What a fun and busy week we experienced. I hope your child came home excited to share what they learned about that day. We talked about the universe, galaxies, the Milky Way Galaxy, our solar system, stars, the planets, and our moon. I created a min-room transformation to fly them into our Milky Way. We read about the moon in our textbook reader. We watched videos about our solar system, the star (sun) in it, and our planets. I read space books to the class. The students learned space vocabulary, filled in a graphic organizer to support their writing, and finally wrote a paragraph using details learned about the moon. When their paragraphs were completed they got to design a space ship using a math shape template. They used oil pastels to fill in the Earth and the Moon. They used glue to paint in space and we filled it in with glitter. If they had time, they colored a map of our solar system. We sure were busy, but the learning that was happening was out of this world!
Our textbook story, "Let's Go to the Moon."
Walking into our room that had some "heavenly" space lighting.
Close up of our Milky Way Galaxy
Entering the room to peaceful music set to Hubble telescope photograph videos of the universe.
Learning how the moon reflects the light of the sun.
Making a spaceship of geometric blocks. We later used a shape template to draw rockets.
Book shopping space books to put in our book boxes for the week.
Our finished writing hanging in the wall. We focused on vocabulary. Used graphic organizers to collect our thoughts. Wrote a paragraph about the moon. Drew a space picture. If students had time they colored a map of our solar system.
