The children are still really focused on learning about space in the Discovery Room. This morning we revisited the solar system. The children counted confidently that there are eight planets. Looking at pictures we tried to remember the names of all these planets.
“I know that’s Mercury because it’s the grey one!”
”Mars is the big red dot!!!”
The children decided Mars looked like the most exciting planet and got busy making a spaceship that would take them there!
”We can all sit in this big box!”
The children used their cutting, gluing and sticking skills to prepare parts of their spaceship! They had great conversations with each other about what they needed to make a super fast spaceship.
”I’m cutting the buttons for the front!”
We decided to decorate the ship with bright colours so that it would be seen in the sky! The children choose to use pom poms, sparkles and coloured paper.
“The spaceship needs fire to make it fly!”
The children added red coloured paper cut like flames to the back so that the spaceship would blast off!
”It needs to fly super fast, wooooooooooosh!”
We added some finishing touches and then jumped in to set off on our journey! 3,2,1 blast off!!!!
”I can go from side to side!”
Some of the children decided they wanted to cut holes in the bottom of the spaceship so that they could actually move it around!
”Weeeeeeeeee look we can fly to Space! Let’s go to Mars!”
What a fantastic idea that was, how inventive and imaginative! What great fun everyone had taking turns to steer the spaceship around Cartmill!
Article 28 – You have the right to Education
