Space Unit - Week of the Sun

Because I am so behind in our Sunlight Curriculum, I decided to pull back from the Science readings and give J a choice of what she would like to learn. I showed her the books that we haven't read from the Sonlight Curriculum and asked her what interested her. She choose Space. We will be taking the next nine/ten weeks working on a unit about Space - each week learning about a new topic.

Our first week in our Space Unit was to learn about the Sun. Here are a few activities that we worked on.

We checked out several books from the library about the Sun and read them all week.

After we read about the Sun, J wrote some facts onto strips of yellow and orange paper to add to our soon-to-be Space Mural.

She created a model of how Earth revolves around the Sun and the Moon revolves around the Earth. This was a free printable that I found from More Time To Teach TPT shop, link below.

The model she made will be added to a Space Notebook that she will be working on through the unit.

The printable from More Time To Teach also included a read/answer sheet about the sun. This was good practice for finding the answers to questions in the text.

She also used the internet to answer some of the Sun related research questions.

And finally, we were able to complete the experiment for our week of the Sun. It seemed like every time we had the time to do the experiment, it was over cast and rainy. We finally had a sunny day to complete it. The printable came from An Adventure in Literacy TPT store (link below).

This is a semi picture of our Sun Facts. (Sorry about the jar - that was from our bible lesson). As we read this week, J wrote some of the facts about the Sun that interested her. This Sun will be part of a Solar System mural that we are creating. Next week, we are off to the Moon!

Links

More Time To Teach TPT - model of Earth and Moon's Orbit, super easy to create using brads.

An Adventure In Literacy - ice melting experiment with free printable sheets.