Space Centers and Activities

This week we have been learning about space and things in the sky.  Below are some pictures of our centers and some activities we did in class this week.

Rocket number order

we counted the stripes on Dr. Suess hats

We rolled the die and +/- cube to cover the stars.  My kids love these type of games.

Our pocket chart story this week

We practiced sounding out 4 letter words.  This was challenging, but they did great.

At this center they had to change the middle sound to the correct sound and stamp the letter.

The mystery can and sound graphing.  (The mystery can is an oats can...perfect to hold several objects and for little hands)

We practiced writing complete sentences this week too.

Stamping long vowel sounds

My kids are getting so good at coins and their value...this was a great reinforcer center.

Roll the money cube and write the value.

Space addition...they had to find the matching Earths...count each set and add them up.

Here, they rolled dice and found the sum

Counting sets of stars by 10

We balloon painted a white piece of paper and then made moons out of them...this was so much fun.  I saw this idea on a website years ago...it's not working now, but it was kindergartenhomestead2.com

Mrs. B. practiced a little subtraction with the kids after she read George Washington's Teeth.

It was fun.  They had to give away a tooth each time George lost one of his.

We made paper towel roll rockets and stamped a countdown to put inside.

Here are a few examples of our moons and facts.

I'm not sure if you can read the one on the left, but it says, "During a lunar eclipse the moon is red."  When I saw his fact I was like, Wow!

This one says, The moon does not have air.

This is the space page for our transportation fact book we will finish next week during our transportation theme.

TLC style earth page.

These are our day and night murals.  We talked about each time of the day and then we drew pictures and wrote what we were doing in each picture.