Stargazing Aliens

We had another great class today.  We did the Astronomer and Earth units and the kids had a blast.  We made decorated telescopes and then looked around the room for stars (each child was supposed to look for a certain number but they were having too much fun finding all of them to stop).  We also looked for yellow stars only since we introduced that color in circle time.

We talked about how the earth spins and one rotation is a day and one orbit around the sun is a year.  They really enjoyed orbiting the cutest sun ever (Littlest liked being in the middle of everything) and we even tried having them spin while they did it but everyone (including the mommas) got dizzy pretty fast.

The alien headbands were a fun craft that Miss M decided made good headwear for dinnertime too.  We counted out the eyes and then headed back to the living room for some patterning with our foam stars.  We tried a few patterns but the ABAB pattern seems to be about the right level for them right now.

Have I said lately how much I love this program?  The activities are so much fun and even just having the display materials up on the wall invites so much investigation and incidental learning.  Miss M loves to count the days on the calendar over and over again and the world map provides lots of opportunities to learn the names of  animals and places and geographical terms.  Littlest has found a great fine and gross motor skill center in it, as well; she loves taking out the letter flowers and pulling them off their stems or pulling herself up to her knees in order to get a good grasp on the theme poster so she can take it down

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