We've been spending a day learning about each individual planet with this months space theme from Mother Goose Time.
We've talked about the order the planets are in, and how they revolve around the sun. The kids got to play a game where they stood on the sun and tossed bean bags to the planets.
They also traced different sized circles on a big piece of paper and made a classroom solar system mural.
We talked about how Mars is a windy red planet. The kids made wind storms using the parachute and tried to throw "dust" off of it.
They also made their own red sandy Mars pictures.
The letter R was introduced this week and the kids completed their letter R pages for their alphabet books.
They took turns playing trip to Mars. They would roll the pocket cube and move their space person the corresponding number of places. This is a good way to teach one to one correspondence in a fun way.
The kids practiced making giant letter R's by golfing a ball around the oversized letter.
They made collages of Earth using plates and different colored paper.
They painted red and blue planets for cold and hot Mercury, and then added glitter to make them extra sparkly.
Three more sight words were introduced this month: look, up, and. They got practice finding them in the I Can Read books.
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