Day Sky Night Sky Week is here! We began our study our solar system this week, and the children have embraced the science and art and games and books enthusiastically!
Our art projects included constructing our own solar systems that included a moon, planet earth, stars, and sun. The children enjoy labelling the planets that are hanging in the room, as well as exploring the pictures at the science table. We glued and glittered crescent moon shapes, and enjoyed painting at the easel.
Our songs reflect our knowledge of orbits, the sun, planet earth, and space travel.
The biggest news in the classroom, as you might know, is the construction of a "rocket ship" using our imagination. We had a brainstorm session (everyone's ideas had value and needed to be listened to) and decided on colors (purple, gold, sparkly, diamonds) and how many children could fit inside (all of us). Hearts were a favorite decoration idea, as well. The ship will have a name, and a lot of pictures that represent the children (their ideas).. What an exciting time to be a preschooler! We are impressed with the knowledge of the children, as well as their enthusiasm in working together to make this rocket ship.
We made a polymer, "gak" , together, and found it has many properties, stretching, breaking, sticking together, crumbling apart.
We had a guest reader, Karen, who shared the book The Little House (it has the phases of the moon in it!)
Middle School students have been helping out during our P.E. time, and last week they constructed an obstacle course for us.
We went around and around the gym, following directions and moving through hopping, rolling, throwing, and kicking. fun!
We'll continue with our theme next week, and include some talk about space travel.
We'll continue with our theme next week, and include some talk about space travel.
Words we've heard:
"you have to be there at 6-8-8"
"you're our first guest, so you get to eat under the table!"
some vocabulary words that your child might define for you:
orbit, gravity, meteor, comet, and a question they can answer,"What is the only star that we can see in the daytime?"
Until next time,
Michele
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