Happy Tuesday! It's an outer space storytime!

Happy Tuesday Everyone! Most kids have a very centered concept of existence. It's fun to expand their knowledge of the universe around them and plant science concepts early by reading and learning about them. Today we mainly focused on the moon, sun, and gravity. I think those three concepts are good enough for preschool. Mine started to lose interest when I went into Earth's neighbors. It was also somewhat challenging to find entertaining books for this age and theme. We made it work and have a great time.

The Books:
My First Big Book of Space by: National Geographic
Moustronaut by: Mark Kelly
Space Walk by: Salina Yoon

What we did:

1.) Action song: Zoom! Zoom! Zoom! (jbrary.com)
Zoom, zoom, zoom! We're going to the moon. (Clap hands together on beat)
Zoom, zoom, zoom! We're going to the moon. (Clap hands together on beat)
If you want to take a trip, climb aboard my rocket ship. (Pretend you are climbing a ladder)
Zoom, zoom, zoom! We're going to the moon. (Clapping)
In 5-4-3-2-1 BLASTOFF! (Count and crouch as you count down, then jump and shout on BLASTOFF!)

2.) Gravity Dance- I got a collection of fast/slow swing tunes. I explained that Gravity is what allows us to move like we do on earth. In space, we move more slowly and smoothly. We danced fast to some Louis Prima and Sam Gaillard. We danced slowly (Without gravity) to Louis Armstrong. Even Ruby got to dance. TONS of fun!

3.) Flannelboard- Five little rocket ships (cfkidslibrarian.blogspot.com)
Five little rockets ready to zoom,
This one says, "There's not enough room."
It starts its engine;
Ready to fly, 
Looks at the others and waves good-bye.

Four little rockets...(Continue counting down until...)
one little rocket ready to zoom
this one says "Everyone's gone!"
It starts its engine;
Ready to fly,
It looks at us and waves good-bye!
10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1-BLAST OFF!

4.) www.gonoodle.com Brain breaks and body movement
We continued leveling our champion up.We tried two new songs called This or That and Push all the Buttons. One little one was dancing so close to the screen, I thought he would crash into it.
HA HA HA! It's working! Some of my storytime moms and grandmas have gotten their own gonoodle.com accounts!

5.) Playtime- We had four

stations today. I had a very busy week so we couldn't have our asteroid toss game, and I was mildly disturbed at some of the other suggestions I found on the internet. One involved having kids throw balled up socks at each other...no joke. So we had four stations today

a.) Corn Bin

b.) Planet painting- Kids used a sponge to paint a paper plate any color they wanted. Then, if they chose to, they could stick brown construction paper on the plate to simulate "land". It was pretty fun.

c.) Star scopes- I took toilet paper tubes and put black construction paper over the top, rubber banding it for support. I poked some holes in the black paper to simulate stars and boom. Telescopes.

d.) Star matching game. I made ten starts with numbers 1-10 on them. Then I made a matching set with corresponding dots on them. The kids could play with them and try to match the numbers with the dots.

Thanks for stopping by to check us out. I always have a great time at storytime and I appreciate that you took time to look at what we do.

Mr. Mike