Rock Planets

Welcome back Friends!!! Come and explore our world and beyond Earth, Mercury, Mars and Venus. There are four rock planets in our solar system and we want to share them with you!!!

Huge shout out to Experience Early Learning for this month’s curriculum which I have received in return for honest and authentic stories resulting from my daily experiences. I am excited and honored to share how we use this curriculum to meet the different learning needs in my home.

Earth

Earth is the third planet from the sun and it is also the planet we live on. The earth is also green and blue, the blue represent water and the green represents land. Today durning creative art with our Preschool curriculum we used blue paint and painted a paper plate blue for water and we then glued the green paper continents onto the paper plate for the land.

We also played a fun math game. We worked together to put the plates in order from the 1st to 8th from the sun.

Supplies

• planet lables ( in your EEL box)

• Paper plates

• Yellow paper circle for the sun

• Glue

Set up

• glue planet labels onto the paper plates.

Discuss & Explore

• how far away do you think the sun is? Explain that the sun is almost 93 million miles away from earth.

• Work together to put the plates in order from the 1st to 8th from the sun.

Mars

Mars is known to be called the red planet because it has red dust storms. Today in creative art using our preschool curriculum we mixed yellow and orange paint together with shaving cream. We used paint brushes or our hands to make mountains on black paper. Next we dusted our paper with red sand to represent the dust storm that happens on Mars. It was fun to watch the children individual technique to make Mars, some of the children loved getting messy others not so much. ( this was a messy craft so we went outside)

Venus

What would you do if you didn’t have water? Venus is very hot and has no water.

Water challenge

Supplies

• Pitcher

• water bottle (filled)

• towel

Group activity

• show the water bottle and explain that we are going to work together. Ask the children what can we do to make sure there is enough water for everyone to take a turn with pouring?

• Invite each child to pour a small amount of water into the pitcher. Remind children that they have to be mindful not to pour too much out.

• Continue taking turns until the bottle is empty.

*This activity builds social awareness as children practice making sure that everyone has a chance to take a turn.

During creative art time we painted with cotton balls to make Venus. I showed the children a picture of Venus and told them that it is made of gases and is covered in clouds. The picture looks like a big ball of fire. I gave each child a yellow circle and they began dipping their cotton ball into yellow and red paint and creating a fire ball.

I hope you all had a great week and we will see you again next week. Thanks for stopping by.

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