Exploring Outerspace

 

Count and match the number of craters.

 

Draw the correct number of stars in each block.

 

Building together.

 

Spelling some of the planets...

 

Counting space objects.

 

Doing the can-can? Together is better!

 

Shared writing, morning message. The children are beginning to write the message, using the popcorn words we already know (I, like, in, to, no, am, a, that, can, me) and sounding out words we don't know phonetically.

Yy letter of the week.

Popcorn word of the week- 'me'.

Solar System Songs

Lots of great information in this one...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZ-qLUIj_A0


Just for fun...

Stars https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7t3aXb3LpWg

Sun https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-kzdR93bqw

Moon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i235Y2HRksA

Earth https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBmZjOHrVJ0


Counting Songs

Counting by 2s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvTcpfSnOMQ

Counting by 5s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_awKlEMyleA

Blast Off!

 

Making rocket ships with shapes (rectangles, triangles and stars).

How many rectangles will your rockets need?

 

Using clothes pins to measure the distance of planets, from the sun.

 

Using shapes to cover space pictures.

 

Mrs. Loslo explaining a space shuttle launch.

Thanks for sharing all your space model toys with us!

 

Mrs. Kacz explaining how all the planets 'orbit' around the sun.

Does anyone know the name for all the planets, stars, etc?

"the solar system" (Teyla)

 

Why do we need the sun?

"the plants need it to grow" (Olivia)

"so we can see, to have light" (Teyla)

"to give us heat, keep us warm" (Tanner)

 

How many shapes did you use? 5

 

Why is Neptune so cold?

"its far away from the sun"

 

Counting how many shapes were needed.

 

"Earth is 2 clothes pins away, Mars is 4 away"

 

Printing our names on the rocket ships.

 

Patterning 'moon rocks'.

"white, dark, dark, dark" (ABBB)

"light, dark" (AB)... in a circle, a pattern keeps repeating!

Making a blazing sun, the center of the solar system.

 

Taking a closer look at the model.

Valentine's Day, 100th Day of School and Birthdays!

 

Busy making patterns.

 

Roll the dice, cover and match.

 

Sorting challenge- In the two hoops, decide on a shape and a colour..

Example- one hoop is rectangles and one hoop is red

"But where do the red rectangles go?" (Teyla)

Excellent question!!! Any ideas?

"With the rectangles"

"No, on the red side"

"Lets put them on the edge" (Tanner)

To be continued...

 

Valentine art.

 

Symmetrical hearts.

 

Back on the edge...

 

"Lets put some in each hoop, that would be fair"

 

Happy Birthday Teyla and Logan!!!!!!

 

One of our shared reading activities.

 

 

We painted our hands to help us count by fives.

 

 

Waiting to pop the balloon, with a hidden message inside... to tell us the next activity.

 

 

 

...do 100 high fives, to count by fives to 100!

We filled the fishbowl!

One by one each day, ten little fish were traded in for big fish until we reached 100.

 

Making ice cream cones, to count by tens to one hundred. We can all do it!

 

Filling a hundreds chart and counting by ones to 100.

 

Making links for our 100 chain, ten of each colour.

 

 

Happy 100th Day of School!!!

 

 

Hawaii fun continued, more Shapes and Happy 100!!!

Bowling with coconuts!

While bowling one of the coconuts cracked open...

 

Taste testing fresh coconuts.

 

Guided reading- making predicts and making connections.

 

Writing out the popcorn word chart.

 

3D shape feely box. Can you guess and describe the shapes?

 

Making felt shape pictures.

 

Forming the snow into a cone to make volcanoes.

 

Volcanic eruptions!!!

 

"The shape has two circles on the bottom and wraps around, it must be a cylinder"

 

Sorting 3D figures from our environment.

 

"I made a penguin"

 

"You can stack cylinders"

 

Happy 100 Years Old Day!