent the rocks on the moon. |
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| The hippos practiced positional concepts with a block and white lid which represented the moon. |
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| We scrunched tissues to make the sun. |
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| Look how tall I am! |
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| Look how tall we are! |
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| The hippos enjoyed making their telescopes! |
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| We made 8 planets with paint daubers the practiced writing/tracing our name. |
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| After we made the moon, we then added the stars. |
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| What a great crew! |
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| We counted the stars and put the cube on the number to fill the rocket in. |
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| If I were an astronaut I would..... |
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| Building rockets with tangram blocks. |
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| Everyone drew the solar system then added stars. |
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| We made the letter T with our fingers in yellow sand. |
