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I put together the Astronaut Preschool Pack a bit ago, intending to do it right away, and then our move happened and all good intentions were packed away in some of our moving boxes {grins}. After the wonderful success of our Garden Preschool Pack a few weeks ago, I pulled out all of the books and started printing off things to do for our Astronaut unit.
Kaleb was VERY much thrilled. On Thursday I found him sitting in our Ahh Prods bean bag chair waiting for me to finish cleaning up breakfast and read to him! :)
My favorite pictures of the week? Kaleb used an entire sheet of stars to make our lowercase a craft and see that open mouth in the first picture? He did that when he stuck on every single star ~ somewhere to the tune of 40/50. It just made me smile every time. :)
We didn’t do all things every single day, but here is how I broke things up over the course of the week {click on the thumbnail to see my plans for the week}. All printables are from my Astronaut Preschool Pack unless otherwise noted.
There were a few things that we DID do every day:
- Read and sang our Bible verse together {Psalm 148:3 is also on the Seeds of Praise album}
- sang our Spaceship song {in pack}
- read the book On the Moon by Anna Milbourne
- played Astronauts to Earth game {over and over again….}
Otherwise, here’s a look at some of the things that we did together while learning about astronauts and space!
Language/Reading
- Vocabulary words including astronaut, rocket, helmet, moon buggy, etc….
- Tell what happened in the story and favorite part of the story
- Beginning sounds cards {both find the beginning letter and write/trace the beginning letter ~ added bonus pages to the Astronaut Preschool Pack page}
- Talked about opposite words from the story {big/little, up/down, far/near, tiny/big, gentle/hard, silent/loud, light/darkness, heavy/light}
Math
- Adding learning links to our numbers so we can work on 1:1 correspondence
- Sequencing ~ We’ve been sequencing rockets from smallest to largest {or in reverse}
- Counting down from 10-1 and making our rocket blast off!
Fine Motor/Writing
- letter tracing sheets: letters A, M, and R
- Rocket to the Moon line tracing sheets
- scissor cutting sheets {from Musings of Me}
Science
- Colors and color names
- Talking about space, gravity, lack of air on the moon, planets, and so much more!
Crafts & Hands-on Learning
- Paper towel tube rocket {wrap it with white paper, add some black wings and red/yellow streamers and a tinfoil nose and you are set to fly!}
- A is for Astronaut uppercase letter craft
- a is for astronaut lowercase letter craft
- a Space Jet Pack!
- do-a-dot astronaut page from Making Learning Fun
- a Space Sensory tub thanks to Along the Way! {I put the pin on a a plastic tablecloth to help with cleanup!}
Games & Songs
- The 5 Little Astronauts puppets from Spell Outloud paired up nicely with our Tabletop Theatre!
- Astronauts to Earth game from Mama Jenn
- Climb Aboard the Spaceship song {part of my pack}
Books to Go Along
Additional Astronaut and Space Resources
~ Space Jet Packs from Along the Way
~ A is for Astronaut from Spell Outloud
~ Solar System Preschool {and Beyond} Pack from 1+1+1=1
~ The Planets Song from Spell Outloud
~ Outer Space themed posts from Totally Tots
~ Space Sensory Tub from Totally Tots
~ Man on the Moon printables from Musings of Me
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