Dear Parents,
I hope your student is enjoying our journey through space. We have explored the idea of orbit: that the Moon orbits Earth and that there are planets and comets and space rocks that orbit the Sun. We made craters with balls of different densities and traveling from different trajectories and speeds of impact. It was messy fun! (Flour can be quite dusty.) We’ve talked about phases of the moon and learned about gravity.
We conducted an alien hunt with sight word craters. We took turns seeing if our little Martian was hiding in the “the” crater or “on” craters. We will continue this game throughout the month. I am sending home a paper today with all the sight words we’ll practice sounding out and becoming familiar with over the next few months. If you’d like to practice at home, great. Please just have fun with the page and encourage your student to color it.
I’m also sending home a fantastic, fun way to encourage your little one to look up at night. I saved this theme and activity in particular for January as it gets dark so early that I hope this will not affect bedtimes. : )
We will begin learning about Astronauts, NASA and constellations this week.
Thank you!
Megan Millington
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