Space Unit - Space Stations and Wrap-Up Party

We finally finished our Space Unit - Yay! Our last week was spent learning about Space travel and the International Space Station.

J made her own Space Station using recyclables such as boxes, 2 liter bottles, gallon jugs and lots of paint. DH helped with this process - he's more adept for this.

She wanted her Space Station to be purple and she even made red astronauts from felt.

For our last week, J worked on several final projects to bring all of her learning together. She made an ABC book about Space. She included all the information that she learned throughout the unit. She wrote the facts for each letter and then illustrated them. This project was included in her Space Notebook.

She made a Solar System necklace from air drying clay. She formed the planets and the sun from the clay. She poked a hole through the beads and waited patiently for them to dry so she could paint them.

She painted each home made planet bead and laced them onto a necklace. She added pony beads in between each planet. J really wanted to make a bracelet but it was too large so I convinced her to make a necklace.

J was very proud of her creation. The only problem we had with it was the rings on Saturn and Uranus broke off.

Another final project was to make planet cookies - for our Space Party. We used different sized circle cookie cutters and we added a cookie ring for Saturn and Uranus. I gave her several colors of icing and let her create her planets.

J made the sun through Pluto. (Yes, I know that Pluto isn't a planet anymore but J wanted to include it.) She even included the red spot on Jupiter.

The last project we did was to create a review game for the unit. We used a game template and made our own question cards. Then, we had a Space Party! J made decorations. We ate homemade chicken nuggets, tater tots, Alien punch (lime sherbet and sprite), and our planet cookies (which didn't last long). We played our space game and J beat us all with her knowledge of Space :) It was a great Science unit. We had fun and, for once, I didn't stress out over my lesson plans. Our next unit is the Human Body - J is less than excited but I think I will be able to hook her into it!