Blasting Off to Outer Space!

5, 4, 3, 2, 1 Blast Off with us to Outer Space Week!

We began our week on Monday off in the Kids Kitchen. We made space goo with a mixture of cornstarch and water. We loved this sensory experience!!

We talked about rocket ships at Circle Time, and then used different shapes to create a Shape Rocket for art.

My little munchkins used their creative thinking skills to answer my question, “When a rocket ship blasts off, where does it go?” I love their answers!!

Space Week gives us the best opportunity to practice our counting down skills! We have been working on counting down from 10 to 1 and have gotten very good at it!

We also practiced our fine motor skills by tracing straight and wavy lines connecting the rocket ship to the moon. Great tracing!!!

We love our new room. Here are some pictures of our favorite things this week!

On Tuesday we made moon cakes in the Kids Kitchen. We had fun making chocolate faces in our pancakes to represent the man in the moon. Yummy!

We talked about the moon and about astronauts at Circle Time. We focused on the word “astronaut” and talked about other words beginning with a short a. Afterwards, we looked for uppercase and lowercase a’s to practice our letter identification skills.

We made moons for art, using a star sponge and worked our fine motor control to sponge paint.

 

We counted stars and other shapes as a part of a table activity. We reviewed our shape names and our rote counting skills!

We talked more about stars on Wednesday and created an outer space scene with the help of a turkey baster. We had fun spraying and squirting paint and also worked our pincer strength.

In the afternoon we talked about things that are similar and worked on identifying similar shapes with this shadow activity. We linked shadows of different space themed pictures and practiced taking turns.

We talked about the word “twinkle,” and discussed things that twinkle to understand this vocabulary word more in-depth. Check out what my munchkins said…

We explored a wordless book for Circle Time on Friday. This was a great opportunity to use our critical thinking skills, observation skills and creative thinking as well.

We made two different art projects today! We are beginning to explore patterns and, after discussing them at Circle Time, we completed an ABA pattern with stars and moons.

We also learned about constellations at Circle Time, and then made name constellations. We peeled stickers and worked our fine motor coordination and hand-eye coordination by placing the stickers on our name.

To complete our week, we tasted astronaut ice cream!! We loved it!