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TGIF!!! What a week! I absolutely adored seeing my kiddos learn about space, but this week was a toughie. Sick and tired kiddos do not make for a happy class. Everything kept going the wrong way: food spilled on the newly cleaned carpets, bloody noses on the newly cleaned carpets, bathroom accidents during the middle of centers, pink-eye working its' way around the room, forgotten materials at home, the printer at FedEx Office went haywire and messed up my play-doh mats, the copy machine at work broke, I broke the side mirror of my car coming out of the garage... Yikes! I was seriously scared to leave my house this morning! :) So here's hoping the stars re-align this weekend and my class comes back rockin' and rollin' and ready to learn on Monday!

With all that being said, it was still a fun and jam-packed week. I loved overhearing one of my kiddos tell his parent, "Mom, did you know the sun is ACTUALLY a star?!?!" And I got to test out another new packet I made! :) This unit is titled "There's No Place Like Space" and will soon be available at my Teachers Pay Teacher store! (As always, I test it on my kiddos and make revisions first). Read on to tale a look at our week and for your Friday freebie- a space-themed emergent reader!

These were a ton of fun! I squirted some red and yellow paint onto a white circle (which I had previously glued onto the black construction paper), covered it with saran wrap, and let the kiddos squish away! :) This was definitely the most favorite art project this week.

Cotton Ball Paint Print Moons

Sneaky fine motor practice! :) My kiddos used a clothespin to pick up cotton balls, dipped them in the gray paint, and filled in the moon. They were careful to stamp the moon with the cotton ball instead of smoothing the paint, because as we discussed, the surface of the moon is bumpy and filled with craters!

More sneaky fine motor fun! :) After learning about eight planets and why the Earth is so special, my class made tissue paper plate Earths. They had to tear off strips of paper and paint over them with a mixture of glue/water. They turned out great (even though I vastly underestimated the time they would take to make!)

More fine motor fun! The kiddos cut pre-traced square shapes out of construction paper, wrote their name in each square, and then assembled the body of the rocket. They also cut out the triangle top, assembled the rocket onto a black background, and drew flames coming out of the bottom. Then (since Ms. Jessica here forgot the Q-tips), they finger-painted yellow stars onto the background. They are now adorning our bulletin board!

Letter A Astronaut Handwriting Racers

They just never get tired of these. :) Spent some time with letter A this week, discussing its' sound and formation. This activity is included with other handwriting racers in my upcoming space unit!

Another fun activity from my unit! The kiddos LOVED this. We pretended they were astronauts analyzing photographs of the moon taken by satellite and recording their findings. They thought it was so funny that someone had put alphabet letters on the moon... "Those silly astronauts!" :) Unfortunately, this was the first activity that printed all weird at FedEx (and being me, I went in to print the day I needed them), so I didn't have time for them to figure it out and fix it. The kids didn't really notice though, so it's all good! (This was also the day I forgot materials... my super cute recording sheets!)

And being the helpful students that they are, they reminded me that the moon is supposed to be dusty and white/gray. Also, the flag is supposed to be on there. So I went back and made these changes in my pack! (I also changed the font size to be smaller, this was a little bit too big).

Stamp a Missing Space Sound

Yep, you guessed it- another activity from my unit! :) The kids LOVED using our new alphabet stamps for this activity! It was great to check up on how they're doing with isolating beginning sounds!
"I See Planets" Emergent Reader

My highest group worked on a new sight word emergent reader I made (also included in the unit) which focused on the sight words "I, see, a" and color words. They did great! This kiddo (if you look very closely) added a little guy looking at the planet underneath, which inspired me to revise the book a bit.... which brings me to your Friday freebie! Click on the picture below to be directed to this free emergent reader. Enjoy! :)

"If I Were an Astronaut..." Class Book

On Friday we made this fun book using all our knowledge of space. The kiddos decided where they would like to go and were careful to draw according to the characteristics they had learned of outer space! Here's some examples:

This week we learned about AAB and ABB patterns. I assessed their learning at the end of the week with this fun planet patterns worksheet! I encouraged them to use colored cubes first to make the pattern, that way it was easy for them to check before coloring.

Another goodie from my upcoming space unit! :) This was the FAVORITE manipulatives/math activity this week. (Of course it was- who doesn't love play-doh and cookie cutters?!?!) And, if you look closely enough, you will see where the printer at FedEx Office used different colors of black. Weird weird.

Solar System Sensory Table

I made this fun table using glow in the dark stars, black aquarium gravel and a Space Toob from Hobby Lobby! This was great and helped us add to our shared writing of things found in outer space. I need to get a Planets Toob as well!

Astronaut Exploration Boxes

These were so much fun to make and watch the kiddos explore! I made these astronaut exploration boxes after being inspired by Sue's glove boxes and space unit at The Very Busy Kindergarten, which you can check out here. One box contained flour and baby oil (moon sand) and silver spray-painted rocks (moon rocks). The other box contained magnets and a variety of magnetic objects.

However, I made a very bad sleep-deprived choice when I set up the two different boxes with two different recording sheets on the same day. Next year I will do the moon rocks one day and the magnetism box the next!!! Oh well, we live and we learn!

Cardboard Box Panel Space Ship

The last of my big cardboard box! :) We made a big point of differentiating between a space station and a space shuttle. The kiddos loved grabbing their astronuat helmet and air to take off and explore a foreign planet, then head back to the station to study what they collected.

Aluminum Foil Space Station

Ta-da! I got to work super early on Monday morning to cover our kitchen with aluminum foil and stock it with some props to make it our space station. Good thing too, since all my furniture was in the wrong place after the carpets were cleaned! (Please ignore the baby dolls, dollhouse and kitchen table in the background... I moved them out of the way when the space station was open! My room is just so dang small!)

Here's a look at what was inside the space station (basically, objects I have gathered at Dollar Tree and Target over the years):

Lastly, check out these great books we read! I have got to say that my favorites were Zoom, Rocket, Zoom!(which was fabulous for teaching about what astronauts do in outer space) and If You Decide to Go to the Moon (which taught my kids a TON about the moon and space travel). If you are teaching about moon phases, reading Papa, Please Get the Moon for Me is a great idea to spark the conversation of why the moon shrinks and gets bigger. Scholastic also has a great science emergent reader series with books about the sun, moon, stars, planets, etc.

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And have a good weekend! :)

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There's No Place Like Space: Outer Space Adventures & Friday Freebie

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TGIF!!! What a week! I absolutely adored seeing my kiddos learn about space, but this week was a toughie. Sick and tired kiddos do not make for a happy class.

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Comptines et Chansons - HooplaKidz Franҫais

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Chanson De La Planète | Comptines et chansons pour les enfants | HooplaKidz Franҫais

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Tout comprendre sur :  le système solaire

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Institut Trottier de recherche sur les exoplanètes

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La petite école de l'espace #1 -  11 juillet 2020 - Grande Ourse et étoiles filantes

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Perseverance Rover left Mars Sample Belly Cover behind and drove away

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Tout sur le robot "Persévérance sur Mars  (mars 2021)

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Tout sur le robot "Persévérance sur Mars  (mars 2021)

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Une histoire en direct de l'espace par l'astronaute David St-Jacques

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Une histoire en direct de l'espace par l'astronaute David St-Jacques

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Planètes en vue ! Le Système Solaire éd du Ricochet

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A little more than a week ago, Finn's obsession with sinking ships waned, but of course, a new passion immediately followed. I can't say that I know exactly what sparked this particular fascination, but he has been reading his few planet and solar system books regularly for a few months now. I scoured Pinterest and found a few projects that I thought might capture his attention over the 4-day weekend he had at home.

The first project that we tried came from a lesson plan site and didn't have any instruction so we made it our own. I found a cut-out template of the planets, which Finn colored and cut out, then we cut sheets of black construction paper in half and taped them together length-wise and folded our book accordion-style into a flip book. Based on his reading, Finn came up with 3 facts for each of his planets, which I typed and he taped onto his flip book. This was probably his favorite of all of the solar system projects we made.

I also found this project on Pinterest, and knowing how Finn loves any project with brads, I just gave him 3 different sized bowls to trace and a thick piece of paper and he really did the rest.

(He thought he might need to demonstrate the moon orbiting the earth and the earth orbiting the sun for you to really know how it works.)

While he slept one evening, I decided to make a felted Earth, based on this model in Rhythm of the Home, only I decided to wet felt the Earth after a small amount of needle felting. The Earth felted firmly, but the inside layers lost some of their shape in the process. Finn can still identify the crust, mantle, outer core, and inner core.

After spending some time with his felted Earth, Finn requested that I make him a felted Jupiter, complete with Red Spot, and make Paulie a felted Mercury. Both of these I needle-felted, and we have yet to cut them open to see if the layers remained intact.

Finn has also immensely enjoyed spending a bit of time, in addition to his reading his planet books, on 2 different solar system iPad apps. One, geared for elementary age children, is called Montessori Solar System and the other, pictured below, is just named Solar System.

This Solar System app is just amazing and so comprehensive and interactive. It includes every named moon and dwarf planet with information about each. I'm not inclined toward purchasing many apps or letting my children spend much time on electronic devices, but both of these are solid, not over-stimulating, and very informative, almost like researching online with a bit more interaction.

I found a set of free Montessori card printables, which we made into 3-part cards. Finn tends to get tired of the 3-part matching relatively quickly, but he will endlessly play with the cards with the names attached, comparing the planets in various books and on these cards. He has great attention to detail!

Elizabeth also helped Finn find a placemat that one of the older kids used years ago and which now happily sits at his mealtime spot.

And that is about the entent of our solar system unit so far. He is disinterested in branching out into stars and constellation. He adamantly wants to include Pluto in any project or discussion, to the extent of spewing vitriolic contempt at the scientists that reclassified Pluto as a dwarf planet. And he's still voraciously reading and absorbing new information about the planets. If you know of any more solar system projects dealing directly with the planets, please send them our way!

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A little more than a week ago, Finn's obsession with sinking ships waned, but of course, a new passion immediately followed. I can't say that I know exactly what sparked this particular fascination, but he has been reading his few planet and solar system books regularly for a few months now.

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Apollo 11 : revivez les premiers pas de Neil Armstrong sur la Lune | Futura

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sur la Lune

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Revivez le premier pas de l'Homme sur la Lune

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Neil Armstrong - Les Grands Découvreurs - Quelle Histoire

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