Monday, October 31, 2011

Friday October 21st Astronomy, Moons, Stars, Planets and the Letter "A"

Monday's Activites were...

We are learning the Letter A this week.  This seems to be a fun letter for them to practice writing.  
Today's activity was by far one of the funnest that we have done.  We talked about gravity and how items don't weigh very much.  We then crumpled up white paper to make moon rocks, split up into 2 teams and then stood behind a line made with yarn.  The object of the games was to throw your moon rocks to the other team, but not step over the yarn or you would float into outer space.  Count down from 10 to 1 and then blast off they began to throw their moon rocks.  

I am sure that by today (Friday) you have heard the song, "We'll be Orbiting Round the Moon" sung to the tune of If your Happy and you Know it.  Have them show you the actions for orbiting, landing, walking, blasting off again, and landing again.

  I love singing with your kids!!!!!!



Arts and Crafts:  We made Phases of the Moon Mobiles

Today for story time we read...

 The Moon Seems to Change byFranklyn M. Branley




Tuesday Activities were...

Introducing Andrew the Alligator



Ask your children what was glowing in the closet today?   



Today we talked about Stars and they leaned the song
"Star Light Star Bright"
Each child should have brought home their glow-in-the-dark-star today

In Arts and Crafts we made Magic Stars

The story we read today was 

Stars! Stars! Stars! by Bob Barner





Friday's Activities were

Planets

We sang a song "There are Eight Planets' to the Tune of Mary had a Little Lamb

In Arts and Crafts the made Spray Bottle Solar Systems

We read the books

There's No Place Like Space by Dr. Suess

11 Planets by David A Augilar

We also played Astronaut, Astronaut, Alien instead of Duck, Duck, Goose
Check out this video with your kids.  Their favorite clip was the big hair up in the air.  Check it out...




See you later Alligator!!!!


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