Welcome back Friends!!! This week at Mrs.Kat’s Kids we finished up our space unit and this week the kids enjoyed being astronauts and playing with rocket ships all week long!!
Countdown with friends
Supplies
• boxes
• Tape
• Markers
How can we use boxes to construct a rocket ship together?
• Work together to build a rocket ship.
• Invite a child to sit inside the ship.
• Invite the other children surround the ship countdown together starting at 10 and ending with “ Blast off!!!”
• Repeat until each child has had a turn to sit inside the rocketship.
During creative art time we made a rocket ship twirler. The children had a blast playing with them throughout our week.
Rocket Ship Twirler
Supplies ( in your EEL curriculum box)
• Rocket ship
• yarn
• paper
Your Supplies
• tape
• Markers
• Scissors
Discuss
• what designs would you put on a rocket ship?
Make
• invite children to decorate the rocket with markers and other materials.
• Encourage them to add paper flames, attach the parts to the yarn then use the tail of the yarn to make the rocket “fly.”
Play
• Encourage the children to count down from 10 to zero then pretend to launch his/her rocket.
Making New Planets
Supplies
• playdough (2colors)
Discuss & Explore
• invite children to really explore the playdough. Ask the children what shape planets are? Encourage them to to form the playdough into a shape and ask them to name it.
Play Together
• encourage children to make a small medium and large planet with Playdough.
• Compare all of the planets and line them up from smallest to largest.
Challenge: Roll out eight balls to represent the eight planets, then have children name them all.
I hope you all had a great week and we will see you again next week. Thanks for stopping by.
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