The Sun and Moon

I am choosing to combine days since we only meet twice a week so today we learned about the sun and the moon.  At calendar time, we introduced the letter S, looked for it on our materials for the day and practiced saying it.  We also introduced the number 7 and practiced counting the moons in the super fun Balancing Moon manipulative set that came with our curriculum.

The kids had fun making the moon rocks (everyone choose to make a large rock instead of multiple small ones) and eating their moon snacks.  I chose to use Ritz crackers, peanut butter and raisins instead of the rice cakes, cream cheese and bananas because I know Miss M would maybe eat one bite of a rice cake and that would be it.  We talked about how the raisins made the crackers bumpy like the moon.

We also started our journals today, what a fun little book that will be to send home at the end of the month.  These kiddos are just turned 3, almost 3 and barely 2 so we are not working on actual letter formation but the coloring and scribbling they do in their books is a great precursor to writing.  I still pointed out the letter S at the bottom of their page as they drew swirly circles in red, orange, yellow and pink.

I just love this program!  There are so many fun activities and they can be modified very easily to fit the needs and interests of the kids in the moment.  For example, the Moon Grab activity turned out to be a little hard for them so instead of rolling them onto the card and counting up to 7, we rolled the dice and had them find moons that matched the same colors.  You could easily have them count all the moons in that color to get more math in.  At this point in the morning, they were all more interested in building with them, which was fine.  We pointed out the different sizes and let them play as they wished.

I am excited for Wednesday, when we do Astronomy and the planet Earth together.