Tuesday, June 23, 2015

Solar System Unit

  
Space is the physical universe beyond Earth!
Earth is the planet we live on. 
 
Astronauts are people that take rocket ships to space.

June 1983 Sally Ride 
The first American Woman Astronaut to fly to space.

 
"Astronauts put on suits"
"They get their launches!"
"They put their helmets on."
"They play with sparkles and flowers."
"They go to outer space."
"They collect stuff."
"They go to outer space and eat food in their rocket ship!"
"Jet backpacks!"
"They wear space suits and also they also wear a rocket vest.They also have rocketships."



 
Vocabulary
Solar System
Astronaut
Planets
 galaxy
Stars
Space probe
asteroids
comets
 
The sun is a star.
The sun is round.
The sun is as big as one million Earths. 
 Rocket Ships
A rocket ship is an engine that burns fuel. The engine turns the fuel into hot gas. The gas makes the rocket move forward. A rocket does not need air. A rocket ship works in space where there is no air.

 Spanish Vocabulary
 astronaut = astronauta
sun = el sol
star = estrella
planet = planeta
 sky =el cielo
 
  

 
We packed our space suitcases with:
"ice cream pack"
"ice cream and lolipops"
"lolipops and choclate"
"flowers"
"ice cream"

Blast off!
We built a space shuttle in our sand area.
 

Our friend Roman visited a space museum!!






Thanks for sharing Roman!


 
Music: Adventure in Space by Greg Scelsa
Album: On the Move
link to album
 


 
New Horizon will reach Pluto
on July 14th. Only 21 days away.
Stay tuned by going to this website:
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/newhorizons/main/index.html 

Tuesday, May 26, 2015

Bridges & Tunnels


Tunnels & Bridges



We have bridges on our play yard!


There are tunnels in our community!


Spanish Vocabulary

Bridge = El puente
Tunnel = El tunel
Goat = la cabra
Engineer = ingeniero
Water = agua
Crane = grua
Across = a traves de




Building bridges at school:














Designing bridges: 







Constructing bridges outside:









We read different versions of the 3 Billy Goats Gruff. Students pretended they were goats, and trolls! 
"Who's that tramping over my bridge?"
"I am going to gobble you up!"
"Poof be gone troll!" 












Family picnic in search of bridges in our community!