Space - Day 2

Sad News  - I can not find any of the pictures I took from this day.  I'm so sorry! I have the video from our Math, though.

Reading Core Standard Reading 8
Preparation
Create a solar system on a large piece of paper labeling the sun and each of the 8 planets. Leave room on or next to each planet to record information learned.
Materials
Solar system paper
Pen
The Planets  by Gail Gibbons
Teaching
1.  Read the book The Planets by Gail Gibbons.
2.After reading return to the book and look at each page.  Have your child tell you one or more things he learned about that planet.  Record what he learned on or in the planet.

Phonics Core Standard Phonemic Awareness 2.d.,e.
Preparation
Write the word "Planet" on a piece of paper. Cut into individual letters.
Materials
Cut up word
Teaching
1. Have your child use the letters from the word "Planets" to create the following words in order.
2. at, pat, sat, set, pet, let, net, ten, pen, pan, tan, tap, lap, sap, nap
3. When you teach this say, "Make the word "at."
4. "Add a letter to make "Pat."
5."Change a letter to make "sat." Etc.

Writing Core Standard 1.a.
Preparation
Materials
Computer
 Teaching
1. As you read books this week keep an ABC book of words that you learned about space.
2. Help your child type words into computer to form an ABC book.
3.  Have your child find pictures on internet, or print out pages and have your child draw pictures for each letter.
**You'll be working on this book a little each day, don't try to finish in one day, in fact it may take other sessions through out the day to complete the book.**

Our ABC List:


B - Bright
C- COnstellation
D - Distance
E- Earth
F - Far
G- Galaxy, gravity, Ganymede
H - Hot, huge
I - Io, iron
J - Jupiter
K - Kirkwood Gap (we needed help on this one!)
L - Light, life
M - Milky way, Mars, Mercury, Moon
N - Neptune
O - Orbit
P - Planet
Q - QUick
R - Rotate, rings
S - Solar System, sun, stars, Saturn
T - Titon, telescope
U - Universe, Uranus
V - Venus
W - Water
X - X Marks the spot (I know , we had to stretch it for X! What did you use?)
Y - Years
Z - Zero, Zenith

Math Core Standard - Operations and Algebraic Thinking 4
Preparation
Materials
Deck of cards, jacks, quenns, and kings removed

Teaching
1. Shuffle cards and deal 5 cards to each player.
2. Players go through their cards to see if they can put two cards together  to make ten (4+6, 5+5, etc)
3.  Players ask each other for cards to make ten (Example: If a player has a seven they ask the other player for a three)
4.  If other player doesn't have card asked for then player will "go fish" for another card.
5.  When player has two cards that equal ten they have a match and get to keep it.
6.  Player with most matches wins.
Watch how we play here


Art
Preparation
Materials
Black paper
Glue stick
Glitter
Circles cut out of colored paper
Ellipses cut out of colored paper, with center cut out (these become rings for the plantets)

Teaching
1. Have child rub glue stick all over paper.
2.  Have child sprinkle glitter all over paper.
3.  Have child arrange plantes all over paper.
Voila!  A solar system!