Astronauts and Space Shuttles

We finally finished up Mother Goose Time's space theme.  

The kids loved taking turns rolling the movement cube and doing the corresponding astronaut workout.  They worked on walking backwards, standing on their heads, doing the superman, etc. 

They also used paper bags to create their own astronaut puppets, complete with cellophane face mask.

I read the would you rather scenarios, and the kids would use chips to vote on what they would prefer.  

They also did some patterning work using planet pictures.

And we did a little work with the letter Z by completing our monthly coloring page.

The kids made their own rockets and then used them to dance to the monthly space CD.

They also worked together to build a space shuttle out of blocks, and then took turns being the captains and counting down from 10 to blast off.  They loved taking turns as captain and telling the passengers what planet they would be flying to.

The kids took turns rolling the pocket cube and building shapes using this months manipulative.

Astronauts, Gravity and More

Yesterday we finished up our first month with Mother Goose Time.  We did so many fun things this past week.  The girls dressed as astronauts and then dressed their stuffed animals up like astronauts.  We talked about Russia, and how a dog was sent to space.  They flew their animals around the world map and made them land on Russia.

 Since we were talking about Russia and it's close to Easter Addie made a Faberge egg while Elli napped.

 They also made astronaut puppets.

We also learned about gravity.  The girls had so much fun pretending to float in space.

And run in space.

We also talked about space food and rocket ships.  The girls made their own rockets.

We finished the week with moon phases and finished up our scrapbooks.

The girls and I had so much fun learning about space this month.  I can't wait to start ocean commotion with them tomorrow.

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