There's No Place Like Space! (part1)

Our book, There's No Place Like Space by Tish Rabe (under the Dr. Seuss label) is perfect since we are learning about the planets in our final week of our space unit. This book has the rhyme like Dr. Seuss but is packed with planet information. There is also an app with the same name for the I-Pad. We don't have this but it looks like fun.

We reviewed number order up to 20. I made stars with numbers on them and placed them in a random order in front of J. She then had to put the stars in order.

We read about the planets and put our flashcards and planet cut outs in order from the sun. We discussed the gaseous planets and the reasons why no other planet could support life. I don't expect her to know all of the planets but she just might by the end of the week.

J colored a planet poster that she will hang in her room along with the penguin items she created. Here, she is checking to see what color Venus is.

Here is her finished product.

One craft that she did was a sun catcher I found marked down somewhere. It is Saturn. She begged to do this but it was probably a little too difficult since the spaces were really small that you had to fill. J finished anyway and we baked it in our oven.

To visualize the distance of the planets from the sun, we made a planet string that stretched across the room. It was so big that I couldn't get a whole picture of it. The string was 12 feet long and we talked about how cold the planets that are farther from the sun were and how warm the others were.

Our rhyme of the week is Little Bo Peep. We used a stuff sheep and played hide and seek with it. J now calls the game "Hide and Sheep." We actually had a warm day today. We celebrated the idea of bringing out our spring/summer clothes. If it was up to J, we would do it today. But I am not sure the warm weather is here to stay (I hope it is).  So we are waiting a little longer for our short sleeves. We enjoyed the day nonetheless. I hope your day is full of sunshine.