Summer camp is the best! We get to do ALL of my ideas without worrying about schedule.
This morning we gathered for rocket launch at 0900 hours.
Before blasting off we did a little research with some galaxy-doh.
We built pattern block rockets...
and bristle block rockets. These are blasting off!
After we got dressed in our space suits and boarded the shuttle, it was time for a countdown. We read a story about astronauts and discovered what they use many of their tools for.
During our space stations we built rocket names.
Made 3-d planets,
and straw rockets.
Finally, it was time for the astronauts to eat. We talked a lot about what it must be like to eat in space. We wondered aloud what would happen when you poured milk without gravity. We though about what astronauts do with their trash. We are thinking that they reuse things quite a bit.
We know that the astronauts can't go to the grocery store in space, so they have to take dried foods and other shelf stable items with them to eat.
Today we ate like astronauts. We made pudding in a bag.
Each child added milk to their bag of powdered pudding and mixed away until it was nice and ready. Our pudding turned out to be delicious. We reused our milk cups to pour our pudding in. Way to recycle!
During free choice centers we read stories in the rocket ship, built aliens, and explored moon sand.
Stay tuned for a few more from today...
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